• Deadshot would make an awesome film villain, surely?!

• Mad Hatter anyone?

• I would pay cash monies ...

• All future Batman movies should have the writers throwing darts at a board to determine the villain they have to write a serious movie about. The character need not be serious, but they have to do their damnedest to write a serious movie, regardless of the villain they get. I would love to see a writer try to write a serious movie with Calendar Man as the villain.

• Seems like that's where he's headed. Damn! And already, he has waaaaaaay too many characters in Rises for the story be stable enough.

• Luis Guzmán!

• Man, how fucking awesome would that be? If some filmmaker had the balls to fake a stars death so convincingly even his family believes he's dead, then bring him back in the next movie? It would make Nolan a horrible human being, but he would be the most famous filmmaker who ever lived. And Heath Ledger would be given every award ever.

• would rather see clay face as an extra villian. and odds are if the scarecrow is back its proably a camoe or back up for bane. next up nolan confirms robin is in the film.

• Hellgrammite, baby!

• I would buy those goggles with a quickness.

• "I don't know why he'd need to be in Dark Knight Rises though." Because he's awesome.  That's why.

• I like how this is pretty much gearing up to suck as massively and be soul-crushingly disappointing as Spiderman 3. Wait, did I say like? I meant am pissed. I am pissed.

• What, no love for The Archer?

• Joseph GL is clearly Detective Blake, a reference to Catman!

• I assumed Scarecrow was in because Cillian Murphy's in the latest trailer. At least, I'm pretty sure he's in the latest trailer. Maybe I had my Cillian Murphy goggles on. :)

• Tweedledee!  But no Tweedledum! That's just gratuitous.

• Yes, heaven forbid people actually have a different opinion in taste and quality than you do! SHOCK. They must only be saying it just so they can disagree. I'm assuming that's why you personally don't like the things you do, right?

• Ledger's death was also an elaborate hoax so his appearance in DARK KNIGHT RISES (not the real movie title, another hoax) would be a shocking surprise.

• Because Scarecrow is truly Batman's opposite, Crane vs. Wayne.

• Well, at some point some people decided that Jack Nicholson was a bad Joker (ideal casting at the time!) and that Star Wars Episode 1 was redeemable...even good. So there's accounting for tastes or the shifting tides of nerd nitpickery.

• Victor Zsasz is pretty much Patrick Bateman a few years after the end of American Psycho. And he'd be the sort of character Nolan might use. /ponder

• You forgot Edward Norton

• I really love that they're doing this. I'm sure it goes without saying Ledger would have returned had he lived. These movies have made a point to not kill every single villain they have which is nice. Plus I love me some Scarecrow.

• Spot on.

• ... and trilogy concludes as Batman flies to Mars on a giant Batarang of his own design ...

• Fabman Begins, perhaps?

• You lost me (and probably everybody but the 3 people who liked your comment) at "Ledger's mediocre performance". No need to read anything else you might think after that.

• Well, it's a musical number about neon nipples. So it's a three-fer.

• put the Ventriloquist in!!!

• and ken watanabe as a false ra's.

• Is there any hope that everything in the movie will be an elaborate hallucination caused by the Scarecrow's toxins because's he the secret main villain of the movie like he deserves instead of some punk who keeps being taken out like a wee girl?

• I HEARD he's gonna add nipples. And a musical number. And maybe a little neon.

• it had to be. math doesn't lie.

• Batman Begins was pretty damn awesome.

• Get Steve Martin to play him.

• They don't like them so they can say they don't like them.

• Not to mention Crazy Quilt!

• I want Riddler! And I want John Astin to play him!

• I don't like them because they're highly mediocre overall and, worse, they're both kind of boring.  They're not much different from an average Michael Bay movie.

• "BEES. My God."

• You shall all face the wraith of the Cavalier!

• Not if Kite-Man can help it.

• I was just scrolling past this article on the main page, and boy is Batman's right hand in the perfect place to cause a bit of confusion at a quick glance.

• All shall bow down to The Killer Moth!

• You really have hopes of getting King Tut in this movie?  Because if you don't you shouldn't say it.  Chinese curse: May you get what you wish for.

• (sigh... as he rises to the bait) ... mainly it's because Nolan's directing has been terrible. The acting has been bad -- I'm sorry, Ledger's basically mediocre performance was colored by his death -- and the story lines are convoluted, and then there's the "action" scenes that make zero sense and totally defy logic, even logic in Batman movie terms (the chase scene, cmon!).  I feel like usually I'm line with most of the major opinions here (Thundercats, fuck yeah! Superman Returns, ahhhggh!!), but not this. I'm befuddled why so many people like these movies. Really. I'm not trying to start an argument for argument's sake. 

• I'm still hoping the Catwoman shots are an elaborate hoax. I fucking hate her half assed love interest/villain role; I take a psychotic serial killer over some stupid hot chick any day of the week thank you very much.

• That would totally make the movie for me.   Even if the rest turned out just "meh."

• fair enough. I'll give you that.  not really doubting the next on e just making fun of past flops.

• eh, it's not like Chris Nolan has done wonders with ensemble casts before.

