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    Could This Be The Face Of The Next Penguin? (And What Does Zack Snyder Want With Batman?)
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    12/30/08

    In reply to Could This Be The Face Of The Next Penguin? (And What Does Zack Snyder Want With Batman?)
    Hoffman should be Catwoman. A chubby cross-dresser out to steal stuff and make out with Batman. How's that for a twist?
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    12/30/08

    In reply to Could This Be The Face Of The Next Penguin? (And What Does Zack Snyder Want With Batman?)
    Can't we just declare a total ban on fake-looking Photoshop bullshit found on the Internets? I mean, aim for some authenticity, guys. Using a Schumacher-era font for "Batman" doesn't exactly cut it.
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    12/30/08

    @lightninglouie: Bingo
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    12/30/08

    @lightninglouie:

    then what would we do for the next year or so for pointless speculation?
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    12/30/08

    In reply to Could This Be The Face Of The Next Penguin? (And What Does Zack Snyder Want With Batman?)
    All the Batman movies seem to be written for people that watched the Adam West series and have a friend that has read at least one Batman comic book. So taking that into consideration I think the next villain should be King Tut. Steve Martin would be great.
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    12/30/08

    @reddingofish: Who's your pick for Marsha Queen of Diamonds?
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    12/30/08

    In reply to Could This Be The Face Of The Next Penguin? (And What Does Zack Snyder Want With Batman?)
    Penguin, Catwoman, and The Riddler are the three remaining big name Batman villains that don't have significantly wacky/improbable powers that wouldn't really fit with the current franchise's "dark and realistic" vibe. I'd be very surprised if at least one of them didn't show up.


    Personally, I'd love to see The Ventriloquist/Scarface as a villain in the new series, especially if they could somehow convince Anthony Hopkins to take the role, and basically play the part as a slightly older version of his character from the movie Magic.



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    12/30/08

    @bluehinter: Seconded on Ventriloquist/Scarface. The way I see it, The Nolan-verse of Batman needs more nutcases with scarily twisted gimmicks. Might end up getting a bit too Smeagol/Gollum, but Nolan's awesome with dual/mindfuck roles, as seen in Memento and The Prestige.


    Also, I'm not so sure about the bald, sort-of-disfigured look for PSH there. I kinda imagined him just being a calculating, chuckling, monocled gangster with a fetish for birds. He could be depicted with an office full of stuffed predatory birds.

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    12/30/08

    @TheFinalCylon: I agree. I think the modern incarnation of Cobblepot works best. He's a bloated double-dealing "reformed" mobster with an aviary fetish, operating his high-society club just-barely inside the law, but with plenty of ties to the criminal underworld.


    If they include him in the new film, I hope it's as "Somebody Batman knows he can beat up to get information," rather than as a major villain.

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    12/30/08

    In reply to Could This Be The Face Of The Next Penguin? (And What Does Zack Snyder Want With Batman?)
    It's going to get harder and harder to add villains without allowing them to get cartoony. It's going to take a certain amount of re-imagining. They've done very well so far, we'll just have to keep our fingers crossed.
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    12/30/08

    In reply to Could This Be The Face Of The Next Penguin? (And What Does Zack Snyder Want With Batman?)
    If we get Penguin and Catwoman, can we have Christopher Walken back too?


    I don't require him to play any specific villain, just regular Christopher Walken would be fine.

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    12/30/08

    @bluehinter: That's dangerously close to my "The Pitch is The Script" movie series. To wit: "Christopher Walken Works the Graveyard Shift at a Quick Shop" and "Sixty Guys Try to Mug Jackie Chan Inside a Home Depot"
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    @bluehinter: Will he put googly eyes on plants?
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    12/30/08

    @finite_elephant: Brilliant! Is this a thing? I googled it and got nothing. I want to see Sixty Guys Try To Mug Jackie Chan Inside A Home Depot.
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    12/30/08

    In reply to Could This Be The Face Of The Next Penguin? (And What Does Zack Snyder Want With Batman?)
    I'm not much of a comic book reader, but what is the background to the Penguin? I.e., why is he who he is and what is he?


    With Batman, we know. His parents were killed when he was a child and he's taken to dressing up as a bat to fight crime.


    The Joker - a psychopathic criminal genius who likes to wear clown make-up.


    What's the Penguin's story? A rich bloke with a big nose? What powers or talents does he have? I'm asking because I can't see how he would fit into Nolan's Batman universe without making him completely banal and uninteresting.

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    @TomAll1978: If you can track down this story, it's my favorite version.


    [www.accessmylibrary.com]


    It was also feature on the 20 Stories in 60 Minutes episode of This American Life.

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