Gary Oldman Offers J.K. Simmons

 

It was recently revealed that Oscar winning actor J.K. Simmons will play Commissioner Jim Gordon in Justice League, however, the actor has some big shoes to fill following Gary Oldman’s superb turn as the character, but he recently weighed in on both the casting and what makes Gordon special.

He said “The thing you’ve just got to get used to with Gordon is he’s a really sound detective, first of all. And he’s really incorruptible, which is a kind of wonderful quality to play and sort of, like, true blue. He’s like a Watson, oddly. He’s sort of like Watson to Sherlock, is Gordon to Batman.”

After appearing in Justice League, Simmons will presumably take on an even more significant role in Ben Affleck’s long rumoured Batman movie. Early on in Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice‘s production, rumours started doing the rounds that The Joker killed Gordon in the DC Films Universe, but those claims were obviously way off.