Joseph Gordon-Levitt to Play The Riddler in Batman 3?
(Fact: the picture illustrates nothing except for how Joseph Gordon-Levitt is beautiful, which is a given. Behold.)
Now that Inception is out, the media’s focusing its attention on Christopher Nolan’s next venture — Batman 3. Although Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s agents have denied it thus far, there are still some persistent rumors floating around that Nolan’s interested in JGL playing The Riddler in the next Batman installment.
Would this be a good idea? That’s hard to tell without other details about the script. Whether or not the Riddler casting comes to pass, though, I do now know that I won’t be completely satisfied unless JGL makes an appearance somewhere in that movie. He was excellent in Inception, and there’s no doubt that he could keep up with Nolan’s darker look at characters in Gotham City.
[via Paste Magazine]
‘Fast Five’ Brings Back Paul Walker, Vin Diesel, and Tyrese Gibson
Alright, 2009’s Fast and Furious wasn’t the greatest movie or anything, but it did do everybody the favor of mostly pretending like The Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift never happened. Other than Sung Kang and the trick the movie was named for, there was little point to sitting through that borefest, since it was about as entertaining playing with a pet rock.
With the fifth installment in the street racing franchise, it looks like Justin Lin and company are looking to make extra good by bringing in all the best characters from the sequels. After I saw the fourth flick, I left the theater talking loudly about how all I wanted was some Tyrese, really, come on, because he’s good at what he does, hot, and genuinely funny. Plus, the banter and homoerotic fight in the sand between him Paul Walker is something I’d like to have repeated. But no dice. That is, until now!
Tyrese Gibson (who’s Twitter icon is an animated GIF of himself getting sexy with a woman, I just want to note — an animated GIF) has posted some cast pictures recently, featuring himself, Paul Walker, Vin Diesel, Sung Kang, and Ludacris. It’s been announced that Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has also joined the cast, set to shoot in Brazil and Puerto Rico, which basically means it’s going to be a movie full of fast cars, attractive dudes, a few scenes of serious man pain, I’m sure, and violence in the name of thievery and outrunning the law, AKA Everything I Ever Want, All The Time, For Eternity.
If this movie continues to shape up this way, Fast Five will make for better blockbuster emotional porn than the Twilight saga manages to be for teenage girls and Stephanie Meyer. Hell, find a role for Taylor Lautner that includes him shooting just one person and it’s basically guaranteed. The only way they could make it better than that is to bring Michelle Rodriguez’s character back from the dead.
