The Dark Knight Rises Casting Call (All Villains)

[Shane Diesel]

Haha. Can you imagine Black Mask having Will Smith's voice? Or Black Mask with Will Smith's usual slang: "You don't want none of me, aiight Bats. Take another step and I promise, yo ass is dead."

Batman: Alright Black Mask, its time for me to put to end your reign of terror!
Black Mask: Aw, hell no

HAHAHA

 

[anrrd_2]

black mask should speak with a certain sarcastic, elequince (think a young anthony hopkins) that im not sure will smith can deliver. i actually think jim carrey could do a decent job but hes not my 1st choice by a long shot...hhmmm clive owen?

 

[ThePoisonPuppet]

I think along the lines of Michael Caine, but obviously someone a lot younger and not already playing Alfred. I just mean a similar attitude.

 

[regwec]

Right, here are mine so far.

1) The Joker- Johnny Depp

I think that The Joker's monologue at the end of TDK makes it essential that the character recurs throughout the films. Now, how best to do this whilst complimenting and flattering Heath Ledger's stunning performance, and the man himself? Byt giving the part to an widely lauded actor with nothing to prove.

2) The Riddler- Michael Sheen

Sheen is a fantastic actor, able to assess and reproduce all of the nuances in voice and manner of several famous people. He is also able to bring depth and inventiveness to fresh roles. As a physical type, his wirey, rattish, boyishness suits the character well.

3) Catwoman- Emily Blunt

Blunt is just great, and everything about her doesn't so much screem "Catwoman" as purrs "Selina" down my ear.

4) The Penguin- David Suchet

Seen here as the fraudster Robert Maxwell, Suchet is a screen-stealing character actor who is highly adept at projecting a calculating intelligence and a malice much larger than his limited height.

Black Mask- Mark Strong

I just love this guy. His performance as a Reggie Kray-like Harry Starks in series "The Long Firm" was magnetic in its malevolence, as was his character in "Stardust". One of a very few actors I would trust to bring a wooden black mask to life.

 

[NinjaTurtleFan]

Will Smith could be a good John Stewart/Green Lantern but cripes Black Mask? The role could virtually go to anyone. I would rather see Joaquin Phoenix get it though because his name was talked alot about on here and ran through many various circles when the casting for Two-Face was going on.

 

[anrrd_2]

you think anyone can play black mask? he crazy and super intellegent and a masocist and all other sorts of crazy. i dont think he is as simple to cast as you think he is.

 

[FlawlessVictory]

Right, here are mine so far.

1) The Joker- Johnny Depp

I think that The Joker's monologue at the end of TDK makes it essential that the character recurs throughout the films. Now, how best to do this whilst complimenting and flattering Heath Ledger's stunning performance, and the man himself? Byt giving the part to an widely lauded actor with nothing to prove.

Essential, and fans just wanting to see the Joker again are two different things. Essential would be

Spoiler

Joker not being caught at the end of TDK and continuing to cause havoc. So that when BB3 starts Batman is still trying to capture the Joker. However, the Joker was caught. Seeing the Joker in part 3 is not essential and not an absolute requirement to move the story forward. If the Joker was not shown in BB3, people in the audience would not be scratching their heads wondering how come we haven't see the character again.

3) Catwoman- Emily Blunt

Blunt is just great, and everything about her doesn't so much screem "Catwoman" as purrs "Selina" down my ear.

Excellent choice! One of the best I have seen on in here. I was thinking Charlize Theron but Blunt would be great as well.

 

[theael39]

i've always wanted to see Will Smith play a bad guy, plus it'd be pretty funny.

 

[tyler-durden]

me too, but if Smith were to play a bad guy I hope it would be something original nothing thats adapted from something

 

[Shane Diesel]

I'm really liking those Riddler and Catwoman casting choices regwec.

 

[Axl Van Sixx]

I originally put this in the Riddler casting thread, but I didn't notice this one so...copy and paste.

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Alright, I just watched Crispin Glover's infamous 1987 and 1990 appearances on the David Letterman show, as well as his interview about them from 2007. I'm now fully convinced that this is The Man Who Should Be Riddler:

The audacity of this guy to essentially hijack Letterman's show on two separate occasions with bizarre performance pieces is nothing short of brilliant:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALapHYNSmoA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFePPdrRQdE&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIdnE...eature=related

Reflecting on it 20 years later, he still revels in not divulging whether that was "really" him in the interviews, i.e. whether it was Andy Kaufman-style performance art, or him high on drugs, or whatever. The 1987 interview I think it's pretty clear that he's playing a character from a movie, but the 1990 interview is more interesting. In the latter case we're going under the assumption that this time it really is him, when apparently he was actually just playing a different (but naturally eccentric) character from another movie. That puts a whole new layer on this "enigma".

A third Batman movie would have to go in a completely different direction from The Dark Knight in order to justify its existence and make Nolan's series the first truly great superhero trilogy. In order to do that, they have to have an actor and a villain that can compete with Heath's now-legendary Joker, and in my opinion, if they choose The Riddler they don't need to make him over as a Joker-style serial killer. Doing so would probably be a bad idea because it would feel innately repetitive. The Joker and The Riddler can be imagined as highly similar characters (witness the respective interpretations of Jack Nicholson and Jim Carrey), but to do so in consecutive films would give audience members a feeling of déjà vu pretty quickly.

