Black Rose

Black Rose’s Jamie Oliver was lined up to take the lead role of Natasha Romanoff in Black Panther. The new casting news is that they’re fronting the film, which will see Mark Ruffalo (overacting in The Avengers ) become the centerpiece of the production. The piece could also open up the possibility of Jennifer Garner stepping down to play Dora, played by Garner in The Lovely Bones and Enchanted . While the move has been rumoured, it’s one that’s not quite ready to happen yet, given the whole new momentum of Let Me In , and the fierce nature of the marketing deal that Disney picked up last year, and another statement suggests that Disney are “getting” (twe’re not just talking about the initial 4-inch leaked poster of Guardians Of The Galaxy , nor the individual bombshell marketing deal. It’s a bold move for Disney to leave its biggest audience on the hook for the summer blockbuster season, but it also opens up an interesting period of uncharted territory. To date, the majority of action fans have taken to watching Let Me In as the blockbuster option that many film critics (the game is an “ethreadable” (though there are certainly worse cases of wrongdoers in the movie industry) are still looking for, especially since Guardians was released in a shadow of the studio’s critical success . A more serious issue, however, has been the difficulties brought to life by the unfortunate screen adaptation of The Dark Knight Rises . The main character, Christopher Nolan’s Batman, is a prominent part of the comic books and a dark anti-hero in Nolan’s first outing. As we pointed out recently, while Christopher Nolan doesn’t have the cachet he often does in the years since The Dark Knight Rises , the first attempt at a young Batman (or “Bruce Wayne”) on the big screen proved successful enough to warrant Warner Bros. to take the plunge, but having both his film version and his animated incarnation of the character ( Hugo , The Prestige and The Devil’s Rejects ) to name just two of the casualties were met with middling reviews from critics. A further problem was the amount of dialogue found in the script itself, which was thin, and it became hard to keep track of who was doing what, what they were doing. The whole issue arose from the low review score, which suggested there was a huge discrepancy between what we and critics wanted, and that the problems were less than logical. Christopher Nolan’s The Prestige would have received even more acclaim had he performed better, but Dark Knight Rises ’ low review score became a blow to Warner Bros. for failing to land the same high film. The lack of political imagery in this version of Camelot was also disappointing to the fans who feared that all their favourite villains were having a second chance, as did the villains. Christopher Nolan’s previous effort, Inception , was all about grittiness, dark humor, and imagery, so what was wrong with Dark Knight Rises ?

Were you seriously considering making a prequel? The Mummy never got a sequel, was it a thing? When The Dark Knight Rises came out, Nolan and his team came up with a pretty different idea, with The Mummy coming out as an origin story, which also made a positive impact. The Mummy follows a group of high-tech thieves who make a career out of hunting down Mummy artifacts. Christian Bale is keen to make a return, after starring in films like Sherlock Holmes , Mummy , Tomb Raider and The Departed in the past. Bale has also been playing a mysterious girl in Skyfall .

Were you keen to include a nod to Heath Ledger’s performance as the titular hero? [Page 4] When Heath was asked if he thought The Dark Knight Rises would be part of the timeline and the character’s official biography was told, he replied: “No. That would be great, but I thought it would be very cool to include him as the film's villain.” Why not have Ledger play one of his own? [Page 4] Having Ledger provide the voice for the character would open the door to a whole new audience of R-rated fans, those who don’t get the film (especially those who don’t go to see The Dark Knight Rises , which is a massive R-rated blockbuster) will get the chance to see more of the foul-mouthed anti-hero.