Posted 13 hours ago by Josh Wigler in DC Comics, Marvel, News
How's this for a frightening thought: Nicolas Cage was almost Scarecrow in a Batman movie.
Of course, the role of psychotic psychiatrist Jonathan Crane eventually went to Cillian Murphy in Christopher Nolan's "Batman Begins." But well before that, the once and future "Ghost Rider" star was approached to stuff himself full of straw for Joel Schumacher's planned trip to Gotham in "Batman Triumphant," which would have been the director's third dance with the Dark Knight.
Posted 16 hours ago by Josh Wigler in DC Comics, News, TV
Star City is becoming quite the popular destination these days as casting continues to heat up for "Arrow," The CW's television adaptation of DC Comics' "Green Arrow" franchise.
We already know Stephen Amell has been cast as the titular emerald archer, and "Dexter" alum David Ramsey has also come on board as ex-military operative and Oliver's security expert John Diggle. Now, TV Line reports that "Once And Again" actress Susanna Thompson has joined the cast as Moira Queen, mother of Oliver.
Posted 18 hours ago by Josh Wigler in DC Comics, News
It shouldn't come as a shock to anyone who's been paying attention to "Dark Knight Rises" and its development that this film is going to have action, and plenty of it. In fact, director Christopher Nolan's third and final trip to Gotham City is going to be so action-packed, that one could describe it as a war film.
Indeed, that's exactly how "Dark Knight Rises" concept artist Tully Summers has described the upcoming comic book flick. Summers spoke with Cineweb Radio (via Batman On Film) about the film's wartime aesthetic.
"'The Dark Knight Rises' is a war movie," said Summers. "One of the things that makes [Christopher Nolan's] Batman films so good is [the realistic tone]. He often prefers something crude — a more gritty style of design — rather than something very smooth and nice. It's military aesthetic."
Posted 2/14/12 12:14 pm EST by Jeremy Gordon in DC Comics, News
It would be nice if we could stop ourselves from devouring more "Dark Knight Rises" details, but no, that doesn’t seem very possible as the film’s release date draws closer. Interviews like Total Film’s talk with producer Emma Thomas don’t help the matter very much. Talking about details like Tom Hardy’s rapport with Christian Bale and Anne Hathaway’s role, Mrs. Christopher Nolan, as she’s otherwise known, was half-forthright, half-coy.
"Tom made a massive physical transformation for the role... It really is an intense performance," Thomas said. "He finally feels like a match for Batman – both physically and mentally."
Posted 2/13/12 1:37 pm EST by Jeremy Gordon in DC Comics, News
How would you feel about meeting Christian Bale? Terrified and/or ecstatic, we presume. Tom Hardy, who plays Bane in the upcoming "Dark Knight Rises," fell somewhere in between when getting prepped to work on the film. In an interview on "The Jonathan Ross Show," Hardy describes the first time he met the titular Dark Knight, sans costume.
"When I got to L.A. to do a screen testing in the giant Bane outfit, I’d done some work," he says. "I felt strong, I’d been training. I see Christian sitting there and I didn’t have the tee-shirt pressed on, and I see his arms. I looked at him and thought, ‘I’m gonna work this.’"
Posted 2/10/12 4:23 pm EST by Terri Schwartz in DC Comics, News
Considering he already lost a copy of "The Dark Knight Rises" script, Gary Oldman knows better than to let slip the tiniest detail about the upcoming superhero movie. But that doesn't mean he can't tease the fans with very vague recollections of his time on "The Dark Knight Rises" set. And tease he does.
Oldman attended a NYC screening of "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" on Wednesday and conducted a lengthy Q&A afterwards. Collider attended the event and thus heard Oldman dish about an emotional scene starring Michael Caine as Alfred.
Posted 2/10/12 11:28 am EST by Josh Wigler in DC Comics, News
Many people are worried about how Tom Hardy will sound as Bane in "The Dark Knight Rises." Tom Hardy is not one of those people.
The actor spoke with MTV News recently on the red carpet for "This Means War," his new romantic comedy about two secret agent pals who turn against each other when they both fall for the same woman. In that movie, needless to say, you can understand Hardy with perfect clarity. That might not be the case when the third and final "Dark Knight" movie hits theaters in just a few months, but Hardy himself isn't worried even in the slightest.
"Not at all," he told MTV when asked if he was worried about the finished product of Bane's voice. "I trust Christopher Nolan implicitly. I'm not worried at all about people understanding him mumbling away."
Posted 2/9/12 2:02 pm EST by Terri Schwartz in DC Comics, News, TV
The casting continues to come together for the CW's upcoming Green Arrow pilot. "Arrow" has already found its titular superhero in the form of Stephen Amell, and now it seems to have found its bodyguard Diggle as well.
Variety is reporting that David Ramsey, who can currently be seen on CBS's "Blue Bloods" as the mayor of New York, has landed the role of John Diggle. When the character descriptions for "Arrow" were revealed back in January, Diggle was one of the four main protagonists of the show.
Posted 2/9/12 1:40 pm EST by Josh Wigler in DC Comics, News
You thought you'd seen the last of "Smallville." Well, you thought wrong!
Clark Kent finally strapped the blue and red tights on during the "Smallville" series finale last May, but the fun doesn't end there—you'll continue to believe that a man can fly in the pages of "Smallville Season 11," a new weekly digital-first comic coming from DC Comics in April. "Batgirl" writer and "Smallville" veteran Bryan Q. Miller is teaming up with frequent collaborator Pere Perez for the series.
Head on over to MTV Geek for more details!
Posted 2/9/12 11:23 am EST by Josh Wigler in DC Comics, News
Few superheroes are as secretive as Batman. The Caped Crusader has an entire cave filled with secrets (don't ask about the Tyrannosaurus Rex), his identity is guarded more heavily than Fort Knox, and the methods to his madness remain a mystery to everybody but his closest confidants.
I mean, think about what Batman might do if he trusted you with one of his most prized possessions, only to find that you spilled the secrets to someone else, purposely or otherwise. This is a guy who runs around at night dressed like a bat, punching people in their faces, and stringing them up by their ankles for the cops to clean later. It wouldn't be pretty, right?
So you can imagine "Dark Knight Rises" actor Gary Oldman's shock and horror upon losing a copy of Christopher Nolan's Batman script once upon a time. Yes, that's a thing that happened.