Overview
- Christopher Chulack detailed the casting origin in a new TV Insider interview, which outlets reported this week.
- Chulack recalls Warner Bros. Television presidents Bob Daly and Terry Semel visiting Clooney’s dressing room to tell him, “You’re going to be the next Batman.”
- The ER hour, titled “Hell and High Water,” aired Nov. 9, 1995, and featured Clooney’s character in a high‑profile rescue sequence.
- The episode became one of ER’s most acclaimed, drawing roughly 45 million viewers and earning multiple Emmy nominations plus a Directors Guild award for Chulack.
- Clooney went on to star in 1997’s Batman & Robin, a film widely panned by critics, and he has since joked about the role while briefly resurfacing as Bruce Wayne in 2023’s The Flash.