The Dark Knight Trilogy (Christopher Nolan, 2005-2012)

[flyonthewall2983]

You seem to be forgetting Milk.

[Murdoch]

Which lost best pic to Slumdog Millionaire, but it's an honor just to be nominated!

[flyonthewall2983]

Still won two major awards. Well, so did Brokeback. I guess I've rendered my argument useless.

[Murdoch]

The perceived love Oscar has for gay films I think is a relic of the buzz Brokeback had, and it's telling that that film didn't even win. The Academy won't hesitate to nominate a gay-themed film, but in terms of actual awards the films are usually given consolation prizes for losing best picture (directing, acting, screenplay).

Amazing how a joke about Batman's sexuality led us this far off-topic, to get us back that Anne Hathaway is quite comely, no?

[MoonlitKnight]

Besides, Wayne is a millionaire playboy, the expectation is he date someone younger.

But the character of Rachel, as we learned in the first one, was a childhood friend/sweetheart... so you'd think they'd both essentially be the same age. Honestly, Holmes still looks early-to-mid-20s to me (well, back then, anyway -- clearly being the world's most famous beard in the meantime has taken a bit of a toll on her :-$ ), while Bale undeniably looks mid-30s. Gyllenhaal definitely looks older, but still not quite there.

[matrixschmatrix]

He's only five years older than Holmes, it's actually a significantly larger age difference with Hathaway. I think Holmes just seems younger because she never really broke out of the Dawson's Creek persona, and she has a very young teenager affect about her.

[Napoleon]

Plus, you know JGL is totes gonna be Robin!

I initially misread this line and had great fun picturing crusty old Godard as The Boy Wonder.

We haven't had enough of Jean Luc in big hollywood films defeating villains using nothing but belittlement.

[dx23]

I don't mind Nolan adding Gordon-Levitt. There are so many characters he could play and it's not like Schumacher is directing the film. I can see him playing one of Bane's friends (Bird, Troll or Zombie), Dick Grayson (not Robin), Jim Corrigan, the Ventriloquist, etc. Seeing how Nolan has based some of the scripts in Batman Year One and Year Two, I wouldn't be surprised is he is being cast as The Reaper. Still, I wish he is being cast as Jack Ryder, the reporter that later on turned into The Creeper or Vic Sage (The Question). Actually, I thought Anthony Michael Hall would have been good is he was cast as Jack Ryder.

[flyonthewall2983]

I'm putting my money down on him being either Gotham's New DA or the mob figure taking the Eric Roberts' character's place.

[aox]

[Jean-Luc Garbo]

Perfect, I'll never hear the end of it from fanboys now.

[Murdoch]

That's actually a fake, it is a mashup of a photo and this cover with catwoman.

[aox]

damn.

sorry guys

[Roger Ryan]

The costume struck me as not really in keeping with Nolan's films. I'll be curious to see what real costume design looks like.

[flyonthewall2983]

I've seen this floating around (fake, obviously), looks closer to the design of the Batsuits from the last two films.

[MoonlitKnight]

Not a half-bad forgery, actually.

[domino harvey]

JGL is playing the Holiday Killer, sez Variety

[knives]

Was Falcone ever actually confirmed as the Holiday Killer. I mean it has to be him, but I thought they didn't officially announce it as such.

[Murdoch]

It took me a few minutes to realize this had nothing to do with Godard.

[dx23]

Was Falcone ever actually confirmed as the Holiday Killer. I mean it has to be him, but I thought they didn't officially announce it as such.

There was never a clear identity to the Holiday Killer although Alberto Falcone and Gilda Dent said they were doing the murders. I imagine that for the film, they are going to use Falcone as the killer since Harvey Dent didn't have a wife, thus Gilda doesn't exist in Nolan's version.

[jbeall]

More on JGL's part.

It was reported in March that Gordon-Levitt would play Albert Marcone, the son of major Gotham crime boss Alberto Falcone, played by Tom Wilkinson in the first of Christopher Nolan's films, "Batman Begins." Instead, according to a Warner Bros. press release, he'll play John Blake, "a Gotham City beat cop assigned to special duty under the command of Commissioner Gordon."

[dx23]

Very weird that Nolan is using two known actors to play 2 new characters that aren't part of the comics "world".

[flyonthewall2983]

Best thing I can take from that is JGL will likely spend the majority of time on screen with Oldman, which by itself would grab my attention.

[dx23]

Tom Hardy is taking his role as Bane very seriously.

[Markson]

Am I the only one who will always associate Hardy with his (also bald) role as Picard-clone Shinzon in Star Trek: Nemesis? He looks gigantic compared to his turn there.