Eager to catch up with Marvel in the summer blockbuster dept., Warner Brothers and DC plan to screentest a bevy of young stars for Christopher (Memento) Nolan’s new Batman film. (Of these choices, I’d go with Christian Bale.) Also is comic casting news, it turns out cut-rate chanteuse/Newlywed Jessica Simpson will be playing the lead in Mort the Dead Teenager. Normally, this’d be a non-story, but she had been rumored to play Sue Storm (Invisible Girl) in the upcoming Fantastic Four flick, which — if true — would have instantly erased any interest I might have in the project. Now, Naomi Watts, on the other hand…
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I think Cillian Murphy would be an intriguingly creepy choice for the B-man.
I haven’t seen Intermission, for which Cillian Murphy is getting good press, but still, I’m not sure I see him as Batman. Too thin and reedy. (More to the point, I can’t envision him as Bruce Wayne.) He’d make a good Joker or Scarecrow, though.