Let the Debate Begin: Who Will Be the Next Batman Villain?
The Dark Knight has only been released for a few days, yet talk of the next Batman installment has already begun.
Specifically, rumors are circulating about who might portray the next enemy of the Caped Crusader, assuming The Joker is not resuscitated by a new actor (an incredibly unlikely possibility, in our opinion).
You can most likely count out extreme, caricature-like baddies such as Mr. Freeze. But that still leaves a wide open field of options. Just don't ask director Christopher Nolan to name his favorite yet.
"I'm clueless right now," he told MTV. "All I can think about is taking a vacation — for a month!"
Other cast members from The Dark Knight did weigh in with their views, however.
"I always liked the Riddler," Gary Oldman said. "I liked the whole Riddle aspect. I loved the suit."
Who will replace The Joker as Batman's main rival in the next installment of this franchise?
Nestor Carbonell, who plays the mayor of Gotham City in the current movie, would go with a sexier villain.
"Catwoman, you can always bring her back," he said. "You can never see enough of her."
Except when she's the star of her own awful movie, that is (no offense, Halle Berry).
Remember, Carbonell added, like his relationship with Harvey Dent, Batman and his new foe might not always start out on opposite sides.
"What I really like is when you turn people into villains, when you see them flip," the actor said. "That's a great twist. And there's certain people you see in this one, certain characters who you didn't realize could go the other way, who could show up in the next one in an unexpected way."
July 22nd, 2008 6:59 PM
The Riddler....by Johnny Depp
July 23rd, 2008 2:08 PM
(reply to BOB)
Johnny Depp?
that could be interesting.
July 25th, 2008 2:19 PM
I think you could possibly bring Joker back played by Daniel Day Lewis
July 26th, 2008 11:02 AM
Hey i think Daniel Day Lewis would be a great joker, I'm liking that, cause he payed tribute to the legendary Heath so it's only fitting that he should take it not that Johnny couldn't do it but Lewis would be better to follow on from Heath. RIP Loving the clips of him as the Joker !
July 26th, 2008 3:23 PM
Daniel Day Lewis is a good runner for the Joker, but I really don't think the Joker should be brought back into it until a much, much later movie. Heath did far to good a job, and untill that image is out of peoples heads, it should be left alone.
I really like the idea of Harley Quinn. She could be just a regular phycotic girl compleatly infatuated with the Joker and tring to take revenge on Batman for putting him away. I really like the Riddler, but not Johnny Depp. I like Johnny Depp, but I don't think he's the best for the role.
July 27th, 2008 2:06 AM
pengiun OR bring back harvey dent a.k.a two face OR the riddler OR mr. freez OR pioson ivy OR bring bck the joker (wishing but wont be as good) OR maybe cat woman maybe
July 27th, 2008 11:17 AM
I heard a rumour that British actor David Tennant (he plays Doctor Who) was interested in playing the Riddler. I think he could pull that off. But we'll have to wait and see...
July 27th, 2008 9:45 PM
I think the batman will be hunted, commissioner gordon will be batmans only friend and the riddler and the catwomen will appear in the next batman
July 28th, 2008 9:56 AM
It was unfortunate that Harvey Dent aka Two-Face (supposebly) died at the end of the second. He would have made a terrific villan in the third. It is also unfortunate that Heath Ledger died, and I think that no one should replace his role as the Joker.
I think that one of the following three will be Batmans next enemy: The Riddeler (played by Johnny Depp), The Penguin, or the mercenery Bane. Anyone else, such as Mr. Freeze and Poison Ivy, is just too unbelieveble.
July 28th, 2008 12:48 PM
i think u all r dumb and wasting time let the director choose.
July 28th, 2008 8:42 PM
Riddler - My first idea and favorite is using Don Cheadle; yes he is black but he's a very good and serious actor, changing the villain's race could be interesting. I think they should completely remove the green suit though and not have him act at all zany like Jim Carrey. After Cheadle, my next favorite pick is Joaquin Phoenix.
Black Mask - William Fichtner. If you recall he played the bank manager in the opening to The Dark Knight, where he immediately opened fire on Joker's gang and asked them if they knew who they were stealing from. He clearly was some level of gangster himself, he had decent proficiency with a gun, did not fear anybody, was still alive at the end and the Joker told him a cryptic message. "What doesn't kill you just makes you... stranger." Breaking off a piece of your momma's gravestone is as strange as it gets.
July 31st, 2008 12:41 AM
This is a bit long, but bare with me, yeah, I personally think, Tiny lister (the massive convict who throws the detonator away on the boat) as 'BANE' being the main villian. after the batman is blamed for the crimes in gotham, i.e, the boat thingy. he goes for revenge, but only after the goverment experiment on him, giving him the super human strength thing. Harvey dent is not dead after his fall, he is instead moved to arkham. then i reckon, as side villian, the riddler, played by bill murray, making the riddler a more realistic character. breaks all teh convicts out of arkham releasing two-face (and the other super villains like scarecrow, penguin, catwoman(?), they only come in as minor cameos tho, to show gotham as anarchy without batman), two face then joins bane hunting for batman, cos batman came up on the coin flick, as to die. batman then, once again don's his cape to battle the escapeded psycos, this is probs done in a montage or whtever. then batman is to tired to fight anymore, then bane breaks his back like wht happens in the comics, then maybe introducing a kool robin, but nor a camp one, were talking like, jake gylenhall, with no costume, etc maybe? i dont know, those are my thoughts, tell me wht u rek
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July 31st, 2008 8:58 AM
i dont know if u heard but angelina jolie is 2 be catwoman in the next batman she would make a good villain i hope the joker comes back bcause there is a chance... he did not die in the dark knight.....
