The next Catwoman is..

[Droford]

http://blog.spout.com/wp-content/uploads/megan-fox-corset.jpg

At least Nolan didn't cast Cher for the role.

[Supreme Olajuwon]

Megan Fox Not Set To Play Catwoman

Originally posted <abbr class="updated">Wednesday August 26, 2009 04:00 PM EDT</abbr>
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Megan Fox (http://www.people.com/people/megan_fox) will have to claw her way into another role.

The sexy starlet, next seen in the thriller Jennifer's Body, has not been cast as Catwoman, PEOPLE confirms.

"It's rumor. It's not true," said a studio rep. "There is no script. There is no project to be cast in."

A British tabloid reported that the Transformers star would be following in the footsteps of Michelle Pfeiffer and Halle Berry (http://www.people.com/people/halle_berry) – donning a catsuit in the next Batman film by director Christopher Nolan – which understandably but unduly created a stir on the Internet.
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[Droford]

Well then good..theres at least a chance it wont be her then.

[G]

god damnit i fucking cannot wait for the sequel

[Jon Kano]

Think he should leave Catwoman character alone, I don't believe it fits in Nolan's Batman. Stick with Johnny Depp as The Riddler.

She can't act for shit.

[Jeritron]

Don't want Johnny Depp to be The Riddler at all really. I just think it attracts too much to the movie, and that's not Nolan's style.

He has shown he doesn't go that route though. Internet casting rumors and dream rumors are the furthest thing from his approach to the characters.

Everyone was all about casting rumors for the Joker. I heard everything from the return of Jack Nicholson, to Steve Buscemi.
Heath Ledger was the absolute LAST candidate on everyones list and look how that went.

Then there were the Ray Liotta as Harvey Dent pipedreams. Nobody saw Aaron Eckhart coming and he was incredible.

Catwoman fits in quite well actually. She's a troubled vigilante and a product of the moral complexity of Gotham.
Keep in mind that Batman's leading lady got blown to hell in the last movie. There WILL be a female lead and probable romantic interest for Batman/Bruce Wayne.
This will more than likely be Catwoman.

I wouldn't mind (or be suprised) if Selena Kyle was cast and introduced in that role, but not used at Catwoman just yet.

[Fignuts]

Yeah, how does catwoman not fit in?

[Penner]

She can't act.

[RP]

http://blog.spout.com/wp-content/uploads/megan-fox-corset.jpg

At least Nolan didn't cast Cher for the role.

If that was walking around in my neighborhood, i'd probably rape it.

[Jon Kano]

Don't want Johnny Depp to be The Riddler at all really. I just think it attracts too much to the movie, and that's not Nolan's style.

He has shown he doesn't go that route though. Internet casting rumors and dream rumors are the furthest thing from his approach to the characters.

Everyone was all about casting rumors for the Joker. I heard everything from the return of Jack Nicholson, to Steve Buscemi.
Heath Ledger was the absolute LAST candidate on everyones list and look how that went.

Then there were the Ray Liotta as Harvey Dent pipedreams. Nobody saw Aaron Eckhart coming and he was incredible.

Catwoman fits in quite well actually. She's a troubled vigilante and a product of the moral complexity of Gotham.
Keep in mind that Batman's leading lady got blown to hell in the last movie. There WILL be a female lead and probable romantic interest for Batman/Bruce Wayne.
This will more than likely be Catwoman.

I wouldn't mind (or be suprised) if Selena Kyle was cast and introduced in that role, but not used at Catwoman just yet.

Eckhart was good, not incredible, come on.

[Jeritron]

No he was incredible. His performance was severely underrated because of the hype surrounding Heath Ledger.

It was an anchor for the movie. His character saw the most change. The movie is essentially about him. He played it amazingly. If it wasn't for his performance the movie wouldn't have worked as well as it did.
I think he was every bit as good in his role as Ledger

[Splaya]

Was watching TV last night and saw a commercial for Eckhart for this movie he is doing with Aniston. Immediately thought "There is Harvey Dent/Two Face". Roles in a movie change how you think about things.

