Ishilove:

Van Damme also received a similar training and he is a way better actor. What of former WWE fighters like The Rock and Dave Bautista who are life long athletes but are fantastic actors, especially the Rock?

Let's face it. Steven Seagal is a terrible actor

Nickshrapnel:
Did he appear in X-men? I thought he was used only as a stunt double

Ishilove:

Van Damme also received a similar training and he is a way better actor. What of former WWE fighters like The Rock and Dave Bautista who are life long athletes but are fantastic actors, especially the Rock?

Let's face it. Steven Seagal is a terrible actor

armadeo:


He was the frog guy in the first xmen I think.

SalomonKane:
Lol. I find this funny. Like Scott Adkins playing the play boy cape crusader.

voltron14:



Let me add that Terry Crews was a professional NFL player before delving into acting.

kendrick93:
I mean i wouldn't call Dave a fantastic actor....
The Rock knows what works for him and sticks to it

Ishilove:

I have never found the Rock wanting in any of his roles and somehow has avoided been typecast as the guy with the mean face, loud voice and big muscles.

kendrick93:
Batman needs fresh ideas...
Batman is a skilled martial fighter but I don't think any of the movies has done enough justice to that.... The closest we got was Ben affleck version which was why most fans insist he was the perfect batman realistically....
Nolan trilogy while great was terrible in fight choreography...
Adkins would have been a very good candidate for this role

DandeNumeruno:


very very very underrated.

some people seems think that he can't act but this guy is always solid in every movie i've seen him in.

i wonder what his haters will say if they see him in AVENGEMENT (2019).

kendrick93:
Batman needs fresh ideas...
Batman is a skilled martial fighter but I don't think any of the movies has done enough justice to that.... The closest we got was Ben affleck version which was why most fans insist he was the perfect batman realistically....
Nolan trilogy while great was terrible in fight choreography...
Adkins would have been a very good candidate for this role

mekaprime:


My guy forget that thing, asides martial arts movies, your guy would suck horribly in any other genre. Just imagine Adkins in a Comedy, Drama or Romance movie, even as a voice actor, he'd suck horribly. Just imagine these scenarios and tell yourself the gospel truth.
And you can't really compare him to statham. Adkins is very rigid with his act, he carries out all his act with so much seriousness & tension. Statham on the other hand is always very flexible with his act.

JeromeBlack:



Can Statham do romance movies? He can only act as a hardman with funny lines.

Batman movies are action movies with a lot of brooding from batman himself. That is Adkins forte

mekaprime:


My guy forget that thing, asides martial arts movies, your guy would suck horribly in any other genre. Just imagine Adkins in a Comedy, Drama or Romance movie, even as a voice actor, he'd suck horribly. Just imagine these scenarios and tell yourself the gospel truth.
And you can't really compare him to statham. Adkins is very rigid with his act, he carries out all his act with so much seriousness & tension. Statham on the other hand is always very flexible with his act.

kendrick93:
Batman needs fresh ideas...
Batman is a skilled martial fighter but I don't think any of the movies has done enough justice to that.... The closest we got was Ben affleck version which was why most fans insist he was the perfect batman realistically....
Nolan trilogy while great was terrible in fight choreography...
Adkins would have been a very good candidate for this role

JeromeBlack:



Can Statham do romance movies? He can only act as a hardman with funny lines.

Batman movies are action movies with a lot of brooding from batman himself. That is Adkins forte

mekaprime:


As regards the bolded, that's not the point. The comparison between both actors are as regards the flexibility with which they act.

Thanks for pointing out that Statham acts as a hardman with funny lines, that's called flexibility, irrespective of him playing the role of a hard man, he knows when to induce comic relief with his funny lines. while Adkins is all damn serious all the time.

Adkins can be the stunt man that plays Batman, am sure ok with that. But as for Bruce Wayne, am sorry sire, he can never be Bruce Wayne.

SalomonKane:
well you have a point. Don't forget Batman has dual personality. He's a playboy and a vigilante. While I feel Adkins can match Batman's martial art skill, I honestly don't think he can come close to Bruce Wayne's playboy theatrics.

I really believe it'll be hard to find a human being on this earth who can readily combine both role into one, effortlessly.

mekaprime:


As regards the bolded, that's not the point. The comparison between both actors are as regards the flexibility with which they act.

Thanks for pointing out that Statham acts as a hardman with funny lines, that's called flexibility, irrespective of him playing the role of a hard man, he knows when to induce comic relief with his funny lines. while Adkins is all damn serious all the time.

Adkins can be the stunt man that plays Batman, am sure ok with that. But as for Bruce Wayne, am sorry sire, he can never be Bruce Wayne.

JeromeBlack:


Arrant nonsense. Ben Affleck is the perfect batman? Fat batman?

Also, the fight with Bane in the dark knight rises was both physically and psychologically deep.


