TOM HARDY CAST IN UNKNOWN ROLE IN BATMAN 3

As The Cock King, no doubt.

Great news, even at a sparse level. Good for the movie, good for Tom Hardy.

Is Bale definitely coming back?

So great. So so great.
Glad Nolan pulled a left turn while everyone was fan casting JGL he went with Tom Hardy.

Everyone that hasn't seen Bronson needs to correct that shit, stat.

Who's to say they both won't be hired? There's plenty of room for more major cast members.

The script's finished already? I didn't realise we were already in the casting stage for this?

Love Hardy. He was the bomb in Bronson, yo.

Guess:


Robin.



And Joseph Gordon Levitt AS Commissioner Gorden Levitt.

I could really see him playing anything, but me gut is saying Riddler, or Black Mask.

Or due to him being English, he could be playing Alfred's nephew, who later turns out to be Batboy.

I love you so much.

I'm thinking Riddler as well.

Nolan is working on the third draft. Goyer did one. His brother Jonah did one. And now he's on it. They're shooting in April at New Orleans.

Well, this can't be bad whoever he ends up playing.

Unless whoever he ends up playing is a bad.

Well, since Miller's Mad Max flick doesn't look like it's getting off the ground any time soon, Hardy gotta-eat, right?

He's a good actor and whatever role he plays, an awesome addition.

Da dum choo

Not much to add here save a whole lot more love for this announcement. I don't think I'd ever seen him act before Inception but that immediately marked him out to me as one to watch. Exciting stuff.

E.T.A.

Ellen Page wouldn't make a bad Carrie Kelley... justsayin'isall...

I just finished up watching Bronson again, and he was once again phenomenal in the role.

Imagining him with his Bronson look, he could be KILLER CROC or BANE!

Still, I wouldn't put it past Nolan to do a left turn and either cast him as another villain, or in just a regular role much like he did with Anthony Michael Hall.

The idea that he wouldn't never crossed my mind. After a script as open-ended as The Dark Knight's, you think they wouldn't have locked him down for the next film right away?

This reads really funny. As if you were expecting a different film to unfold before you.

Bale was signed for three films back when Batman Begins got rolling. He'll be back.

Who's going to be the first to photoshop him into a Catwoman suit? Bonus points for the Julie Newmar edition.

Sometimes that happens. I've seen some movies where I loved it and the characters in it at the time, then see it again, and be let down. Luckily that's not the case with Bronson.

Here's my theory:



And it would kickass.

Yes, please. I can't add much more than you all have. Just that this is exciting.

Mark Millar just tweeted this:

Why would you believe anything out of Millar's mouth?

Mark Millar again with the stupid. The day Nolan puts Killer Croc in his Batman is the day Millar admits he's not God's gift to the comic book industry.

Since you posted that...
http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/10/07/...e-killer-croc/

Hardy is a great choice.

Glad to see Hardy in the Nolan stable of actors.

The Killer Croc is a most retarded villain. I hope it's not it.

Not saying I believe him. Just putting it out there.

However, I think Croc is entirely consistent with Nolan's approach to Batman, because there are a numer of ways to adapt the character. For example, he could refer to the portrayal of Croc in the "Joker" graphic novel, which is no more of a stretch than his presentation of Harvey Dent's condition in TDK.

I know, do you really believe Superior #1 sold out in 4 hours?

Besides, he's not necessarily confirming anything. It could just be fancasting on his part.

Definitely. Knowing they have a good relationship means Hardy's career is on the rise that much more. Always nice to see good things happen to good actors, especially good actors who once fucked dudes!

If you read that /film story, Millar's line of "scoops" comes from "Con gossip."

I find it very hard to believe that many people outside of Nolan's circle actually know much. The "Con Gossip" probably started with the possible New Orleans shoot and went from there.

...Harvey Bullock? (the obsessed cop chasing Batman down since TDK did leave him as a wanted murderer...)

Seems to me that Hardy is a very Ledger type of actor, intense, creative, immersive. Not that I know anything about what Nolan thinks but I'd bet green money that Hardy reminds Nolan of Ledger as well. No, I don't think Hardy is playing the Joker, I just think Nolan is drawn to a specific type of actor. Oh, and the Killer Croc stuff is stupid, they're in New Orleans because of tax breaks, that's it.

