Heath would have wanted it this way.
A few weeks ago, Gary Oldman let it slip that the next Batman film would begin shooting next year. Michael Caine, in an interview last March, said he believed the Riddler would be involved in this one, which added more fuel to ridiculous rumors like the one about Eddie Murphy playing the Riddler. Well, hold on to your goofy hats because here’s another steaming pile of speculation coming at you.
Cinefools just reported that director Chris Nolan has dropped out of filming for The Prisoner, which was 1 of 2 movies he was set to film before the 3rd Batman. With 1 less film in production, shooting for the 3rd Batman may start sooner. Here’s 4 other numbers I forgot to cram into this 1 paragraph: 18, 32, 8, 69, HIKE!
As for The Prisoner, it may have a tougher time moving ahead without Nolan attache– OH WHO CARES? BATMAN!!!
~ robopanda
Sorry, folks, those are the rules - Batman sequel news, no matter how small or unconfirmed, means I have to drop everything and cover it. The word out of Comic Con (from various sites) is that a not-at-all-joking-sounding Gary Oldman said that the next Batman begins shooting next year, “but you didn’t hear it from me.” …And that’s pretty much the whole story. Meanwhile, no one has said anything about director Chris Nolan coming back, and with him busy shooting Inception, it’s hard to say whether he’d have time to shoot a Batman sequel, if what Oldman says is even true. So does that mean they’re hiring a new director? Yes. Yes they are. Brett Ratner will come aboard to direct, Christian Bale will be replaced by Will Smith’s son, Cher plays his love interest, and Shia LaBeouf will play the villain, a midget prostitute that murders.
This one’s just called “No One Wants to Play Sega with Harrison Ford.” Artwork by Brandon Bird.
Matt Lauer interviewed Christian Bale on the Today Show this morning, where they compared fashionable brown buzz cuts. Okay not really, but Matt Lauer of course read the first line of Peter Travers’ lame Dark Knight review (Lighting bolt… strikes a blanket? A blanket we call movies? What kind of retard metaphor is that?). Meanwhile, Christian Bale spoke in the strangest accent I’ve ever heard. He’s somehow landed halfway in between a Brit and a New Jersey cab driver. Ehh yo, Tony don’t brew dis kinna tea fa just anybody, ya dig me, guv?
I mean, I’d still do him, I’m just sayin. Why so serious?
Nothing gives marketing douches bigger douche boners than the possibility of creating a “phenomenon”, big events that allow them to pretend they’re affecting the world in some way more important than just helping people buy things they don’t really need; and nothing is more pathetic than a bunch of tools playing an advertising-inspired scavenger hunt in the hopes of winning a prize… a prize which is, guess what! More advertising! Hooray! Please oh please can I wear a shirt advertising your product!
Nevertheless, that’s precisely what happened in New York Tuesday night when a whole heap of dickweeds converged on City Hall for a Dark Knight "viral event" that culminated in the bat signal being projected onto the Woolworth’s building. Oh the wonder of projected light! Imagine what would happen if we used a series of projected images, producing the illusion of motion! My what a wondrous wonder that would be!
Anyway, congratulations to everyone involved on winning my undying contempt. See a douchey intern from MTV describe the action, after the jump!
