With the majority of its core cast already announced, the upcoming DC Universe exclusive Doom Patrol series has found its Robotman.

Courtesy of Deadline, Brendan Fraser has landed the Cliff Steele gig. Fraser is no stranger to genre fans, of course, with him best known for the likes of The Mummy, Airheads, George of the Jungle, Crash, and The Passion of Darkly Noon.

The current word on the Steele character has him pegged as a former race car driver who was in a wreck so bad that it rendered his body uninhabitable. The leader of the Doom Patrol – Niles Caulder/aka the Chief – saves Steele’s brain and places it inside a swanky robotic body.

In Doom Patrol, Fraser will appear as Cliff Steele in flashback scenes, while also lending his vocals to Robotman in the present day of the show. Riley Shanahan will be providing the mo-cap work for Robotoman.

Fraser and Shanahan join a cast that includes Bruno Bichir as the Chief, April Bowlby as Elasti-Girl, and Diane Guerrero as Crazy Jane, roles for Jack Michaels and Dwain Murphy, and Doctor Who’s Joivan Wade as Cyborg.

The current blurb on Doom Patrol reads:

Doom Patrol is a reimagining of one of DC’s most beloved group of outcast superheroes: Robotoman, Negative Man, Elasti-Girl, and Crazy Jane, led by modern-day mad scientist Dr Niles Caulder (The Chief). The Doom Patrol’s members each suffered horrible accident that gave them superhuman abilities – but also left them scarred and disfigured. Traumatized and downtrodden, the team found purpose through The Chief, who brought them together to investigate the weirdest phenomena in existence – and to protect Earth from what they find.

The Doom Patrol team will debut in the fifth episode of DC Universe’s Titans, before then spinning off to get their own thirteen-episode series.

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