So I was at work today, and as I work in a video store we talk about movies often. We were taking stickers off a big stack of movies, and two of my female coworkers started talking about Heath Ledger (they were working on Casanova). I chimed in saying "did you hear he's playing The Joker?" and while she seemed okay with that, one of the girls response was "yeah, and did you hear Ryan Phillipe is gonna be Two-Face?" in a very displeased, disgusted voice.
Just thought i'd let you know what non-geeks are thinking, to show that Phillipe-haters aren't only upset because their favorites didn't get in. I'd accept someone other than Schreiber if I felt who they picked would be good for the role. Cusack sounded interesting, and for a while I thought he actually landed the role (some loser lied about him annoucning it on the radio). I'd never thought of Cusack, but was okay with the idea. Phillipe, on the other hand, makes me want to cry.
Seriously though, they just brought respect back to the Batman franchise. People are gonna be skeptical enough with Ledger as the Joker, if they really cast Phillipe, people will go right back to expecting Batman movies to suck.