Rumor: Dr. Hugo Strange in The Dark Knight Rises
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Posted on: 2010-11-18 22:58 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture
I hope we don't get stuck with a lame villain just because Nolan doesn't want to use metahumans or anymore that have been done before.
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So did Hugo Strange do anything actually, you know... villainous? Or did he just dress up like Batman.
Just looked up Black Mask on Wikipedia. Apart from his origins sounding similar to the villain's master plan in the Halle Berry Catwoman movie, Black Mask being the villain would make one intense movie.
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The villain of the next movie definitely needs to have some sort of drive to find out Batman's secret identity. It would bookend nicely with Ra's knowing about Batman/Bruce Wayne in the first movie and is a natural progression from TDK where there was a (lazy) task force trying to find out Batman's true identity. Now that he is really being hunted, I can imagine the police are pressure to uncover that little nugget.
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I dunno.. He looks more like a Bane to me.
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It's Tom Hardy. He's another one of those actors who can barely do any wrong because he's always ******* brilliant. They could give him the script to Batman Forever and he'd shine. And he very certainly can do obsessive types.
That said, I think there's a ton of characters far more interesting than Hugo Strange which would still fit the 'street level' Nolan interpretation (and who haven't been done in the last six movies). Deadshot is the first one who comes to my mind, the Electrocutioner, Firefly, Maxie Zeus, Anarky... and of course the almost regular criminals such as the Magpie, the Cluemaster or Scarface and the Ventriloquist. Not to mention the (real or perceived) anti-Batmen: the Wrath, Killer Moth, Catman and Prometheus.
Never mind that with the setup of Batman being a perceived bad guy now, they could bring in a not so villainous opponent. But that's mostly me looking for an excuse to clamor for the Suicide Squad to be in a movie. (Is the actual Suicide Squad movie still moving at any pace at all? Or is that one dead in the water?)
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I'd love practically any of the Villains if they used the Arkham Asylum designs for them, the ones found in the character biogs. I know that they made a lot of ones I'd never heard of look very cool, such as White Shark, Black Mask, Firefly, heck they made Catwoman look really good (I think she's in Arkham City)
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Hugo Strange is one of those hold-over villains from the Batman's early years who have never quite got their due, despite occasional reappearances. Nolan is more likely to tap into Strange's potential as a nemesis, and one website is suggesting that Nolan plans to use Doug Moench's graphic novel Prey as the basis for his film.
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Tom Hardy, who has been cast, looks to be the one playing the part.