{"id":7676,"date":"2014-10-17T23:54:02","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T23:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/?p=7676"},"modified":"2014-10-27T21:12:15","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T21:12:15","slug":"jena-malone-play-robin-batman-vs-superman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/jena-malone-play-robin-batman-vs-superman\/","title":{"rendered":"Jena Malone to Play Robin in Batman vs Superman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/jenna-malone-robin.png\" rel=\"prettyphoto\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/jenna-malone-robin.png\" alt=\"Jenna Malone Robin\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7688\" srcset=\"https:\/\/\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/jenna-malone-robin.png 1000w, https:\/\/\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/jenna-malone-robin-300x180.png 300w, https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/jenna-malone-robin-150x90.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Is Jena Malone the new Robin?<\/h2>\n<p>A local news station in Detroit, Michigan reported that the <strong>Robin <\/strong>character in <b>Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice<\/b> will be played by a female, after speaking to an extra who was on set at Michigan State University.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jena Malone<\/strong> will reportedly be playing Carrie Kelley, the female Robin, in the film. Malone has been seen on set at Warner Bros. and is sporting red hair, much like Carrie Kelly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/carrie-kelly2.png\" rel=\"prettyphoto\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin:15px 15px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/carrie-kelly2.png\" alt=\"Carrie Kelly\" width=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7692\" srcset=\"https:\/\/\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/carrie-kelly2.png 344w, https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/carrie-kelly2-195x300.png 195w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 344px) 100vw, 344px\" \/><\/a>With the film loosely inspired by Frank Miller&#8217;s <i>The Dark Knight Returns<\/i>, it&#8217;s not surprising that Carrie Kelley &#8211; the female Robin &#8211; would make an appearance. And with Malone&#8217;s acting chops and previous experience with Snyder, she makes the right choice for Kelley.<\/p>\n<p>All previous iterations of the Bat&#8217;s sidekick were played by men so it&#8217;s <i>huge<\/i> that we might finally be seeing a female Robin. This news comes shortly after D<a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/2014\/10\/16\/warner-bros-unveils-dc-comics-film-slate\/\" target=\"_blank\">C Entertainment unveiled its film slate through 2020<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Warner Bros. declined to comment on this news but the anonymous extra who spoke to WILX-10 News faced a hefty $5 million fine after signing a non-disclosure agreement.<\/p>\n<p>In the comics, Carrie Kelley is saved by an elder <a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/hitlist.asp?theme=Batman&#038;id=EN-407186506\" target=\"_blank\">Batman <\/a>and spurred to wear a Robin costume in an attempt to find Batman again. She becomes Robin III by earning the right to fight along him. Kelley first appears in <i>The Dark Knight Returns<\/i> and Kelley later takes up the mantle &#8216;Catgirl.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of Carrie Kelley joining the team as the new Robin? Would you cast Jena Malone as Robin? Tell us in the comments!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/the-dark-knight-returns.png\" rel=\"prettyphoto\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/the-dark-knight-returns.png\" alt=\"The Dark Knight Returns\" width=\"985\" height=\"1100\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7689\" srcset=\"https:\/\/\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/the-dark-knight-returns.png 985w, https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/the-dark-knight-returns-268x300.png 268w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 985px) 100vw, 985px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is Jena Malone the new Robin? A local news station in Detroit, Michigan reported that the Robin character in Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice will be played by a female, after speaking to an extra who was on set at Michigan State University. Jena Malone will reportedly be playing Carrie Kelley, the female Robin, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":7688,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[388,558],"tags":[118,155,1179,1181,438,3145,112,1180,121,763],"yst_prominent_words":[5950,12550,12545,5990,5989,12552,12547,6413,12553,12546,12548,5992,12551,12549,8534,8124],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7676"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7676"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=7676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}