We once thought they were going to be the third and forth villains in the third instalment of Christopher Nolan’s Bat-trilogy. However, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Marion Cotillard’s characters have recently been discovered has invented characters rather ones lifted from the comics.
Speculation from this website and others had Gordon-Levitt originally as the Riddler, but was quickly put on the bin heap to be then listed as the Holiday Killer; a mafia hit man who killed famous villains, and caused trouble for the Batman. And, had Cotillard as Talia Al Ghul, daughter of Raj Al Ghul from the first out for revenge and as a love interest, likely.
Now, apparently there parts are to be fabricated for the movie alone, and for the first time, for as long as I can remember something is being shown in comic book adaptation history. Creativity is taken hold. Personally, I’d usually have doubts over a move like this. As much as I love creativity, and further more appreciate how crucial it is towards cinema that creativity remains to keep cinema good it can always be a dangerous thing to do.
Christopher Nolan however is a different species. He has managed to be able to reinvent the comic-movie genre almost single handed. Sure there were successful adaptations before, but it was his variety what brought a tone of seriousness about it.
It looked past the camp, the cliché, and the array of hysterical incarnations Batman has and saw the potential of a grittier Batman. What I am trying to say is that if there’s anyone we can trust to bring creativity to Batman, it’s someone who doesn’t see creativity as adding shark repellent to a Bat-belt, or to add tighter suits, or to come up with cheaper puns (okay, I like the puns).
The characters as far as we aware will involve Cotillard playing some sort of grievance councillor for Bruce Wayne, and likely be a love interest too. Gordon-Levitt will be playing a member of Commissioner Gordon’s special task force.
These don’t sound too interesting, but for some reason I can see one of two things happening. These characters will either become insanely interesting, Nolan will flesh out their characters and they’ll end up being a crucial plot and do something what no other Batman film as done before and tiered on creativity to an already stable franchise and bring us something amazing.
Or. This has all been a rouse by the ever mysterious Christopher Nolan and his trickery will reveal itself when banners showing the Riddler start popping up around bus stations and virals of clues pop on your Facebook feed and we discover Tricky Chris as been holding back on us the whole time to deliver us something amazing. So either way, we can expect something amazing.
This is old news but seeing as this site has become a one man operation albeit with help from Chris Curry, Chris Haynes and co, I’m afraid the news on this site will be heavily based on reflection of the news. Hopefully you’ll get something out of it regardless.
Ben Doran
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