The Dark Knight Penguin role

[Two-Face]

Bob Hoskins! please!

 

[ghost113]

Who knows maybe he wants to do something different he did do mission impossible 3

 

[Dark Knight]

Phillip Seymour Hofman has been offered the role.

Do we know this for sure....or is it rumour?

 

[fabman]

Agreed, Two Face. BOB HOSKINS FOR THE PENGUIN.

 

[ghost113]

Do we know this for sure....or is it rumour?

this is a soild as heath ledger getting the role of the joker

 

[spanish39]

I think Hoffman would accept the role if he has the time. He is among the caliber of Award winning serious actors Nolan looks for.

ONLY PROBLEM IS HE IS NOT BRITISH lol.

 

[Thespiralgoeson]

I'm in the Hoffman bandwagon as well. I'm one of the few who can say that he was one of my favorite actors years before he won the Oscar, and was a relatively obscure character. Actually, to be honest, I still haven't seen Capote. The roles I remember Hoffman are the small parts he played in The Big Lebowski, Scent of a Woman, Magnolia, Red Dragon, the 25th Hour and many others. The only movie I've seen that he's had the lead in is Love Liza, but it was an incredible performance.

However, I'm not getting my hopes up about this. While I know he's certainly not a pretentious prick that would turn down a part because it's a comic-based movie, he is one of the busier actors in Hollywood these days. Hoskins is probably a more realistic choice. I love Pesci as much as the next guy, but I just can't see him as Oswald Cobblepot.

As for how the Penguin should actually be in the film, I for one can't stand the idea of him being a British arms dealer like everyone else seems to be talking about. I just hate it. I didn't mind the changes they made in BB to characters like R'as and Scarecrow, but for Oswald, I'd much rather have a straight-up comic adaptation; an eccentric, very vain mob-boss who runs his schemes out of the Iceberg Lounge. And that's one thing I would love to see in TDK; a snazzy party at the Iceberg Lounge attended by all the elite of Gotham's underworld crashed by the Batman, where Bats then procedes to mop of the floor with Oswald's thugs and scare the living ***** out of him and forces him to spill information about other bad guys. It's a classic Batman/Penguin confrontation that's happened countless times in the comics and the later version of TAS, and I would LOVE to see it happen on screen with Bale interrogating the likes of Hoffman or Hoskins the way he did to Flass in the first movie.

 

[spanish39]

I just meant British because all the BIG actors in the franchise are. I AGREE THOUGH, I don't want him to be a British arms dealer. Unless they meen like he deals arms (Weapons) to the British. I wouldn't care if he was American and selling weapons to the British, but I hope he is not speaking with an accent.

You know though, reading that last post something came to me. Techinicly the place Bruce goes in "Begins" is the Iceberg Lounge. It is where all the mob bosses and corrupt social big wigs go to relax and not be bothered. I hope maybe they use that in the next film, maybe dress it up a little more to Penguins character, but they should just use that again.

 

[Thespiralgoeson]

He can still be that mob boss and also be the British arms-dealer, and it wouldn't change anything about the character really.

Oh I know. It'd be really on-par with the changes they made to the scarecrow and would in-fact be quite a bit less extreme than the changes they made to R'as. It's just personal taste for me. I guess don't have a problem with him being an arms dealer per se, I just like the grittier, local crimelord Penguin better. I really always saw the Penguin as basically the same character as Falcone, only with the theatricality of the rest of the rogue's gallery.

 

[ghost113]

I heard the role of the penguin is mad small, but something like the scarecrow's in begins.

 

[Cinemaman]

I think he will have 2-3 scenes, what is enough.

 

[ghost113]

2-3 scenes thats crap, compared to scarecrow hopefully he will have a shoot out with one of his umbrellas just blasting away at batman as he hopes from pillar to pillar

 

[Cinemaman]

2-3 scenes thats crap, compared to scarecrow hopefully he will have a shoot out with one of his umbrellas just blasting away at batman as he hopes from pillar to pillar

Scarecrow had 2.5 scenes, didn't he?

 

[Two-Face]

I think The Penguin scenes are enough if this is true.

 

[ghost113]

No tyhe scarecrow had major role

 

[newwaveboy87]

no, Scarecrow did not have a major role. he was a small supporting character, but with what little screentime he had, they did great.

 

[ghost113]

maybe thats why I believed he had a major role.

 

[newwaveboy87]

possibly. Cillian's scenes were perfectly done, but he only had about 6 of them. and most of them were out of costume.

 

[The Joker]

I've always liked the Penguin ever since Danny DeVito played him. I really hope Pengy is in this movie.

I want to see him in his tux and top hat, with monocle, cigarette holder, and a few lethal umbrellas at hand.

 

[Mr.E.Nygma]

If it is a small role, ask William H Macy... No seriously, I thought of a new suggestion for Cobblepot in the name of Lee Arenberg, maybe some of you will recognize him?

 

[ghost113]

is that the guy from pirates of the caribbean.

 

[Mr. Vice]

is that the guy from pirates of the caribbean.

Yep.

 

[ghost113]

that would be interesting.

 

[Mr. Vice]

that would be interesting.

I know. I think he could do The Penguin some justice. He's great in the POTC movies.

 

[Spider-Fan83]

I know. I think he could do The Penguin some justice. He's great in the POTC movies.

I liked him on seinfeld lol