‘THE DARK KNIGHT RISES’ Production Schedule Update – Script By January, Filming By May

MICHAEL CAINE

Source: EmpireOnline.com

[THE DARK KNIGHT RISES] shoot will kick off in the summer and be done and dusted in six months. Per MICHAEL CAINE:

“Emma [Thomas], the producer, said we’d get the script in January. Christopher said: ‘Script in January, shoot in May, finish in November.'”

Read more HERE.

‘SPIDER-MAN’ Reboot Update: MARTIN SHEEN, DENIS LEARY Join Cast

MARTIN SHEEN

DENIS LEARY

Source: SuperHeroHype.com, HollywoodReporter.com

MARTIN SHEEN is in final talks to play Uncle Ben in Columbia Pictures’ untitled Spider-Man movie.

[DENIS] LEARY will play police captain George Stacy, [Gwen Stacy’s] father [played by EMMA STONE] who frequently came into contact with the web-slinging superhero.

Read more HERE and HERE.

They join ANDREW GARFIELD as Peter Parker/Spider-Man and RHYS IFANS who has been cast as Dr. Curt Connors/The Lizard.

BATMAN 3 Gets A Title: ‘THE DARK KNIGHT RISES’ – RIDDLER Will NOT Be The Villian

CHRISTOPHER NOLAN has spoken: New BATMAN movie to be titled; 'THE DARK KNIGHT RISES'

Source: HeroComplex.com

Christopher Nolan’s third Batman film will be called “The Dark Knight Rises” and though the Gotham City auteur isn’t ready to reveal the villain of his 2012 film, he did eliminate one of the big contenders: “It won’t be the Riddler,” Nolan said.

Read more HERE.

No 3-D either. As THRALL WORLD previously posted, TOM HARDY has been cast as the likely and still unknown villian.

SPIDER-MAN Reboot Update: Villian Revealed – RHYS IFANS To Play THE LIZARD

RHYS IFANS

Source: TheWrap.com

Or should we say IFANS – who was just confirmed for the role of the villian a couple days ago – is playing the guy who turns into the Lizard. This wouldn’t be the first time producers involved with the franchise have flirted with having the Lizard as the principle foe in a SPIDER-MAN movie as THRALL WORLD posted late last year just before SONY decided to scrap everything and start over with a new creative team and cast.

No confirmation from SONY just yet but word on the street is that:

Rhys Ifans will play Dr. Curt Connors, better known as The Lizard, in Marc Webb’s “Spider-Man.”

Read more HERE.

SPIDER-MAN vs. THE LIZARD in new SPIDER-MAN reboot

BATMAN 3 Update: TOM HARDY Joins Cast As Villian? Role A Secret..

TOM HARDY

Source: Deadline.com

[Tom] Hardy [STAR TREK: NEMESIS] has been set by his INCEPTION director CHRIS NOLAN for a lead role in the next Batman film at Warner Bros.

Insiders are keeping the role secret and won’t even say if he’s up for a villain role, but that seems a reasonable assumption.

Read more HERE.

Tom Hardy was solid in INCEPTION, had an icy presence as the foil to CAPTAIN PICARD in the STAR TREK: NEMESIS movie and has already been cast as the lead in the upcoming MAD MAX remake/reboot; MAD MAX: FURY ROAD. Watching him go head to head with CHRISTIAN BALE in a third NOLAN directed BATMAN movie sounds very interesting indeed..

'STAR TREK: NEMESIS' - TOM HARDY (left) and PATRICK STEWART face off

BATMAN 3 Update: CHRISTOPHER NOLAN Confirms He’s Directing – MICHAEL CAINE Says Filming To Begin May 2011 – Who Is The Villian??

BATMAN 3: CHRISTIAN BALE and director CHRISTOPHER NOLAN reteaming for the follow up to THE DARK KNIGHT

Source: EmpireOnline.com, ComingSoon.net

CHRISTOPHER NOLAN making the gossip rounds for the past several days – a lot of it surrounding his producing role on SUPERMAN: THE MAN OF STEEL. But what about directing the inevitable follow-up to THE DARK KNIGHT – which has never been 100% confirmed but that most of us in the blogosphere have pretty much taken for granted?

“It’s becoming inevitable, I’ll put it that way,” says Nolan. “I feel myself falling into it, I guess. And getting it all figured out and I’m pretty excited about what we’re doing so… If I haven’t announced it, I think that people probably all know at this point that I’m doing it.”

And:

“I think you can at this point, yes [I will be directing BATMAN 3].”

According to Sir MICHAEL CAINE who is expected to reprise his role as Bruce Waynes mentor/butler Alfred, filming will –

“probably start in May next year…”

And finally:

Chris [Nolan] and co-writer Jonathan Nolan are not telling anyone who the villain will be in the new film.

THRALL WORLD would love to see Nolan tackle the KNIGHTFALL storyline so we would say BANE!! But the whole point of Nolan’s so-far incredible BATMAN retelling was the YEAR ONE BATMAN and BANE didn’t show up on in GOTHAM until Year 10 (???) or something like that.

Announced BATMAN 3 release date: July 20, 2012.