I want Ewan McGregor to play the Black Mask in the third movie. Here’s why:
First off; look at his face:
This guy has an almost perma-smile in nearly every picture he takes and yes its true he’s been reported as being a really nice guy but a smile that big almost looks too good, like he’s putting on an act. Remember Roman Sionis’ background? His family went out of their way to be friends with all the rich people and forced him to be friends with their kids but behind closed doors talked so much **** about everyone. I think McGregor could pull of this duplicitous nature: smiling in your face and hating you in his mind.
So how do we introduce him? Well let’s say that this next Batman movie (herein called BB3) is set just a month or two after the events of TDK. Rachel has to be buried or at least have a funeral and when people die, childhood friends tend to show up. So Sionis comes back to Gotham for Rachel’s funeral. He finds the city in chaos, Bruce Wayne (a man he hates) rising in power and success and the criminal underworld completely lacking any leadership.
Sionis would see this as opportunity to indulge in his true criminal impulses while simultaneously ruining and embarrassing the families of wealth and privilege he’s always loathed. Think about it a man with wealth, resources and capabilities of Bruce Wayne bringing the entire criminal element of Gotham under his heel? A business man running a totally vertically integrated operation of thugs, murderers and rapists? We’ve already seen this, twice:
Yep, imagine Frank Lucas (who was later played by Denzel in
American Gangster) or Nino Brown the character he inspired from
New Jack City as the new Capo De Tutti Cappi in Gotham and imagine how dangerous that would be.
Do how do we get Sionis to be the Black Mask?
Well I don’t think Noland would make him a skull-headed madman but originally he wore an actual Black Mask. And after the Scarecrow and the Joker, it’d make sense that whoever decides to set up shop in Gotham might wear a mask; hell, the criminals might expect it at this point. Wearing a simple full facemask would be reasonable and allows Sionis to play both sides of the coin.
^is that morrena?!?
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