Enter Crispin Glover. He's an actor who has proven himself equally capable of playing eccentric nerds and silent killers. If anybody could put a fresh, interesting spin on The Riddler that would distance itself from Heath's Joker, it's him. I believe The Riddler, envisioned as an oddball intellectual capable of deviously scheming his way to power, would be a great acting vehicle for Crispin and - crucially - would allow a third Nolan film to step out of the shadow of the Knight and avoid becoming a weak imitation of it.

 

[nolan's roll'n]

Read my sig, it says it all.

 

[nolan's roll'n]

Right, here are mine so far.

1) The Joker- Johnny Depp

I think that The Joker's monologue at the end of TDK makes it essential that the character recurs throughout the films. Now, how best to do this whilst complimenting and flattering Heath Ledger's stunning performance, and the man himself? Byt giving the part to an widely lauded actor with nothing to prove.

2) The Riddler- Michael Sheen

Sheen is a fantastic actor, able to assess and reproduce all of the nuances in voice and manner of several famous people. He is also able to bring depth and inventiveness to fresh roles. As a physical type, his wirey, rattish, boyishness suits the character well.

3) Catwoman- Emily Blunt

Blunt is just great, and everything about her doesn't so much screem "Catwoman" as purrs "Selina" down my ear.

4) The Penguin- David Suchet

Seen here as the fraudster Robert Maxwell, Suchet is a screen-stealing character actor who is highly adept at projecting a calculating intelligence and a malice much larger than his limited height.

Black Mask- Mark Strong

I just love this guy. His performance as a Reggie Kray-like Harry Starks in series "The Long Firm" was magnetic in its malevolence, as was his character in "Stardust". One of a very few actors I would trust to bring a wooden black mask to life.

WB please hire this man to work with Chris Nolan on Batman 3?!

 

[p4poetic]

Johnny Depp and Will Smith are too famous to be in Batman now, sorry. People won't be able to see the characters, no matter how well a job they do.

 

[cerealkiller182]

Black Mask- Mark Strong

I just love this guy. His performance as a Reggie Kray-like Harry Starks in series "The Long Firm" was magnetic in its malevolence, as was his character in "Stardust". One of a very few actors I would trust to bring a wooden black mask to life.

Awesome idea

 

[3eyes]

how about javier bardem as bane?

 

[Quinzel]

I don't think bane should be in another.

That's just me though.

 

[Johnny Drama]

Javier Bardem would make a great Bane with som CGI help

 

[3eyes]

I also think he has the build to put on more muscle to get to a suitable non-venom size Bane.

 

[MrQuinn]

I don't think bane should be in another.

That's just me though.

on the contrary, he should be in another, to show the general public that he's not that sorry excuse for a side villain crap show in B & R.
ugh I'm still angry he was a part of that movie.

 

[nolan's roll'n]

Javier Bardem would make a great Bane with som CGI help

Nolan hates CGI and avoided it when making TDK and BB but I do agree that Bardem would be a great Bane.

 

[Terror Inc.]

I always thought if they put Freeze back into a Batman movie that Arnold Vosloo should play him, and I'm almost surprised no one has mentioned him before in here. If you've seen the Darkman movies, (2&3 anyways) he's fit to play the whole tortured scientist angle, with a little bit of a psycho streak. He was also Imotep in the mummy movies, and although he didn't say a whole lot, he still had the on screen menace. Plus hes not nearly as old as say, Patrick Stewart, like some have suggested, or that dude from Saw. Anyways that'd be my pick for Freeze, heres hopin.

-Terror Inc.

 

[jtfaria]

I always thought if they put Freeze back into a Batman movie that Arnold Vosloo should play him, and I'm almost surprised no one has mentioned him before in here. If you've seen the Darkman movies, (2&3 anyways) he's fit to play the whole tortured scientist angle, with a little bit of a psycho streak. He was also Imotep in the mummy movies, and although he didn't say a whole lot, he still had the on screen menace. Plus hes not nearly as old as say, Patrick Stewart, like some have suggested, or that dude from Saw. Anyways that'd be my pick for Freeze, heres hopin.

-Terror Inc.

I can see it. Good call.

 

[jtfaria]

Right, here are mine so far.

1) The Joker- Johnny Depp

I think that The Joker's monologue at the end of TDK makes it essential that the character recurs throughout the films. Now, how best to do this whilst complimenting and flattering Heath Ledger's stunning performance, and the man himself? Byt giving the part to an widely lauded actor with nothing to prove.

2) The Riddler- Michael Sheen

Sheen is a fantastic actor, able to assess and reproduce all of the nuances in voice and manner of several famous people. He is also able to bring depth and inventiveness to fresh roles. As a physical type, his wirey, rattish, boyishness suits the character well.

3) Catwoman- Emily Blunt

Blunt is just great, and everything about her doesn't so much screem "Catwoman" as purrs "Selina" down my ear.

4) The Penguin- David Suchet

Seen here as the fraudster Robert Maxwell, Suchet is a screen-stealing character actor who is highly adept at projecting a calculating intelligence and a malice much larger than his limited height.

Black Mask- Mark Strong

I just love this guy. His performance as a Reggie Kray-like Harry Starks in series "The Long Firm" was magnetic in its malevolence, as was his character in "Stardust". One of a very few actors I would trust to bring a wooden black mask to life.

Wonderful selections, although I hear Robert Maxwell actually wants to play the Penguin himself. He's fighting over the role with Rupert Murdoch.

 

[nolan's roll'n]

Wonderful selections, although I hear Robert Maxwell actually wants to play the Penguin himself. He's fighting over the role with Rupert Murdoch.

Link please?!