Okay, so, this is me being geeky. And yeah, I've had this discussion with my father and NightBeck already, but I still want to toss it out there.
So, Batman.
After I watched the movie—and got over how amazing Christian Bale does Bruce Wayne—and after I'd seen the trailer for Dark Knight (TWO DAYS LEFT!!!) last fall, I got to thinkin'. Sure, Bale is amazing, and Ledger looks like he rocked, bless him, but they pulled Michael Cain as the best Alfred ever, Liam Neeson as Henri Ducard / Ra's Al Ghul, and Morgan Freeman as basically himself or God or whoever he supposedly embodies. And they're supposed to be redoing the entire franchise, right? So I can't help but wonder....
...who's going to play the Penguin?
Who get's Two-Face? the Riddler? Mr. Freeze?
Mother of God, who becomes Catwoman, or Ivy, or (ah-hope, ah-hope, ah-hope) Harlequin? (Bane they'll probably just cast as some WWF superstar with a mask over his head.)
With the caliber of people already involved, I seriously hope the casting department moves heaven and earth to figure out the people who'll make this redux a zinger. But I'm not slavishly involved in Hollywood, so my head's not totally in the game.
Anybody care to shoot me some names?
Edit: Come to think of it, since Joker's actor unfortunately died, the circumstance provides a great scene-entrance for Harlequin. But that's a bit dark of me.