If Heath Ledger doesn't die before this movie, it is SOOOOOOOOOOO tough to say who gives the better performance. But this is considered Ledger's swan song

[Triple Naitch]

:drool:



I'd rather see Jake Gyllenhall as The Riddler.

[Jon Kano]

No he was incredible. His performance was severely underrated because of the hype surrounding Heath Ledger.

It was an anchor for the movie. His character saw the most change. The movie is essentially about him. He played it amazingly. If it wasn't for his performance the movie wouldn't have worked as well as it did.
I think he was every bit as good in his role as Ledger

I disagree.

This is not the first point you have made about Ledger's death hyping the movie or over-shadowing everything else about the film. OK, fair enough, the media made that happen for a while, especially for the average sheep movie goer who fell right into, but at the end of the day, that only happened if you let it. I think of The Dark Knight as 'The Dark Knight', the sequel to Batman Begins, not the 'Heath Ledger Last Full Film Smash' and certainly not a film about Harvey Two Face or Aaron Eckhart's 'incredible' acting ability.

His character was vital to the story and mythology of good vs evil for Nolan's interpretation, and yeah his acting was good. But he simply doesn't match Joker, Ledger or the film's overall power.

[Jon Kano]

I also think Alan Cumming would make a good Riddler, possibly.

[Jeritron]

I disagree.

This is not the first point you have made about Ledger's death hyping the movie or over-shadowing everything else about the film. OK, fair enough, the media made that happen for a while, especially for the average sheep movie goer who fell right into, but at the end of the day, that only happened if you let it. I think of The Dark Knight as 'The Dark Knight', the sequel to Batman Begins, not the 'Heath Ledger Last Full Film Smash' and certainly not a film about Harvey Two Face or Aaron Eckhart's 'incredible' acting ability.

His character was vital to the story and mythology of good vs evil for Nolan's interpretation, and yeah his acting was good. But he simply doesn't match Joker, Ledger or the film's overall power.

The films overall power is him. That's why the climactic scene is about him, not The Joker.
I think the Joker's great, but I think Aaron Eckhart was just as powerful

I am not caught up in Ledger hype when it comes to the film, but you can't deny that it exists and affected everything. Do you truly believe he would have won the academy award without everything surrounding it?
He deserved it, but the academy makes decisions with agendas. There's no way they would have recognized a comic book character, regardless of how powerful the performance was.

I also didn't say it overshadows everything else about the film. I do think that to the mainstream it is the defining element of the movie, though. I don't see how you could think differently if you pay attention to pop culture at all. It was Joker-mania last year.
The film is amazing regardless, but I have no doubt that Two Face became a bit underrated as a result

[Jeritron]

Also, when I say the movie is about Two Face I am not stating an opinion. I'm talking about the facts of how the story is constructed. It's not like I'm contending that it's any less of a Batman movie or anything.
It's just that Batman's arch was mostly set up in the first film.
Joker entered and left the story exactly the same. His character underwent no change. He was a force of nature and affected everyone around him.

I'm simply pointing out that Harvey Dent's character is the focal point of the story. It's his arch. In a literary sense, you could say he's the protagonist of the story. He shares that spot with Batman.
For Batman it's a trial, but for Harvey Dent it's a classic tragedy.

[Jeritron]

That's how Batman works though. Once he's set up as character he really becomes a mainstay that moves through changing plots.

The plots are about the villains, and how he responds to them. That's where Nolan succeeded. He made it more about the trials Batman faces, and went into the details of those characters, rather than create two dimensional baddies for Batman to foil.

[alvarado52]

im hoping the Rachel Weisz rumors turn out to be true, personally.

[Fignuts]

I hope they get Jim carrey back, to be riddler.

[Kalyx triaD]

im hoping the Rachel Weisz rumors turn out to be true, personally.

Agreed. I like her and I think she can bring greatness to Selina Kyle.

[Vastardikai]

http://blog.spout.com/wp-content/uploads/megan-fox-corset.jpg

Wow.

