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

Montgomery posted an image of Nightwing — with no caption — to his Twitter and Instagram accounts late Saturday night time. Each posts have since been deleted. Montgomery’s tweet obtained lots of 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 massive display underneath The LEGO Batman Film director Chris McKay, who has steered 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 function has but to be forged. “We’re taking our time,” McKay wrote. “We’re going to forged a large internet as a result of we have to discover the proper individual. We have to get the script proper. We want this film to blow your thoughts.”

After all, the scenario might have modified in additional than a month’s time: Montgomery might have nabbed the function (helped alongside by his turns in Energy Rangers and the just lately launched and extremely well-liked Stranger Issues 2), or he may very well be throwing his hat within the ring through 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 function.