Aronofsky’s Batman, and Holmes jumps ship.
This news broke on several sites(via) over the weekend, and is sweet sweet music to most peoples ear's. Katie Holmes (AKA mother of the new messiah) will not be returning to her role in the next batman film 'The Dark Knight'. Apparantly she walked away from the part and turned down the $2 million dollar offer to star in a low budget British comedy remake called 'Mad Money' instead. Pfffff yeah right. Firrrreedddd!
So now according to batman-on-film 'Racheal McAdams', a much better and much hotter actress has been cast in Katie Holmes's part (or at least a similar role… AKA screencandy). The whos-playing-who conjecture for 'The Dark Knight' has been all over the place for months, so whether the McAdams rumour turns out to be true or not remains to be seen.
Another interesting little Batman titbit (while we're on the subject) cropped up at Movie-Hole yesterday in a transcript of a Q&A session with Darren Aronofsky:
Daniel Estrella, New York City : What was your take on Batman going to be like? Were you going in the direction Chris Nolan went, or would you have retained some of the dark fantasy feel that Tim Burton brought to the character? What villain(s)would have been there to battle Batman, and would you have retold the origin story, or pulled a Singer and made your film a continuation of the past series?
Darren : I was never planning to direct Year One. I was more interested in writing a screenplay with Frank Miller on Batman. My pitch was always very realistic. I wasn't interested in fantasy, I was interested in the psychology of a real man dressing in a disguise to pay out real vengeance. The batmobile was a souped up lincoln continental with a bus engine. It was technical and rusty and extremely violent. They would have never let us have violence.
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January 31st, 2007 at 4:26 am
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