From avclub, The time for rumors and speculation is, alas, at an end: Anne Hathaway will play Catwoman and Tom Hardy will play Bane in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises. Of course, the press release never mentions the “cat” word, saying only that Hathaway will play “Selina Kyle,” suggesting that the film could be focused primarily on her origin story, or that it’s trying to preserve the surprise of Selina’s transformation into Catwoman from those select few people who would be interested in seeing a Batman film yet have somehow avoided finding out that they are one and the same. In which case, spoiler alert, we guess. As for Hardy’s role, Bane is well known in Bat-lore as the venom-addicted super-soldier who snapped Batman’s spine in the “Knightfall” saga, setting off one of the grimmest story arcs in the comic’s history. But seeing as there’s no indication of any sudden incorporations of Robin, let alone any brainwashed grad students named Jean-Paul, something tells us Nolan isn’t going there this time. (Although that would be a pretty cruel way to end his trilogy.)
3 comments:
Hmm. I like Anne Hathaway. Could work.
This is terrible, terrible casting. Unless it's brilliant, which it could be.
Pfeiffer as Selina Kyle (with glasses, perm etc.) was typical Tim Burton nonsense that has nothing to do with filmable reality. Hathaway could do her "Devil Wears Prada" dorky employee routine.
The problem is when Catwoman's got to bust out the quasi-dominatrix persona and get all Jolie on Batman's ass, and I just can't see Hathaway reaching for that successfully. Mila Kunis or Emma Stone could do it very well.
I'm wait and see on Hathwoman, just because she's got the level of talent that may pull off an appealing transformation (and I never thought Heath Ledger could be Joker, and I was wrong about that).
But fuck Bane. Bane's a stupid character from the 90s and doesn't deserve to be in movies.
(Nothing wrong with the 90s, mind you, but there's lots more Bat-lore to draw from.)
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