Turns out I got the Superman vs. Batman rumors mentioned here Tuesday exactly backward. Bale is up for Batman, while Rudd is being considered to play Clark Kent. That makes much more sense…my b.
Category: Casting
Paul Rudd?
Early casting rumors for Wolfgang Petersen’s Superman and Batman have Christian Bale as The Man of Steel and Paul Rudd as the Caped Crusader. Paul Rudd…That’s horrendous.
Bond, Campion Bond.
Jason Isaacs (Black Hawk Down, The Patriot) joins The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen as Campion Bond.
Off with his head.
BBC kills the Giles Doctor Who rumors mentioned here on Tuesday.
Sci-Fi Crossover.
Current rumor has it that Rupert Giles of Buffy (Anthony Stewart Head) will take on the mantle of Doctor Who for BBC next year. That’s pretty decent casting, I suppose…now can we get Sean Bean as The Master?
No Monica as Mina (sigh).
IGN reports a number of casting changes to The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
Vancouver Pryde.
Bryan Singer casts 17-year-old Vancouver resident Katie Stuart as Kitty Pryde in X-Men 2. Pretty good call to go with an unknown but, given that so much of Kitty’s backstory was used for Rogue in the first film, how will they differentiate her from Anna Paquin?
It’s not the years, honey, it’s the mileage.
After a decade of rumors and half-starts, Harrison Ford will finally don the fedora again for Indy 4, with Spielberg directing and Frank Darabont writing (from a story by, um, George Lucas). The movie’s currently due July 2005, a month after Episode III.
Bamf!
Contrary to earlier reports about Ethan Embry, it looks like Cabaret alum Alan Cumming will play Nightcrawler in the X-Men sequel. Not what I imagined at all, but if he gets in shape he could be quite good.