The Batman enlists Barry Keoghan as Gotham cop Stanley Merkel

Warner Bros. debuted the (very good) first trailer for Matt Reeves’ The Batman over the weekend during the virtual DC FanDome event, which gave news outlets all kinds of fun things to write about—like our first look at James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad (you can tell all these movies are different from the other DC movies because they have “The” in the title) and whatever the hell is going on with Colin Farrell’s Penguin in The Batman (he looks like Tom Wilkinson?). Something that apparently everyone failed to mention during The Batman portion of the event was the late casting addition of Barry Keoghan. As revealed in a press release sent out after the event and obtained by /Film, Keoghan has signed on to play a motherfuckin’ cop in The Batman—specifically Officer Stanley Merkel, a character who appeared in the comic book Batman: Year Two as Commissioner James Gordon’s first partner. It’s unclear if Keoghan’s Merkel will be included in flashbacks or if the character has been refashioned for the new film, which features Jeffrey Wright as Gordon.