casting news from next Batman film; "Gotham"

i will keep on my heels....thank you.

and exactly why he may do something like this.....he hasnt done it before.

regardless gangs of new york was a big film, big actors, big director and he did it.....dunno why its hard to believe he would do the next batman?

 

yes, but gangs of new york was a highly dramatic role. most of his roles are highly dramatic roles. i just don't see him jumping into fantastic action. doesn't seem to fit his forte.

 

his role doesnt need to be action.....in the link i posted above it says how the riddler usually is never beaten by batman with force....but with thought....that could be very interesting imo

 

its batman though
i see how he would be good in a psychotic role. i just don't see him doing it as it doesn't fit what roles he seems to have already done. as more dramatic as batman is, it is not as dramatic as the roles lewis has taken before.

 

Im guessing Anthony Hopkins would be a little to hokey considering the lecter thing, not to mention too old.

Couldnt agree more on not putting a cluster of villians in it, and please no one dare to play that joker role...

A Robin?

Should be interesting this newest Batman movies have been great dont wanna se it ruined.


I think Day-Lewis would bring the "darkness" to the role that it may need.

 

Actually there were a FEW things I liked about her.

That was Lee Meriwether, bro.

You're not alone. I dug DeVito's version.

 

I'd prefer Depp over Lewis.

Not to say that Lewis isn't a great actor, but I just think Depp would be a better fit.

 

I always thought they could bring back Rachel to be Catwoman. She's somehow survived the explosion and is now pyschotic and revenge obsessed after batman doesn't save her.
Plus she is the only woman who knows batman's true identity.It would involve some make believe but that's what comics are.

 

Or Leo.

 

I'd strongly consider bringing back the Joker and letting Joseph Gordon-Levitt take on the role. I think he is a pretty good actor and he looks like Ledger. Or is it just me?

 

Looks like him, but I don't think he's a good enough actor to match Ledger's performance.

Not that I thought Ledger was that good before the movie either though.

 

Its certainly questionable whether he could pull off a comparable performance. I'm going off a small sample size when I say I think he is a good actor. I wasn't completely sold on Ledger either. So who knows. As long as Nolan is involved and happy with the casting I'll have faith.

In a way I kind of want to let Ledger's performance stand on its own and kind of leave the character alone out of respect. But the character they created is bigger than the actor playing him. And its such a great character that its hard to just set him to the side and forget about him.

 

Thanks. They looked A LOT alike.

Newmar

Meriwether

 

The Depp as Riddler, Jolie as Catwoman and Hoffman as Penguin rumors have been around since The Dark Knight was released. They're just rumors. I highly doubt any of those actors would be cast in those roles. Nolan likes to cast somewhat unknown actors for his movies.

There won't be another Joker in Nolan's Batman series, it has been reported that originally The Joker was going to be in the third movie but once Heath died, those plans were trashed. Nolan doesn't want to put anyone in a position to do another Joker so soon.

And no Rachel is dead. Nolan's Batman is as realistic and believable as possible. Plus by Rachel surviving it makes everything Harvey Dent did in TDK pointless and meaningless. Plus it would go against a lot of the mythos built up with the Catwoman character in the comics (I'm not saying the movies should be exactly like the comics but you can't have a Catwoman who's not Selina Kyle).

Again all of the casting rumors right now are a little premature since we don't even know if Nolan is coming back to the series or not.

 

Bringing back the Joker would be a HUGE mistake imo.

 

Agree.

There's just no way they could ever do right by the way Ledger left it.

Even if it was good, it'd never be as good as what anyone wanted.


Plus I think the Riddler could be really good.

 

The problem with using The Joker character so soon (I'm not one of these fanboys that are saying never to use the character ever again because the character is bigger than Ledger and who's to say in 20 years someone else won't do as good of a job if not better than Ledger) is that the actor who's going to play him will be kind of forced to do a Heath Ledger Joker impression instead of making the character his own. No actor would want to do that. And no matter what it's going to be compaired to Heath. The actor would be in a no win situation from the start.

 

Yeah isnt he like 5'8?

