It's currently rumored that due to Heath Ledger's untimely death after the filming of Dark Knight and the open ended fate of The Joker at the films end we could be seeing one of 3 new bad-guys (or maybe just the one) in the next film. It's been mentioned by Gary Oldman in a recent interview that The Riddler is the proposed main villain for Christopher Nolan's third installment. This also seems to be the word on the web but the word also includes some other news too. Not only may Johnny Depp be playing The Riddler (I can't see that being a bad thing) but Angelina Jolie is being touted as Catwoman and Philip Seymour Hoffman as Penguin... Interesting...
The latter two characters have been played down by people linked to the movie franchise but all 3 are characters that would seem to fit into Nolan's "real world" version of Batman and wouldn't be too hard to imagine. Just the thought of Ms Jolie in leathers or PVC purring and being kitty-like is enough for me to think that no one else could possibly fit that role in my mind ever again. Hoffman? Not a biggie to replace, but that's pretty good casting in my eyes.
Again we'll have to wait quite a while to see what happens.
