Philip Seymore Hoffman and Johnny Depp confirmed by Caine for Batman 3!

UPDATE 9-8-2008

Philip Seymore Hoffman has said,

Some friend of mine told me he read that. First I heard of it.”

Source: Get the Big Picture

9-7-2008

“I was with [a Warner Bros.] executive and I said, ‘Are we going to make [a sequel to The Dark Knight]?’ They said yeah. I said, ‘How the hell are we going to top Heath? And he says ‘I’ll tell you how you top Heath — Johnny Depp as The Riddler and Philip Seymour Hoffman as The Penguin.’ I said, ‘Shit, they’ve done it again!’” [Laughs]

This is a quote from Micheal Caine, the first person within the Batman franchise, to comment on a sequel and casting rumors. I see Press Releases and statements being made right now over at the WB studios in regards to this. The quote comes from none other than an interview with the MTV Splashpage, where we read the Captain America rumor of Will Smith.

All I have to say is that we totally called Hoffman as the Penguin and I certainly hope they go our way of developing him as a Bugsy Malone type corporate-gangster running a mob war in the city with the remnants of the Falcone crime family and the Marconi crime family.

We also ran an article awhile ago based on the National Enquirer or WENN saying Depp was gonna be pegged for the role of the Riddler.

Assuming this is true…we at Fused Film were totally right! So we shall rub in faces! HAHA!

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Kevin Coll

Kevin has been a film fan his entire life and it is the one thing he truly loves to talk about. He considers himself an industry critic rather than a film critic. This is because he likes analyzing the news, the process of a film’s production, the film business aspects and the trends, rather than the finished product, although that doesn’t keep him from doing a movie review. His current day job is a Marketing Communications Coordinator for a real estate development and hospitality management company based in Memphis, TN. He is also a freelance social media consultant, pr guru. He is a contributing writer at Geeks of Doom under the pseudonym, “Graceland Geek”. He is obsessed with Batman, pairs of “Chucks” Converse shoes, being the next big PR and Advertising Executive of a major company and he loves XBOX 360, soccer and the guitar. Email him at - kcoll@fusedfilm.com

2 Responses to “ Philip Seymore Hoffman and Johnny Depp confirmed by Caine for Batman 3! ”

  1. Warners can do better than those two. The characters name is BLACK MASK, and he has earned the right to be on film. There was an underground street-fight that no one wants to talk about, but it did happen. IT DID HAPPEN.

  2. So much for “rub in faces”

    Remove foot from mouth……