Alec Baldwin's near miss as Batman's Trump-like dad is stranger than fiction

3:52am PDT - September 5th, 2018    joaquin phoenix - The Guardian (AU)

The allure of Gotham turned on its head is powerful, but is a republican Thomas Wayne just stunt-casting? Alec Baldwin was briefly lined up to play a Trump-like version of Thomas Wayne (AKA Batman’s dad) in DC’s upcoming Jokermovie, starring Joaquin Phoenix a…