The only thing I agree with you is that Scott Adkins could be a batman. He has an angry face worthy of apathy and darkness- that is the true essence of batman. That is why i loved Christian Bale as batman

Ishilove:

Van Damme also received a similar training and he is a way better actor. What of former WWE fighters like The Rock and Dave Bautista who are life long athletes but are fantastic actors, especially the Rock?

Let's face it. Steven Seagal is a terrible actor

DandeNumeruno:


jason is not flexible bro. flexibility is when you have range to delve into other genre that are not your niche and do them very well. jason is not that guy. he only ever plays a villain or anti hero, the sort of role someone like adkins will thrive in too.

they are the same kind of actors, the only difference is jason has access to better scripts that brings out his best attributes, while adkins only have access to cheesy scripts synonymous with b flicks.

just waka go online and you'll see numerous articles by movie nerds wondering why adkins hasn't played batman yet. he's perfect for that role, it's his forte.

just watch this video. the montage starts at 04:09....


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynbnSykhV8I

if you still think he can't play batman after watching this, then you're just keen on being a hater.

rumour has it that if ben affleck had turned down the batman role in SUPERMAN VS BATMAN, WB would have offered adkins the role.

i remember when people used to say henry cavill can't act (just because he was a b-lister), now his haters have all gone mute.

DandeNumeruno:


jason is not flexible bro. flexibility is when you have range to delve into other genre that are not your niche and do them very well. jason is not that guy. he only ever plays a villain or anti hero, the sort of role someone like adkins will thrive in too.

they are the same kind of actors, the only difference is jason has access to better scripts that brings out his best attributes, while adkins only have access to cheesy scripts synonymous with b flicks.

just waka go online and you'll see numerous articles by movie nerds wondering why adkins hasn't played batman yet. he's perfect for that role, it's his forte.

just watch this video. the montage starts at 04:09....


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynbnSykhV8I

if you still think he can't play batman after watching this, then you're just keen on being a hater.

rumour has it that if ben affleck had turned down the batman role in SUPERMAN VS BATMAN, WB would have offered adkins the role.

i remember when people used to say henry cavill can't act (just because he was a b-lister), now his haters have all gone mute.

mekaprime:


You're still mixing things up here, by Funny lines, i wasn't referring to Batman, everybody knows the caped crusader doesn't joke a bit.
By flexibility, in relation to the two actors, I wasn't referring to flexibility as regards genre, i mean striking a balance between seriousness & humor.

You said that he can act because he's always solid in every movie you've seen in him, well, if it's martial arts movies, i kinda concur. But what really shocked me was the other lady said, & I quote Adkins has not been on a good romance movie.

mekaprime:

Adkins has the Batman kinda physique, his fighting skills are very good, but the honest truth is that Adkins can't act sh.it. Acting goes beyond reading or reciting some script. Well, before you come up with the "Adkins has a brooding personality" , being Batman goes beyond having just a brooding personality.
A good act requires character building( at this point, the actors original personality, ceases to exist, what exists is the character which he has given life to), amazing empathetic cognitive orientation, lively dialogue etc.

mekaprime:

Why is Bale considered the best Batman ever? Well with Bale, he becomes the character in toto, from his facial expressions, his gestures, his dialogues, his body movement, you literally feel what he feels. You feel the darkness within him, his pains, his anguish, beneath his smile, you see the sadness & regrets, the responsibility.

mekaprime:

Before Affleck was cast for Batman vs Superman, Adkins was called in for an audition for the role of the caped crusader, guess what? It ended there & he wasn't chosen. So why wasn't he chosen? Another opportunity comes yet again, yet he wasn't called for an audition talk more of been chosen. So again, why wasn't he chosen this time?. I'll be glad if you can give me a different answer.

mekaprime:

If Adkins were to be Batman, he'd have been, some years back and not now. Now that every studio, every director is itching to get their hands on the Oscars & you're seriously suggesting they cast Adkins, That's quite laughable. And with the amount of success DC currently has, they'll want to stay on top, thus, they'd always go for best of the best and nothing more.

mekaprime:


You're still mixing things up here, by Funny lines, i wasn't referring to Batman, everybody knows the caped crusader doesn't joke a bit.
By flexibility, in relation to the two actors, I wasn't referring to flexibility as regards genre, i mean striking a balance between seriousness & humor.

DandeNumeruno:





huge lie bro. where the hell did you hear that

he never officially auditioned for the role, besides, WB has already contracted ben affleck as their batman

after the dismal box office performance of both BvS and JL, WB announced that it's looking for a younger batman for the future. adkins is 43 years so this effectively eliminated him from auditioning for the role. very unfortunate because he was one of fan favorites to land the role prior to the WB's announcement.

Nickshrapnel:
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DandeNumeruno:

this is how people fail exams. they don't read properly.

i know he auditioned, i posted his audition video this morning ffs.
i said he didn't audition OFFICIALLY.

meaning he didn't audition in the traditional sense (face to face audition) like mekaprime implied.

Nickshrapnel:
You said WB had already contracted Affleck before Scott’s audition which contradicts the screenshot I posted