July 31st, 2008 9:51 AM
Okay I've seen Dark Knight 3 times now and had a conversation with some friends about villains in the next movie. First of all, Two Face isn't dead and neither is The Joker. They are both locked away in Arkham. I agree that the Joker should come back in another Batman movie as Daniel Day Lewis but not until the Robin and Harley Quinn characters are introduced. The Joker kills Robin in the comics and I would love to see it happen on the big screen. Although, I heard that both Mr. Nolan and Mr. Bale have said they won't do a movie with a Robin character in it...LAME! My hope is that Two Face breaks out of Arkham with the help of whichever other villain is featured in it (probably Catwoman), and they reek havoc on Gotham while Batman is vilified himself.
August 6th, 2008 4:52 PM
i'm not sure if Robin would be cool. I know he was super lame in the batman: forever. I know Joker wasn't dead in the Dark Knight, but i just can't see anybody playing the joker like Heath did, but I dunno. 2 face would be cool to come back (but I thought he died...seemed like it to me). I agree that the riddler may be too similar to the joker (though Johnny Depp is an AMAZInG actor and I have no doubt he could pull it off - assuming it was more mature and less Jim Carey like). Mr Freeze would be lame. I think the Penguin could be kind of interesting and Catwoman could be either really sweet or really stupid.
August 6th, 2008 5:39 PM
I think that they should do both the riddler and catwoman in the next movie. For the Riddler I think Johnny Depp or Crispin Glover. If they want the riddler more dorkie than go with Crispin but if they just want to go the full bad ass route use Johnny.
As far as catwoman I think they should make Rachel Dawes, aka Maggie Gyn..(how ever you spell it)hall come back as catwoman. They could do something where she is so angered by what happened to Harvey that she moves away and changes her name to Selena Kyle, goes through something similiar to Batman/Bruce in Batman Begins as far as training and then comes back to Gotham to be a kind of good guy bad guy like in the comics. Or you could go the amnesia route but thats a tad hokey. If they use Rachel as catwoman, a relationship between herself and Bruce has already been established and she knows who batman is and why he does what he does which would make her one of the more dangerous foes.
August 11th, 2008 11:35 AM
I want to see Clayface and Killer Croc. Killer Croc is a brute and has no other motivation besides liking to hurt people. With him, there would be no exposition. Batman would be doing something and Killer Croc would just slam into him. Clayface, on the other hand, is all pathos. He doesn't want to be a villain, he just feels as though he has no choice.
August 19th, 2008 3:26 PM
I think Harley Quinn should be the next villain especially cuz i saw the Joker meets Harley Queen teaser trailer on youtube.com
August 19th, 2008 4:51 PM
i think harley quinn wud be rubbish....joker 2 come bck and riddler as his accomplice played by johnny depp.whoever disagrees are stupid dipshits
August 19th, 2008 4:52 PM
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August 21st, 2008 11:06 PM
I know this will sound crazy but I think IF they bring back the Joker I think the person who could do it and look a lot like Ledger and possibly pull it off would be James Franco. Crazy I know but he kind of looks like Heath and he's not a bad actor. I know this isn't Spiderman but he could pull it off, but make Depp the Riddler and let him steal the show like Heath did. I do like the Harlan Quinn idea b/c she could be the jokers girlfriend that he talked about in the movie that he said left him b/c of the scars. What do you think?
August 22nd, 2008 5:09 PM
Very Good ideas.
However, doing the Joker is a little to risky if you ask me. Heath was perfect for that role. Why try to find someone like him.
I think a Catwoman/Penguin villin combination will be, in a sense, a remake. Same thing with Ivy and Freeze.
However, a Catwoman/ Riddler idea seems like a good idea. It would be interseting to throw in Harley into the mix.
The actors for these people would most likely be a Johney Depp as the Riddler and Angelina Jolie as Catwoman.
As Morgan Freeman said in the Dark Knight when how Batman's new suit would hold out agianst dogs he replied "It would hold off cats well."
August 25th, 2008 2:55 AM
My vote is for Joaquin Phoenix as The Joker, and Robin Williams as Mad Hatter
August 25th, 2008 9:56 PM
Jim Carey as the Riddler
August 28th, 2008 6:46 PM
Oh God! If Johnny Depp comes into the Nolan Run of Batmans, it will be the end of them for sure. No better way to ruin a good thing than to put an over-seen, horrible actor such as Johnny Depp in it. No Leigh Whannal I believe would be the PERFECT joker. He has a sense for the disturbing, he has the face and the style to pull it off to the "T" without question.
I think that too many of the people commenting on these new villians are folks who have only seen the old movies. What about a new villian like...oh I dunno, Scarface! That would be cool. Or how bout Tarantula? How bout Bruces childhood friend Tommy who later became villian "HUSH"? Come on guys...Johnny Depp?