So by that logic, The Green Lantern must be fighting against Solomon Grundy since they filmed in the same location.

I really think the focus of Batman 3 will be Bruce Wayne/Batman, instead of the villian like in The Dark Knight.

I kind of like the idea of Hardy possibly being Deadshot. Maybe an outside merch hired by the new DA to hunt down Batman due to failed efforts by the police and Gordon. Puts up an interesting scenero of the villian not truely being a villian.

Bring it.

I don't dismiss completely the notion that Killer Croc is in the movie... he wouldn't/couldn't be the "big bad" IMO, but the idea of shooting a non Gotham section in the swamps of New Orleans makes a lot of sense... and while Millar is prone to exaggeration he is not prone to outright lying, and he seems to think Croc is a villain in the movie.

So he goes from Mad Max to what will no doubt be a more successful film?

Dream bigger, indeed.

Millar is full of shit and a shameless self-promoter.

I love Tom Hardy, but I'd kind of love it if his part was the ubiqitious 'Christopher Nolan Exposition Puppet'. He'd join such luminaries as that guys who was really concerned about the train arriving at Wayne Towers in Batman Begins, that guy who isn't Commissioner Gordon during the lorry chase in The Dark Knight and the Pin in Inception.

I missed the part where they said they are shooting in a swamp. It sounds like they are shooting down south, for money reasons.

I never said they WERE shooting in a swamp... I simply said the IDEA of shooting a non Gotham section in the swamps of New Orleans makes sense.

New Orleans is a great place to film, but it is hardly an appropriate stand in for Gotham, so I suspect that there might be more reasons then simple tax benefits. If this was simply about doing it cheaper then Detroit (which offers even better breaks then New Orleans) would have been a better choice.

What great news, glad Nolan is giving the role (whatever it is) to a talent and not a name. Without more info it's hard to comment in greater depth, but for now I'll just say this seems like a good sign for BM3

EDIT: This is an especially welcome development in the wake of the recent MM:FR delay

New Orleans was used as an unnamed Chicago-like city in Miller's Crossing, Chicago has previously doubled for Gotham. This is the stuff location scouts are paid to do.

Also important: there's been NO confirmation that they're actually shooting in New Orleans.

This is terrific news. I'm thinking Riddler, like a few of you. I like the Deathstroke thought though.

Well the reason Chicago works as a good Gotham City (or New York as seen in Spider-Man) is because of it's large down town sky scraper buildings. It requires very minor tweaking to make it unrecognizable.

New Orleans' downtown is signifgantly smaller and less capable of subbing for a major metropolitan city in the scale of Gotham. Of course they will make it work and it will be awesome, but the fact that there are cheaper, bigger cities that offer even bigger breaks means I don't take the it's cheaper excuse as the ONLY reason they are in New Orleans.

We are all speculating right now, but I have a feeling the movie to New Orleans is more then just a cheaper alternative, I wouldn't be shocked at all if they intend to use some of the cities natrual character in the film (IE Swamps or even the festival season, how cool would that be)

EDIT TO ADD: Miller's Crossing is also a period piece, and New Orleans is a very old city with classic buildings all over that help it double as a prohibition era city... not exactly a modern metropolitan like Gotham

I am from New Orleans and have a ton of family out there, I heard it from them first that Batman was filming down there, it has been on their local news. Not exactly iron clad confrmation, but better then assumptions at this point in time.

There's been rumors and reports, seemingly only based off the fact that other WB superhero films (Green Lantern) have utilized it for tax reasons. But that's it. They haven't even finished the script yet.

ETA: Where's Casey Taylor? He's all plugged into this stuff.

Chicago was Gotham in the previous two films, that will probably not change for this one either. And both previous films where shot in many locations around the world. Including Iceland and Tokyo. So I seriously doubt that New Orleans will stand in for Gotham this time around, it's probably just another location for God-knows-what.

I love Tom Hardy, great choice for whatever he ends up playing. But the Killer Croc rumor is retarded, especially for this Batman interpretation which is very much based in reality.

Who should the villain be then? I don't know... Maybe they should come up with someone new and not from the comics.