The Dark Knight LR: Has some news for us

[ultimatefan]

Wall Street Journal:


Great job, Katie. Great job.

So she didn´t get one of those three-picture deals. Great gratitude, Mrs. Holmes, dropping the role that finally made you be known as more than Joey Potter.

 

[Miranda Fox]

So she didn´t get one of those three-picture deals. Great gratitude, Mrs. Holmes, dropping the role that finally made you be known as more than Joey Potter.

I KNOW!

I hope that film is ****.

 

[raybia]

I KNOW!

I hope that film is ****.

I wish Ms. Holmes to best luck to her new life as wife, mother, and the new direction in her career. Its only a matter of time before she stars with her husband in a movie.

She'll be fine but I more concern with the new Batman series.

 

[ultimatefan]

I wish Ms. Holmes to best luck to her new life as wife, mother, and the new direction in her career. Its only a matter of time before she stars with her husband in a movie.

She'll be fine but I more concern with the new Batman series.

I don´t. Homes was far from being a fundamental piece of the puzzle (actually, to many she was the weaker link).

 

[raybia]

I don´t. Homes was far from being a fundamental piece of the puzzle (actually, to many she was the weaker link).

And that is why the character is more important than the actress who played her.

 

[Excel]

holmes should stick to comedy. she was great in thanks for smokin.

but what does that wall street hournal link say i couldnt find ****

 

[FlawlessVictory]

Is it safe to say LR has delivered once again?

 

[LEX]

Honestly, this recasting news doesn't come off as a big shock to me. She was terribly weak to begin with anyway in my opinion. So good riddance, I say. I'm really hoping that she gets replaced by a better actress who has the real acting chops and the presence that can carry through the rest of the cast. If the sole purpose of this recasting is only to get an unknown for the role and then have her killed off by the Joker within the first 10 minutes of TDK, I don't mind either way really. I just want to feel sad for her when she dies and shake my fists towards Joker if he does kill her, or scream even.

Damon isn't a bad choice for Dent, but I'm glad he passed on the role. There are much better choices, and neither Lucas nor Foxx is one of them in my book. I want Clive, Guy, Joaquin or Denzel for Dent, damn it. Wouldn't mind seeing Whalberg taking on the role, either.

 

[raybia]

Honestly, this recasting news doesn't come off as a big shock to me. She was terribly weak to begin with anyway in my opinion. So good riddance, I say. I'm really hoping that she gets replaced by a better actress who has the real acting chops and the presence that can carry through the rest of the cast. If the sole purpose of this recasting is only to get an unknown for the role and then have her killed off by the Joker within the first 10 minutes of TDK, I don't mind either way really. I just want to feel sad for her when she dies and shake my fists towards Joker if he does kill her, or scream even.

Damon isn't a bad choice for Dent, but I'm glad he passed on the role. There are much better choices, and neither Lucas nor Foxx is one of them in my book. I want Clive, Guy, Joaquin or Denzel for Dent, damn it. Wouldn't mind seeing Whalberg taking on the role, either.

My sentiments exactly. Connelly dammit!

 

[Cinemaman]

Matt Damon? He would be nice choice, but i doubt he'll have enough time in his shedule for TDK.

Recast? That's awful, there's much better way - change of Bruce's love interest.

 

[Seen]

Recast? That's awful, there's much better way - change of Bruce's love interest.

Better but not exactly easier. A rewrite would most likely require weeks or months, and filming is scheduled to commence in March -- a month away. So unless Nolan wants to delay the start of filming, he'll need to recast, which is what he's doing.

 

[raybia]

Recast? That's awful, there's much better way - change of Bruce's love interest.

Ok.

It will get released in Summer of 2009 now. Thanks Cinemanman!

 

[Seen]

Ok.

It will get released in Summer of 2009 now. Thanks Cinemanman!

LOL!

 

[Agentsands77]

Recast? That's awful, there's much better way - change of Bruce's love interest.

Since they're recasting, it indicates to me that her part is intregal enough ot the story that she just can't be written out or satisfactorily replaced with another character.

And honestly, replacing her with just another generic love interest is a terrible suggestion. We'd be going back towards the dime-a-dozen love interest days of B89, BF, and B&R. Recasting isn't the end of the world - it happens all the time, and at the very least, Holmes isn't returning. That alone is cause to rejoice.

 

[ChrisBaleBatman]

I'm all for re-casting. The character is good.

 

["V"]

I don't believe that Nolan wouldn't have known that Holmes-Cruise wouldn't be coming back until today. I think he'd have seen her under the trance of Crooooze and be canny enough to sort out the script so it wouldn't have to rely heavily on a character who may or may not come back.

And surely she would have been tied to a three picture deal if she were that crucial to his story arc?

I wouldn't want a re-cast, have they ever worked?

 

[ultimatefan]

Since they're recasting, it indicates to me that her part is intregal enough ot the story that she just can't be written out or satisfactorily replaced with another character.

And honestly, replacing her with just another generic love interest is a terrible suggestion. We'd be going back towards the dime-a-dozen love interest days of B89, BF, and B&R. Recasting isn't the end of the world - it happens all the time, and at the very least, Holmes isn't returning. That alone is cause to rejoice.

Yeah, all those who keep asking "write her off" forget the script has been written for a long time with the character there, everything - even from Katie´s side - indicated she´d be back, but now it´s simpler to recast than to get back and write the script all over again - the studio has set a release date, they wouldn´t want to do that anyway... Holmes never was as important as Bale and Caine.

 

[Excel]

true. IF their bothering to recast her, her characters gotta have a decent sized role.

 

[raybia]

[QUOTE="V";11059534]
I wouldn't want a re-cast, have they ever worked?[/QUOTE]


Yes. James Bond.


Also Marty's girlfriend in the Back to the Future sequels.

 

[Miranda Fox]

You know what bugs me? These are likely the same people (rightfully) complaining about the revolving door of love interests and when Nolan is willing to risk a re-cast to keep the same one in they all start whinging and want a new one or Rachel written out altogether.

Okay. That's not hypocritical in the slightest.

 

["V"]

Yes. James Bond.


Also Marty's girlfriend in the Back to the Future sequels.

Recasting Bond is not the same, the whole Universe changes around him, not just one character in the exisiting World.

And changing Jenifers wasn't that much of an impact because she had about three minutes in the first film.

Changing a character who has a large part in the same series of films never works for me.

 

[raybia]

You know what bugs me? These are likely the same people (rightfully) complaining about the revolving door of love interests and when Nolan is willing to risk a re-cast to keep the same one in they all start whinging and want a new one or Rachel written out altogether.

Okay. That's not hypocritical in the slightest.

Tell them Miranda!

The story in a movie like this should always be above any individual actor.

 

[raybia]

[QUOTE="V";11059578]
Changing a character who has a large part in the same series of films never works for me.[/QUOTE]

Not for you maybe but it has and can work.

 

["V"]

Not for you maybe but it has and can work.

Again, an example please.

And i'm not talking about characters with one minute of screen time like Pyro in X1, and not when a Universe is changing with an actor like Bond/Batman.

 

[FlawlessVictory]

You know what bugs me? These are likely the same people (rightfully) complaining about the revolving door of love interests and when Nolan is willing to risk a re-cast to keep the same one in they all start whinging and want a new one or Rachel written out altogether.

Okay. That's not hypocritical in the slightest.

But once you recast that character then it doesn't feel like the same character anymore. So it's almost like a different character again, if that makes any sense.

p.s. I wasn't one of those people complaining.