Rock. Notably, Farrell has played Oz Cobb / Penguin in the 2022 superhero feature The Batman and its 2024 streaming spin-off The Penguin. He is slated to reprise the role in The Batman Part II.

And what better way to do that than with arguably the planet’s biggest superstar playing one of your most powerful superheroes?

Rock - a grizzled but heroic World War II soldier ... so there's definitely superhero precedent. DC Studios is banking on audiences being comfortable with those kinds of well-defined lines either ...