Next Batman film casting news/speculation thread
 

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I just felt like making a thread for this since I'm pretty psyched for what Nolan could possibly achieve with this.

Anyway

Christian Bale is Batman (confirmed)
Michael Caine is Alfred (confirmed)
Katie Holmes is Rachel - Bruce Wayne love interest (heavily rumoured - she's got a screentest scheduled apparently)
<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0614165/">Cillian Murphy</a> is Scarecrow (I *think* I saw this confirmed but just take it as speculation for now)

So at the moment that still leaves Ra'as Al Ghul uncast, and potentially Talia as well (ELIZA DUSHKU DAMMIT :rant: [/predictable] )

Most heavily speculated for Ra'as:

John Malkovich
Alan Rickman
Christopher Ecclestone

Soooooooooo...thoughts?

who the hell are these new bad guys? did they create like a million more just so they can make more movies?

Well I know scarecrow

But Ra'as is a new one by me

I think Bale will be the best Batman since Keaton (who will not be topped imo)

When you see what he did with Patrick Bateman, you know the guy's gonna add something dark and nasty to the Bruce Wayne character. ;)

Ra'as Al Ghul has been in the comics since the 60s and has been Batman's most evenly matched opponent over the last 10-15 years :wtf:

He was in the animated series on a couple of occasions as well :wtf:

Never heard of him. :o

And I always thought Scarecrow was crap... suppose that's what they get for managing to use up 7 villains over the course of 4 movies, they're left with the cast offs...

Ha remember when somebody said Jude Law was going to be Batman and everyone kicked off saying "you can't have an englishman playing Batman"

http://www.dccomics.com/features/bma/ras.jpg ?

<a href="http://www.dccomics.com/secret_files/dc_character.html?sc_dc_itemCode=rasalghul">Here's a brief bio</a>

My bad he first appeared early 70s :o Still though he's been around a while. Seriously, this guy is to Batman as Luthor is to Superman, hot stuff that they're bringing him into the movie (just hope they don't kill him off :rant: )

Scarecrow on the surface is a pretty lame villain however given the right setting and treatment he can be a really good opponent...he won't be in the film for much though since the majority will focus on Ra's

Whatever happened to the cool Batman villains??

The Mad Hatter,Falseface,King Tut,The Bookworm,The Archer,The Minstrel,The Clock King,Marsha (The Queen Of Diamonds)Egghead,Shame & The Cowboys,The Sandman,Colonel Gumm,Black Widow,Nora Clavicle,The Puzzler,Louie The Lilac,Olga,Lord Phogg,and the great Minerva (Ms Gabor).

Liberace as Chandell rocked :y:

I'd like to see Egghead or King Tut just for laughs

Like a quick opening segment where Batman beats their shit up

I wanted the villian to be Clayface.

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Who would you cast as Egghead and King Tut?

They shouldn't have killed off the classics, such as Joker, two face, penguin, etc.

christian bale is the man. american psycho is my favourite movie, and if u haven't seen it i highly suggest you see it.

The American Psycho novel is fantastic, tied to Rules Of Attraction as my 2nd favourite... 1st being Glamorama

Eccelstone is a better Scarecrow. Tall, wiry and a sinister looking bastard…

The news most recently published, an article with Michael Caine, about the movie would seem to be that Nolan is going for Viggo Mortensen as Ra’s Al Ghul.

I’d have him rather than Alan Rickman or Malkovich although I’d have thought an Middle Eastern actor would be the best fit…although with current politics maybe not.

All the talk about the previous movies is, I'm hoping anyway, going to be proved redundant as long as this movie hits big - since this is a complete fresh start for the franchise they *could*, if they wanted, basically bring back and use anyone they wanted if they decide to make a series of these (though if they do that no swapping directors and stars and whatever the hell else, keep Nolan and Bale in throughout). And like I said before, don't f</>ucking kill of Ra's in the first movie, take a lead from Magneto in X-Men, you don't kill off the major major villains when they are infinitely re-usable.

I might have mixed those up and he might have been in the running for Scarecrow :o Pretty sure that Murphy is locked in now though.

*Topic resurrection*

To update:

Christian Bale - Batman
Michael Caine - Alfred
Katie Holmes - Bruce Wayne love interest
Cilian Murphy - unknown villain (most likely Scarecrow)
Liam Neeson - unknown villain (Ra'as? could work I guess, Neeson has the gravitas to be able to pull it off)

Those are all confirmed and locked castings. Still to be cast, from speculation anyway, is Jim Gordon (who will be in his 30s and a lieutenant, not the commissioner) and possibly the mayor and one or two other figurehead type characters.

After this they should be out of villians. Shouldnt they?

It's a new franchise, so they probably wont be going by the other movies. I wouldn't be surprized to see the Joker later on in the new series.

^^ Yep

They're basically rebooting the franchise, so it's as if the first four movies never happened. Some people will probably find that hard to wrap their heads around but the sooner Batman & Robin is banished from existance the better :nono:

I kind of wish that they could reboot the franchise but still use different characters and villains. I mean, I can't picture the Joker being anyone else besides Jack Nicholson. :nono:

They could always use clayface. The CGI they have these days could make him really come to life. Then there's the Manbat, and when they get to the bottom of the barrel crossing over villains from the justice league.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0372784/

Here's a little more inmfo on it. Liam Neeson is in the movie too.

Batman's had HUNDREDs of villains in his books over the years.

Yeah, this movie is supposed to be the last four movies what the last four movies were to the 70s movies...

It's a shame that Batman franchise had to go out on the note of Batman and Robin. That was a massively stupid movie.

However, there's a couple of major advantages to a reboot...

1) THEY HAVE A CHANCE TO NOT KILL OFF HIS TOP TEN VILLAINS IMMEDIATELY!!!!!!!

2) They get to do what I've done for years, and treat the fourth movie like it never existed

3) They hust might get a couple of movies out of the same Batman.

Do you really think it would make sense if they didn't kill off the villian at the end or at least have him clearly defeated to the point where he can't come back? I mean how can you have a film where the bad guy doesn't lose. Plus you can't just bring back a villian for another movie and make it seem like they have a better chance.

Unless you are talking about the idea of pairing villians up for no reason.

Oh and my number 1 thing that I want to see them do right is not f</>uck up Bane

X-Men - Magneto

Superman - Lex Luthor

:lol:

For a movie to make sense, the bad guy has to die.

And especially in a comic book movie...

Mystique too.

Daredevil - Kingpin

Although it's a shame he can't be used in Spiderman.
And no offence but Kingpin isn't black.

Anyone think they'll attempt a movie based on Batman Beyond? :shifty:

I was just watching Return Of The Joker. :)
I think they should just keep it as a cartoon.

:y:

I didn't use Kingpin as an example because he is pretty much incapacitated at the end of the movie, and that makes him an easy "con" argument.

However, he's not gonna go away, it's pretty obvious that he'll be back...I mean, the Kingpin's always been pretty much untouchable...

Besides, how often do you see someone like the Kingpin go away?

Normally, we elect them to office...