Female leads for "The Dark Knight Rises"

Looks like Nolan is planning to start casting for two female leads in his new Bat-film. One will, of course, be a new romantic interest for Bruce Wayne, while the other seems to be a/the new antagonist.

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Given some of the rumored choices from that article, I'd say kill two birds with one stone and give us either Catwoman or Talia! Or both!!

Other than that, I think I'd be happy if we finally got a film version of Silver St. Cloud for Bruce's new arm-candy...

My guess would be its actually the same role, and they're just throwing people off. Most/all will read for both parts, which gives them what they need to decide. I'm expecting and hoping for Catwoman, and with the differences between Selina and Catwoman, at least in public, the actress would have to be able to play both roles.

Considering the buildup they've done around Ra's al Ghul and the League of Assassins in Begins, I'd actually much rather see Talia... Plus, Burton actually did well on Catwoman, I thought, and whoever gets the role has to live with being weighed against Michelle Pfeiffer wearing a suit she was vacuum-sealed into.

ummm....Selena Kyle isn't much different in personality from her Catwoman identity

at least not in the comics

I don't know about the current iteration of The Catwoman, but from an historical perspective, I'd like to see them go back to her roots where she was a Mistress of Disguise and the ringleader of a criminal band. Perhaps they could do something like Lee Meriwether's 'Miss Kitka' from the 1966 'Batman' movie (but significantly less campy).

Honestly, I thought that, while Michelle Pfeiffer did a wonderful job of over-the-top characterization as 'Catwoman', that was *not* the real Selina. That was a campy caricature. What they needed was Sean Young in a seriously-written role!

As for Silver St. Cloud ...! Yes! Yes! Yes! Especially if they explore whatever secret(s) she kept from Bruce in that series from the 1970's.

It would be great to see Talia played as she should be. Would they also cast someone to play her father? Or would she be soloing?

As long as it isn't Silver St. Cloud as she was written by Kevin Smith

::shudder::

Don't want to spoil anything, but Kevin Smith brought her back and wrote her with such stunning dialogue as this (when asked about why she calls Bruce "DeeDee"):

With dialogue like that, he'd probably be better doing the script to the Green Vomit movie that Seth Rogaine is going to be in!

And no supernatural stuff means no Poison Ivy. A woman controlling plants would be awfully silly in a movie.

Oh wait, Uma Thurman already proved that it was.

EDIT: Oh, and another possibility is Harlequin. Maybe she's trying to spring the Joker?

I really want this movie to be loaded with costumed villains with a main villain or two. Also, I think they could do without the love interest. But they could kill two birds with one stone by having Catwoman.

Batman doesn't do love interest >_<

Talia and the return of Ra's would be awesome, me and one of my flatmates were talking about it a while back.
T'be honest, I think Nolan will still pull it off whoevers in it. Unless it does the way the first set of Spiderman movies went, in that two times the charm and three is the breaker. Which'd suck...

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Poison Ivy doesn't even need to be overt. We could simply see Pamela Isley working on some project and have a voiceover of a harsher voice which would represent the Ivy persona. Kind of like the way that things were done in the 'Rose & Thorn' features in older comic books.

I concur, though, that Nolan's more serious approach to the Batman movies should be unadulterated.

I vote put in Cassandra Cain as Batgirl and have her going around killing people (expanding the idea they put in the Dark Knight) putting Batman in deeper trouble with the law.

For her background have her be trained/mentored by Talia al Ghoul who's taken over the League of Shadows after Ra's death and is continuing his plan to topple Gotham City. Having Cassandra be Batgirl accomplishes her vengeance for daddy and to keep the police busy chasing around the Bat-peeps, while her and the Scarecrow work up some kinda plan that involves FEAR toxins and the water system again or whatever.

For Bruce/Batman it gives him a chance to rehabilitate someone, give the plot a way to clear him of the Dark Knight crimes and add another member to the Bat-family without going the standard Robin formula first.

Well the League of Assassins angle does allow them to bring in Lady Shiva, which could be awesome, but it seems doubtful given the shown candidates.

But at the end of the day Poison Ivy controls plants mentally - that just not in Nolan's mindset for a reality-based Batman trilogy.

And Arkham Asylum (or City) would be the absolutely perfect vehicle for a weekly live-action Batman 1-hour TV show in my opinion.

I guess this means they're not gonna have Miley Cyrus as Bat Girl.