New Batman Casting News

Michael Caine felt extra chatty at the Toronto Film Festival where he’s promoting Is There Anybody There? The Batman star spilled some major casting beans.

“When Christopher [Nolan] said we were going to do The Dark Knight next,” related Caine, who plays Bruce Wayne’s loyal butler, Alfred Pennyworth, “I said, ‘What’s the story?’ and he said The Joker. I said, ‘Oh, s–t! How are you going to top Jack [Nicholson]?’ He said, ‘Well, I’ve cast Heath Ledger.' And I went ‘Ha! I couldn’t top Jack, but if anyone could, maybe Heath could.’ And he did…I was with [a Warner Bros.] executive and I said, ‘Are we going to make another one?’ They said ‘Yeah.’ I said, ‘How the hell are we going to top Heath? And he says ‘I’ll tell you how you top Heath — Johnny Depp as The Riddler and Philip Seymour Hoffman as The Penguin.’ I said, ‘S–t, they’ve done it again!’”

That is a movie we would LOVE to see!