This is incredible.

I can't believe it.

Megan Fox can actually make 2 facial expressions!

[Shadow]

Well when you're in that tight an outfit....

[Vastardikai]

Well when you're in that tight an outfit....

So what you're saying is, this second facial expression is actually her first, with the corset just making her face LOOK different?

[Shadow]

Yes.

[Dave Youell]

Clearly the Riddler should be David Tennant:

http://weblogs.amny.com/entertainment/tangent/blog/dr_who_tennant.jpg

The thing is, because of the insane buzz this one will get, they don't need to blow their load with massive names to fill these roles IMO.

I see no problems with Catwomen either, that totally fits with Nolan's vision, it's the Villians with actual OTT powers that I would imagine he'd stay away from, Poison Ivy, Bane etc.

As for who should be Catwomen, I'll go with Kate Beckinsale

[Fignuts]

You could actually do poison ivy realisticly. She doesn't actually have to have to be a plant woman or anything silly like that.

[Kalyx triaD]

A hot botanist who poisons people would work nicely.

[Icess]

Agreed. With all the hoopla with biological weapons and terrorism, I'd actually think it would be an ideal fit

[Ol Dirty Dastard]

Alan Rickman should play a villain.

[Vastardikai]

Cast Alan Rickman as Hush...

[Mr. Nerfect]

Megan Fox would be some interesting stunt casting, but if I were going to cast anybody in the role of Catwoman, I'd go with...fuck, I don't know...Zooey Deschanel. The girl can act, she is absolutely gorgeous, and I've always thought that girls in leather are always hotter when they aren't the sort of personality you associate with leather and domination.

There would essentially be two characters played by Deschanel in the movie. Selena Kyle -- sweet, sensitive, innocent -- who catches the interest of Bruce Wayne. And then you'd have Catwoman, which would just be Zooey Deschanel looking hot as fuck in a leather suit, getting right into Batman's head.

I think something like that would fit Catwoman, because it draws parallels between Batman and Catwoman. What the Nolan movies have done are turn Bruce Wayne into the assumed identity, whereas Batman is who he essentially is. Essentially, Selena Kyle would be an assumed identity that Catwoman takes, enforcing her domination over Batman even more.

And Aaron Eckhart was fucking fantastic in The Dark Knight. I definitely believe his performance was overlooked. Not just because Heath Ledger died, but because the character Eckhart played was an entirely different sort to Ledger's Joker. One is pretty much there to chew scenery, while the other has to be more subdued, and go through an actual emotional arc. Ledger did master the character, but the other actors are definitely overlooked. If Eckhart had been over the top at Two-Face, it wouldn't have worked nearly as well.

And Jeritron is definitely correct -- The Dark Knight is partially a story about the chaos/order dynamic between The Joker and Batman -- but it is also shares the heroic leads between Batman and Harvey Dent. Although, given the path Harvey goes down -- he becomes a tragic anti-hero, to the point where his weaknesses get the best of him (and what grander weakness than love?), and a stronger, more stoic hero begins his path to realising that he is perhaps the strength of Gotham.

[Tornado]

Halle Berry would make a good Catwoman.........oh..wait.

[Anybody Thrilla]

No he was incredible. His performance was severely underrated because of the hype surrounding Heath Ledger.

It was an anchor for the movie. His character saw the most change. The movie is essentially about him. He played it amazingly. If it wasn't for his performance the movie wouldn't have worked as well as it did.
I think he was every bit as good in his role as Ledger

I agree with this post one hundred percent.

[Fignuts]

As do I.

[Requiem]

Aaron Eckhart was incredible in his role. Jeritron is 100% correct with everything he said. Had Ledger not died, Eckhart would have gotten a lot more attention. That isn't to say people would have thought any less of Ledger's performance, but Eckhart was on his game through the entire movie.

[Ninti the Mad]

Check out the creepy guy checking her out through the side mirror.

[Shadow]

That's her father!

Nah it's me.

No it's her father.