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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.
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