It wont happen

 

Stallone is only like 5"7 and 150lbs

Just sayin.

 

The majority of the actors in Hollywood are around that size. Have you ever seen Kiefer Sutherland or Michael Cukilis up close? You'd never believe they could be a bad *** in real life as they are on TV because they're so small.

 

that would be fantastic

 

Batman 3 has gotten the green light and they have already started scouting sites on where to film:

According to Batman on Film, it looks as if the Batman franchise is returning to Chicago. Batman Begins and The Dark Knight both filmed there, and Batman on Film received a tip that location scouting has begun in the windy city. Here is the part of the tip that they published…

"[They] have been out and about in Chicago's Financial District."

 

I'd kind of like to see them turn the guy who wanted to blackmail Batman, into the riddler. His name was Mr. Reese (mysteries) and the huge public humiliation he suffered could send him over the edge. Just saying.

 

they must be having batman fight bernie madoff.......

batman versus the ponzi scheme from hell!!

 

I love the new line of Batmans...best ever imo.

But Christian Bale's "voice" when he is Batman is kind of annoying. Ofcourse Ledger was far and away the heart and soul of the Dark Knight, so whoever the Riddler is better be damn good.

I still like Daniel Day-Lewis for the part.

 

It would, but it would stray too far from the origins of the character.

This has been beaten to death. He HAD to have that annoying voice. When you're the city's most famous resident, you have to leave NO trace of who you are if you're a masked crime-fighter.

 

My problem with it is he decided to use the Batman voice in Terminator 4.

 

On the Batman on Film podcast word is that they don't expect an official announcement that Nolan is back until sometime either before or after Nolan's next movie Inception is released so Warner Brothers can try to use the Batman hype to make people go and see his new movie. But Nolan, along with his brother Jonathan and David Goyer are all back. They're also speculating based on how WB handled 'The Dark Knight' official announcement/press release, that when they officially announce Batman 3, that they will confirm who's been cast as the next villian as well as the title to the next movie. As of right now no one has any idea who or what characters will be included in the next film.

Again and I can't stress this enough if you like Batman, you NEED to check out Batmanonfilm.com, it's simply outstanding.

 

With flying cars and a carbonite outfit you would think he could get a really high tech device to disguise his voice.

 

Some possibly Batman 3 news/rumors from a very good source:

Batman-on-Film is reporting the rumor that Emily Blunt passed on Captain America to play Selina Kyle (aka Catwoman) in Batman 3. The site emphasizes that as of now this is a rumor, but also notes that Blunt was considered for the role of Rachel Dawes in The Dark Knight, which of course went to Maggie Gyllenhaal.

Here's the link: http://www.batman-on-film.com/BATMAN-3_rumor_emily-blunt-eyeing-B3_4-3-10.html

Interesting, I think everyone assumes that Catwoman will probably be in the next film since Bruce would need a new love interest and there was also a possible hint that Catwoman would be in the next film when Lucuis Fox told Bruce that the new suit would protect him against cats (of course that line could have been a little wink for the fan boys).

 

Robi... Ro... Rob... Robin?

This totally conjures up some terrible memories from Batman-movie past...

 

Robin will never be in a Christopher Nolan Batman film. He's gone on record starting hundreds of times that he hates the character as he feels it softens and tones down the Batman character.

 

Bat Nipples.

 

Edit: I realized I was commented on posts from almost 2 years ago. What I get for only reading the first page of the thread. So, deleted.

That said, Daniel Day Lewis would be SICK for a role as a twisted character i.e. Riddler in batman. Would LOVE that

 

as awesome as that would be, DDL only appears in a movie every 5 years or so.

 

This is rather late as a comment, but it just occurred to me that that's exactly what Green Arrow does on Smallville.

 

Next Batman Film Slated for July 2012 Release

http://www.seattlepi.com/movies/419318_tvgmovies30.html?source=rss

 

inception looks ****ing sick

 

We should start to be hearing about any casting/characters around July/August if past history repeats itself. I'm pretty excited though that a date has finally been announced.