The Dark Knight Rises 'Social Network' Actor Lands Role in 'Dark Knight Rises'

[kvz5]

***** just got real.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/social-network-actor-lands-role-176577

'Social Network' Actor Lands Role in 'Dark Knight Rises'
Josh Pence will have a key part in a flashback sequence in Christopher Nolan's new Batman film.

Josh Pence, who played opposite Armie Hammer as Tyler Winklevoss in The Social Network (where Hammer's face was superimposed on his), has been cast as a young Ra's Al Ghul in Dark Knight Rises, Christopher Nolan's new Batman movie.

The movie's casting has been ultra-secret, although Christian Bale, Gary Oldman and Morgan Freeman are returning to lead a caped crusading cast, which includes Anne Hathaway, Tom Hardy, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Marion Cottilard.

The story line has also been kept locked up in the Batcave but Pence's casting throws more than a few crumbs to follow. Ra's Al Ghul was played by Liam Neeson in Batman Begins, thus paving the way for a possible return of the supposedly dead character. Also, while the studio never confirmed Cottilard's character, it has been rumored to be that of Thalia Al Ghul, the daughter of Batman's mentor-turned-enemy.

Sources say Pence will appear in scenes that take place 30 years prior to the present story.

Pence, repped by Innovative Artists and Industry Entertainment, recently wrapped Battleship, Universal's big-budget action movie based on the board game, and indie political thriller The Algerian.

 

[Charlie The Red]

No way.

 

[batman11]

Wow.

 

[Rocketman]

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/social-network-actor-lands-role-176577

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Not sure what to say.

 

[Figs]

I take it Hollywood reporter is usually 100% dead on with their news, or are people jumping the gun already believing this?

 

[MiniBond]

New rule people: real news come to us when they're not expected t:

 

[Rocketman]

Well, this is something else.

Is it possible that Marion Cotillard is playing Ra's Al Ghul's wife?

Ra's: "I was not always like this. Once I had a wife... My great love... she was taken from me."

 

[KRIM]

Holy crap that was unexpected. He looks like a young Neeson, too. So I guess with Marion's confirmed discussions, this most definitely means Talia is in. But Ra's being back in the picture injects an x-factor. Could we possibly see a youthful Ra's going toe-to-toe with Bruce?

No one saw this coming, I bet.

 

[kvz5]

THR is very reliable - in the same league as Deadline. The Talia part is still not confirmed but it seems that this guy's camp leaked the role he's playing.

 

[Solidus]

Interesting looks like we are getting LOS back. Which I've been fine with. It should be interesting having a flashback that far back. Won't connect to BB directly maybe. Interesting indeed.

 

[RoughNTumble]

f***, this means that leaked synopsis is most likely legit

 

[Rodrigo90]

Marion wouldnt appear as another dead wife in flashback scenes...would she?

 

[kvz5]

I expected a flashback if it was true that LOS and Talia were involved but I expected it with Liam (and just a few years back). I don't know where a flashback of 30 years with a young Ras will fit in.

 

[RoughNTumble]

lol typecast as the dead wife

 

[batman11]

 

[Solidus]

Marion wouldnt appear as another dead wife in flashback scenes...would she?

Good point maybe.

 

[kvz5]

Marion wouldnt appear as another dead wife in flashback scenes...would she?

I can see the possibility of her being the dead wife rather than Talia.

 

[RoughNTumble]

thinker: if she's just the dead wife, why would there by a ra's flashback at all?

 

[Gotham Knight]

And here we go. Time for everyone to start freaking out again and bashing the plot.

 

[the dmg]

Is this news legit?

 

[Wolverine1988]

Iam confsued as to how he was in The Social Netowork.. I remember the Winklevosses werent they played by the same Actor?(Who supposedley was the front runner for Batman in that god awful Justice League movie from a a couple years back).

This guy had his voice over that actor?

Really confused.


Anyways, this def makes me a bit nervous sounds like they are cramming a whole bunch of **** in this movie

 

[ChrisB]

Holy **** guys!!!!! That's all I can say right now!

 

[MiniBond]

30 years flashback scene ????

Call me crazy but isn't it exactly the periode when some Bruce Wayne was born ???t:

 

[RoughNTumble]

so much for the ambiguity of ra's being immortal

 

[Rodrigo90]

thinker: if she's just the dead wife, why would there by a ra's flashback at all?

So that it will explain why Marion keeps appearing out of the "sub conscience blue' to cause trouble for Ra's...maybe she will show him THE TRAIN