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Source: latimes.com
Warner Bros wants to keep this gravy train running, especially since the "Harry Potter" is moving toward a franchise expiration date and the fact that Bryan Singer's Superman reboot fizzled. But where should you start? That's easy: Call your best wardrobe designers and have them start envisioning Angelina Jolie in Catwoman's black-leather body suit. (What about the recent birth of her twins, you say? No problem. I'm guessing that new-mom Jolie will be back in lean, cat-suit shape by, oh, next week or so.)
I'm not sure anyone can actually top Heath Ledger's performance as the Joker (and you don't dare bring any other actor in portray the Joker) but it would be catnip to fanboys everywhere if Jolie was lured to your Gotham to be Catwoman opposite Christian Bale's Batman. And frankly, you have some serious limitations on where you else to turn for your next Bat-baddie.
When I visited with you a few weeks ago at the Warner lot in Burbank you told me that the franchise was best served by villians without supernatural or wild science-fiction origins. That eliminates Man-Bat, Mr. Freeze, Bane,Killer Croc and Clayface, as well as Poison Ivy's large-scale, killer-shrub tricks. Maybe you could turn to Hugo Strange and his monster men; they have some science-fiction elements, certainly, but the lurching, feral monster men wouldn't require the big CGI scenes that you're trying to avoid in your taut crime films. And, as one of the very first Batman villains (Detective Comics No. 36, way back in 1940, pre-dating the Joker), Strange would dovetail nicely with your push to take the hero back to the unsettling spook-show qualities of his earliest incarnations. If you do go Strange, how about handing the lab coat and spectacles to Ben Kingsley, who showed in "Sexy Beast" that he can match anyone's glower?
What other villains? I know we won't be seeing an flame-throwing umbrella: You mentioned when I saw you that the Penguin is "not very interesting" to you and the sour look on your face summed up your disdain for the waddling Oswald Cobblepot. I guess you could go with the Riddler (maybe Eddie Izzard, who has untapped menace beneath his eye-liner?) if you jettisoned the lime question-mark suit.
The best option seems to be Catwoman and the best Catwoman seems to be Jolie. I'm guessing we won't be seeing the Rachel Dawes character in the next film (ahem) so it's time to get Bruce Wayne a new most "Wanted" woman. Hey, maybe you've already got the litterbox ready: I caught that quick line in "Dark Knight" about the danger that cat-claws pose to the crevices in Batman's body armor. Nice. Here's hoping she and her lover-foe Batman end up fighting their way out of Arkham Asylum together or some such fight-and-flirt scenario...." latimes.com
I think she'd be a great cat woman, will give Ertha Kitt something else to be mad about.
im sick of hearing about this woman, i dont see the attraction, and michelle pfeiffer made the best catwoman.
and jack nicholson made the best joker, gawd ppl dont know talent these days.
and jack nicholson made the best joker, gawd ppl dont know talent these days.
Yes she is defently overexposed and I dont think she is all that hot.. Kinda weird lookin to me.. Plus I will never get over her making out with her brother.. Thats just gross.
that guy
who the hell cares about catwoman??? its just an excuse to have a woman dress up in leather on film. there are 800 characters id rather see a movie of than catwoman.
Snuggle72 said "im sick of hearing about this woman, i dont see the attraction, and michelle pfe..."
lol and neither do you. Ledger's Joker was fucking PHENOMENAL. I was one of the lucky who got to see the Dark Knight the day it opened, and absolutely loved what he brought to the character. He played the character exactly how he's portrayed in the graphic novels. The way Nicholson SHOULD have played him. Also, if Angelina Jolie was brought in to play Catwoman, that would be the fantasy of EVERY straight man in America, whether they admit it or not (this means YOU, Crimsontide1983, you sad little bigot boy.)
I haven't seen The Dark Knight yet, but I believe with everything I have that Heath Ledger's performance struck gold. As for your reference to Nicholson, the original Batman movies were toned down to the more common and more mild Batman, they weren't supposed to follow the graphic novels because at the time, that wasn't the ideal way to appeal to people. I have to agree with the Catwoman ideal, I personally liked Halle Berry as Catwoman, but I know Angelina could pull it off just as nicely.
Feralart
No need in speculating this early on, or making your own casting calls. When they work out the details they will tell us.
And Heath made Jack's Joker look like a mal-adjusted chump.
And Heath made Jack's Joker look like a mal-adjusted chump.
Your Dre
Nicholson did great as the Joker, but Heath Rocked It!!! As for Jolie as CatWoman....ugh....t
how can anyone say that wanted was a bad movie omg it was a great movie
Hell ya she would be perfect for cat woman!
angie jolie has fuck me eyes...i think she would be a great catwoman
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I think Angelina is so over exposed. Her last movie "Wanted" sucked major ass.