News: Tom Hardy cast in Nolan's "Batman 3"

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This is one of those news bits that really has nothing to it. We don't know anything about the said movie's plot line, the rest of the cast, or whatever. But when some name pops up that has particular significance, of course it flies all over the internet. So it is with Deadline's news that Inception actor Tom Hardy has been cast in director Christopher's Nolan's follow up to 2008's The Dark Knight. And as said on Cinematical, it's hard for me to imagine Hardy playing anyone else but the villain. Of course, no one knows who the villain will be. Before I thought that the most likely villain would be the Riddler since all the other villains (Freeze, Catwoman, Penguin) are just too dumb even though the Riddler isn't exactly serious enough himself. And since the Joker is pretty much out of the picture, who's left? Even though Heath Ledger's performance has be engraved in stone and considered untouchable, part of me wishes Nolan would just cast someone else as the Joker. He's Batman's greatest villain, after all, and I could see Hardy (or Joseph Gordon-Levitt) maybe pulling it off.

However, there's another possibility. According to my brother, there's a Batman comic called Hush where a mysterious figured is going around trying to sabotage Batman's work and kills people on the side. Plus, he enlists the help of other known Batman villains to try and kill the dark knight. So this guy is sort of a crazy serial killer intent on ruining Batman and eventually killing him. Sounds like a great story to me with a lot of twists and turns. And I can definitely see Hardy doing an amazing job as a crazy killer; he definitely proved his ability to play an insane person in Bronson. Well, so it's really on speculation at this point in regards to the entire movie. Although I think we can count on Christian Bale coming back, at least, with Michael Caine and Gary Oldman too.