Energy Rangers and Stranger Issues star Dacre Montgomery has followers questioning if the actor is up for the position of Batman protégé Dick Grayson aka Nightwing in Warner Brothers’ DC Cinematic Universe.

Montgomery posted an image of Nightwing — and not using a caption — to his Twitter and Instagram accounts late Saturday evening. Each posts have since been deleted. Montgomery’s tweet obtained a whole bunch of retweets and greater than a thousand likes earlier than it was eliminated.

Warner Bros. is planning to carry a solo Nightwing film to the large display beneath The LEGO Batman Film director Chris McKay, who has instructed the film might forego a standard origin story and nonetheless check out the previous Robin “rising up” into his personal man — and his personal superhero — as Nightwing, the protector of Blüdhaven.

McKay took to Twitter in late September to announce the position has but to be solid. “We’re taking our time,” McKay wrote. “We’re going to solid a large internet as a result of we have to discover the proper particular person. We have to get the script proper. We want this film to blow your thoughts.”

In fact, the scenario might have modified in additional than a month’s time: Montgomery might have nabbed the position (helped alongside by his turns in Energy Rangers and the lately launched and extremely standard Stranger Issues 2), or he may very well be throwing his hat within the ring by way of social media, as many actors are likely to do in terms of extremely coveted superhero roles.

Hypothesis beforehand tied American Horror Story actor Finn Wittrock to the position.