Now we know who will be in the booth with Dwayne Johnson for "DC's League of Super-Pets" (known as the Legion of Super-Pets in the books back in the Silver Age), and this is a doozy.
We know the People's Movie Star will voice Krypto. Frequent co-star Kevin Hart (i.e. "Jumanji") will be Ace, the Bat-Hound (prepare to cringe). The cast also includes John Krasinski (ex-The Office), Natasha Lyonne, Kate McKinnon (Saturday Night Live), and Keanu Reeves, who already has claimed his geek card by co-authoring his first comic book, BRZRKR, which debuted a few weeks back.
Why Hart was plugged in as Ace, I don't know. If they wanted Ace to be just as serious as his master, the Batman, then Reeves would've been a better choice. They're expanding the group to include Jumpa, Wonder Woman's pet kangaroo, probably not seen since the Silver Age, for all we know, and Topo, Aquaman's octopus pal. (What? No Tusky?)
The movie debuts May 22, 2022, in theatres, and likely also on HBO Max.
4 comments:
I would have cast either Diedrich Bader or Scott McNeil to voice Ace the Bat Hound, but that's me. Kevin Hart's on-screen persona is too loud and excitable for me to picture him playing the pet equivalent to Batman.
Bader would be good. So would Will Arnett.
The casting of Kevin Hart as Ace is likely just stunt-casting. Maybe we'll be pleasantly surprised, but to be honest, I'm getting kind of tired of seeing Kevin Hart show up in so many recent animated movies.
Hart's actually giving drama a try with another film due soon, "Borderlands", so who knows.
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