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With all the campaign talk, it’s starting to feel like an election year: Johnny Depp for the Riddler, Angelina Jolie versus Maggie Gyllenhaal returning from the dead for Catwoman.
But there’s a dark horse who wants to get his name on the ballot — a name you might not expect — Brian Austin Green wants the role of the Riddler in the next Batman film.
“I would love to be the Riddler,” Brian Austin Green told MTV News.
In case you’re thinking “WTF? David Silver?” — let us remind you that in the years since “Beverly Hills, 90210,” Green has rebooted himself as an actor. Perhaps not to the same degree as Christopher Nolan rebooted Batman, or Heath Ledger the Joker, but check out Green playing himself in “Domino” (for a much-appreciated sense of self-deprecation) or Derek Reese in “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles” (where he’s barely recognizable), and you’ll come to see that Green has progressed significantly since the days when he competed with Tori Spelling for worst actor.
Green knows it’s a long shot, but despite his role on “Terminator,” “I’d like to be in the next ‘Batman,’ even though I am busy killing machines and people,” he said. (We hope he just means on the show).
“I hope to God that they don’t try to replace Heath and have the Joker,” Green added. “And Two-Face is gone.” So they need a new villain, and the Riddler makes sense,” he said. Not that he’s thought it so far ahead that he actually knows what he’d want to do with the Riddler, however.
“That’s impossible to answer now,” Green said. “That would take years of preparation. It’s tough. Heath set the bar at a new level, which I think is fantastic for comic book lovers and movie lovers. He changed the face of what people expect out of those films. If you watch the old ones, I mean, they were great for what they were, having Danny Elfman’s music, but this is a new level.”
source: [mtv]
It’s no surprise that, with the success of ‘The Dark Knight,’ talk of a third installment in Nolan’s ‘Batman’ series has begun.
One former Batman foe is already speaking up about which villain should appear, and who should play the iconic character.
Julie Newmar, 71, who starred as Catwoman in the original ‘Batman’ TV series with Adam West as the caped crusader, wants mother-of-six-and-counting Angelina Jolie to don the feline suit.
“Angelina would own the part. My industry friends tell me she has made inquiries about the role. I can understand how it would pique her interest.
Catwoman is Batman’s one true love. She’s tremendously popular with women because she’s both a heroine and a villainous. When you look at the staggering box office of this current film, which actress wouldn’t want to jump in?”
source: ‘Batman’ icon Julie Newmar says Angelina Jolie should play her old role [ny daily news]
In Day 11, The Dark Knight surpassed Iron Man to become 2008’s highest grossing film plus the superhero sequel cracked the all-time Top 20 in the process.
Warner Bros. generated $10.5M on Monday to raise its unbelievable cume to $324.3M which was more than enough to soar past Marvel’s metal man which has taken in $315M to date since its early May bow. Knight also climbed to number 18 on the all-time domestic blockbusters chart just ahead of Shrek the Third which banked $321M last summer.
Monday’s gross was down 57% from last Monday’s towering $24.5M haul. Given its current pace, Knight might be able to reach the $350M mark by the end of its second week of release. That would mean a jump up to number 13 on the all-time list ahead of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers by the time the third weekend begins.
As if it hasn’t broken enough records, The Dark Knight also became the top-grossing blockbuster in Warner Bros. history surpassing the $317.6M of 2001’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. Ticket prices were lower back then, but the new Batman adventure will still be able to zoom past the boy wizard in admissions in the coming days.
The Joker and friends are on course to boost the cume to roughly $390M by the end of this coming weekend and then blast through the $400M mark mid-next week.
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