Sebastian Stan cast as Harvey Dent in Matt Reeves' Batman sequel

Sebastian Stan will play Harvey Dent, also known as Two-Face, in Matt Reeves' forthcoming sequel to The Batman, the Hollywood Reporter cautiously announced this week. The arrival of Dent in Gotham is rarely without consequence in Batman sagas. The article notes Tommy Lee Jones’ loud, neon-splashed Batman Forever turn reduced the character to a dissociative identity slot machine, while Billy Dee Williams’ 1989 take was read as a promise of future ruin.

In Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight, Aaron Eckhart’s fall as a crusading district attorney signalled the dangers of placing too much faith in the moral resilience of one individual in a city already under strain. The piece argues Stan is well suited to Reeves’ vision of Gotham, an urban rot that spreads quietly from within.

Reeves’ Gotham, the article says, is unlikely to produce a Two-Face given to extreme, scenery-chewing theatricality; Stan is described as an actor who excels at portraying men whose morality erodes slowly, which matches Reeves’ languid, doom-drenched city. The article suggests this version of Dent might follow the character’s gradual slide into villainy rather than a single violent "snap": a figure for whom justice is stripped of empathy rather than chaos dressed up as madness.

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