Mitt Romney = Bane.
The toughest match the Dark Knight has ever had to face.

Barack Obama = the Dark Knight
Once thought of as a hero, now thought to be a monster, he must return to fight for his ideals.

Commissioner Gordon = The Tea Party 
Traditionalist called by a sense of duty to engage in a battle to preserve what is radically decaying before his eyes.

 Catwoman = Occupy Wall Street
An otherwise uninvolved player, motivated by and attracted to chaos whose sense of entitlement brings her/them to class warfare and a life of law breaking they feel is morally justified cuz rich people have stuff and they don’t. She’s angry because she’s ignorant – mainly in her misunderstanding of economics, thinking of it as a pie with a finite amount of slices.

How does it all end?…

Take it either way:

Romney/Bane succeeds in doing what other more experienced contenders previously failed at and breaks the people’s hero?

Or

Obama/Batman gets broken by a strong challenger but ultimately wins in the end?

We’ll find out in about 10 months…

I like this one the best:

There is buzz about roles being cast for Talia al Goul (finally) and Vicki Vale (unnecessary) and the Tom Hardy villain role has been confirmed as Bane, which is a character that is allegedly popular in some circles.

Here’s the official press release on the casting:

BURBANK, Calif. — Warner Bros. Pictures announced today that Anne Hathaway has been cast as Selina Kyle in Christopher Nolan’s “The Dark Knight Rises.” She will be starring alongside Christian Bale, who returns in the title role of Bruce Wayne/Batman.

“The Dark Knight Rises” is slated for release on July 20, 2012. The film will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.

One rumor’s source has been confirmed though, and that is that Johnny Depp and Phil Hoffman were in fact suggested to play their rumored parts. Stuff.co.nz has “confirmed” that both actors will appear in Batman 3, but the actual claim is just that they were wanted for the job.

Michael Caine, who plays Alfred in the Nolan-Batmen said to MTV: “I was with a Warner Bros executive and I said, ‘Are we going to make another one?’ They said, ‘Yeah’.

“I said, ‘How the hell are we going to top Heath Ledger as The Joker? And he says, ‘I’ll tell you how you top Heath – Johnny Depp as The Riddler and Philip Seymour Hoffman as The Penguin’.

“I said, ‘Shit, they’ve done it again’.”

“Shit they’ve done it again” sounds like an odd exclamation for Cain to utter, but ok.

Work is expected to begin on the next movie, starring Christian Bale as Batman, some time next year.

A downer for Nolan fans however, as he says he ain interested in making another Batman:

Ain’t It Cool News: Eckhart: I think Heath was the one that was going to come back. And since he can’t… (Pauses) You know, Chris hasn’t said that he’s going to make another one.

[Interviewer]: True. He’s been on vacation. I spoke to David Goyer at Comic Con, and he said there have been no discussions.

Eckhart: (Smiling) He never said he’s going to make another one. I’m sure they drove the Brinks truck up to his house and dumped money on his lawn. But I think Chris wants to go out and make other movies, too. And he should. He’s an independent filmmaker at heart. He’s got a lot of ideas.

]]> http://richwatch.net/johnny-depp-dark-knight-sequel-villian/feed/ 3 http://richwatch.net/the-riddler-in-the-dark-knight-returns/ http://richwatch.net/the-riddler-in-the-dark-knight-returns/#comments Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:15:45 +0000 richard http://richwatch.net/?p=144 An excellent fan rendition of what the next Nolan Batman movie might look like. Rumors are abound, including Johnny Depp as the Riddler, but none are anywhere near conformable and no deals have been made, scripts drafted, actors cast, or budget provided. All speculation, but still fun

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Here is a concept art of the new T-face that is floating around the internet claiming to be a leaked picture from Warner Bros:

Here is what TwoFace looked like in Batman The Long Halloween, which is what the Dark Knight is mostly based on:

Something that’s always been a constant in Two-Face portrayal has been the widened morbidly cleft lip on his bad side that reveals his teeth – which would cause immense drooling in real life, but who knows, maybe his bad side is dryer in the mouth as part of the accident. Another question on the Two-Face accident science is how could an accident THAT bad that screwed up his flesh so terribly, leave his eye intact and with no noticeable impairment? Well whatever, but back to the stetchy lip thing:
The Tommy Lee Jones version in Batman Forever didn’t attempt this in the make up, so this will be our first live action view of that aspect of the characters appearance.

It’s also disappointing that a pre-TwoFace Harvey Dent wasn’t in Batman Begins so his personal friendship and relationship with Bruce could have been developed more. In the original script of Batman Returns, Billy Dee Williams was to reprise his role as Harvey Dent and make the final turn into Two-Face at the end. Dent was deleted from the script because Burton “didn’t want the film to have connections with the previous Batman film”. No idea why. So instead Christopher Walken filled the part as a new character named Max Shrek who gets a wet eclectic kiss from Catwoman and dies a crispy death instead of a Two-Face birth. I love Walken in the part, but one of the dozens of things that would have made Batman Forever 10 times better would have been a deeper and serious storyline to Two Face like was originally planned.

Watch my version of this exact trailer, reshot/dubbed under my 3 year old cousin in the part of Ledgers Joker: http://rtv.richardland.com/archives/81