• Whereas we know for a fact that stuffing a crippled Gary Oldman in a bed to mumble incoherently is box office gold! (I say bring in the villains. I need Deadshot, specifically, for my plot-prediction quadfecta to be kind-of complete: Catwoman, Bane and Deadshot, hired as mercenaries by the city undercover to hunt and remove Batman as a complement to official efforts, but Catwoman turns out to be Talia al'Ghul and their team is part of the League of Shadows. Can't be the case now that Talia and Kyle are separate characters, but still...)

• ... ....... SUDDENLY "TURN OFF THE DARK" MAKES TOTAL SENSE!!!

• Isn't Deadshot also in this movie? Or did I dream that? Anyway, it made sense to have Scarecrow in The Dark Knight because he got away at the end of Batman Begins, so his capture at the beginning of The Dark Knight established that he isn't still running around. I don't know why he'd need to be in Dark Knight Rises though.

• Too short.

• Calendar Man anyone?

• Second only to Batman and Robin! Three heros! Three villains! It was three times as good as the first!!

• Some people don't like these movies? If so, that's the first I've heard of it.

• and those eyes!

• Well Nolan doesn't give a shit about the Batman Character,so that's one less to worry about.

• I hope they don't do the Lazarus Pit. It sort of defeats the purpose of Ra's Al Ghul in the first film.

• It's true: 'Batman Forever' was awesome!

• Gotham will bow before Roy LaPost! (aka King Plasto)

• Damn I love that Batman picture. He looks so cool, ready to kick some ass on behalf of Mr and Mrs Wayne. Why don't some people like these movies again? 

• Don't we all? Such cheekbones....

• Louie the Lilac's day will come

• The character development in this film is going to be shoddy at best - unless the movie is, like, 4 hours long! oO

• I thought the point of entering the kill code in the surveillance system was a story way to keep Lucius from leaving.  It showed that Bruce trusted Lucius judgment on the matter, and was willing to give up the system if/when Lucius drew the line.  Sure, Lucius still had reason to leave, simply because Bruce hid the system because he probably already knew Lucius would object.  At the same time, that might give Lucius even more reason to stay, simply because it shows Bruce needs an angel looking over his shoulder. The best story excuse I'd see for Lucius to not reappear is Batman going underground, burning all the traces between Batman and those around Bruce Wayne.

• Joseph Gordon-Levitt  will be Bat Mite

• And contrast that cast line-up with "The Dark Knight," which we knew in advance would have the Joker, Two-Face, Scarecrow, Sal Maroni, whoever Nestor Carbonell would be playing, whoever William Fichtner would be playing, Alfred, Gordon, Lucius, and Maggie Gyllenhaal. And "Batman Begins," which included Scarecrow, Ra's al Ghul, Carmine Falcone, Mr. Zsasz, Flass, Henri Ducard, Alfred, Gordon, Lucius, Katie Holmes, and Rutger Hauer. I trust that Nolan can handle a big cast.

• This movie will rock. It will always rock. It has always been set to rock.

• If people still haven't figured out that Christopher Nolan has an obsession with Cillian Murphy yet, they never will.

• eh, it's not like stuffing too many villains into a superhero movie ever hurt it.

• I'm rather partial to the Bookworm, myself.

• also, if i may ramble again..... the score for the first two grew to IMPLY....imply, not sound like, the Burton movie soundtrack and the animated series stuff. i'm sure it has been noticed before, and it makes sense. pure speculation here, but i think this score will directly quote the main theme at least once at a crucial awesome ball tingly moment. DUHHHH... DUN DUH DUH DAAAA DUH...DA DUNNNN.

• fuck off.

• i am starting to think nolan is smoke screening the cast. stay with me here..... get some famous people to work at scale for a favor. have a cheap b-unit film some stuff to throw us off and use it for a funny documentary about how we got fooled (or a mini movie). leak some inconsequential but real footage as well. meanwhile, the real filming goes smoothly, and an awesome movie is made that has no hype for it, but all the attention in the world. probably not, but wouldn't it be cool?

• Is it too late for Patrick Bateman to be the main bad guy?

• Also in included: Black Mask, Deathstroke, Spoiler, and a dog with bees in its mouth so when it barks it shoots bees at you.

• Gee, no one's made that observation every time there's a new casting rumor.

• It's no secret that I was not a fan of Nolan's Batman flicks, but I certainly would have loved more Murphy time. I thought he was great in Begins.

• I heard that rumor too, but there was some talk a while back about Hardy getting lifts so he'd be at least as tall as Bale and Freeman...but no context beyond "Morgan Freeman is tall". I hope he's still around, I mean if not, who designed the Batwing?

• Meh... is Nolan trying to outdo Spider-man 3? 

• inb4: Is the Joker in it?

• Is Lucius Fox in this one? I had heard rumors that he was not. Although its understandable story wise with him being mad about Batman's patriot act like surveillance in Dark Knight, it made me sad to hear he wouldn't be in the final one. If it is confirmed he is in DKRises, you may have just made my day.

• I'm still hoping for Egghead

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