Bruce Wayne TV series

Bruce Wayne was a planned television series focusing on a young Bruce Wayne before he became Batman . The series was originally intended to be a pilot, but was later shelved in favor of the planned film Batman: Year One . It was later rethought and turned into the television series Smallville . Fox aired Gotham, which focuses on a young Bruce Wayne and James Gordon, from 2014 until 2019 . It is unknown who would have starred in the show, but Shawn Ashmore, who later went on to play Bobby Drake in X-Men, X2, X-Men: The Last Stand and X-Men: Days of Future Past, was heavily rumored to be in negotiations about playing Bruce . It supposedly featured Aaron Eckhart (who would go on to play Harvey Dent in The Dark Knight) as Jim Gordon, and several actors, including Ben Affleck .