From CHUD, "Devin's out of town and having a great time abroad. And that means you have a rare chance to enjoy some main page material on the Batman Begins franchise free of venomous snark (You're welcome). And based on the following tidbit, it's earned the reprieve.
According to the scoopers at Latino Review, one of the more glaring flaws in the first flick - Katie Holmes as Blandy McYawnerson....I mean Rachel Dawes - is being corrected for the sequel, The Dark Knight. Apparently, the role will stay put, but another actress will inspire Christian Bale to abandon his not-quite-convincing gruff voice and yell her name at the top of his lungs during a high-speed chase.
I think it's the best possible option given that they actually put some work in the first film in an attempt to make her a slightly more substantial love interest than, say, Vicki Vale, or whoever Elle McPherson's character was supposed to be in Batman and Robin. You just need a better actress than Katie Holmes to take the character there. Given that pretty much all of the other casting has been rock solid thus far, I expect to get that actress this time out.
There's some other minor casting musings on the LR site, so feel free to check those out, too."
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She's terrible
From superherohype, "A spokeswoman for Katie Holmes has given The Wall Street Journal a comment on why she won't be returning as Rachel Dawes in the Batman Begins sequel, The Dark Knight.
"We never got to the negotiating stage" for the film, said Julie Polkes, Holmes' representative. "Katie was offered ["Dark Knight"] but was unable to accept the role because of scheduling conflicts. She was in the process of negotiating for another project.
Instead, Holmes will star in "Mad Money" with Queen Latifah which starts shooting in a couple of months with a budget of only $12 million"
Oh yeah, that sounds greeaat, good luck with that.
That is good news, but "Given that pretty much all of the other casting has been rock solid thus far" makes me want to raise my hand and remind the court that Heath Ledger's Joker has yet to prove himself.
The best Joker would have been young Peter O'Toole or young David Bowie.
Nicholson gave basically a stunt performance that was all about the thrill of having a "real actor" in the middle of all the FAO Schwartz nonsense (which had never happened before, except maybe for Alec Guinness).
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