oseph Gordon Levitt was Christopher Nolan’s good guy in ‘Inception’ — now, he might be turning bad.
The ‘500 Days of Summer’ star is in talks to play an unnamed villain in the upcoming Batman sequel, ‘The Dark Knight Rises,’ Deadline.com reports.J
Now, here’s the thing. I almost didn’t post this because I thought , you know, it’s the One Rumor That Refuses To Die. There is still some speculation on Hugo Strange…but Levitt does not have the Hugo look. I suppose he could, and I suppose it’s possible that he could pull it off. But many would rather see him as that one character who Nolan says WON’T be in the film- and that’s The Riddler.
Because of that, I *almost* didn’t post this. I was on the fence, saying to myself ‘I heard this rumor before—it’s old stuff’ But there IS the chance that Levitt was considered for a role other than what a fanbase might expect him to play. Indeed- there was a lot of speculation on who his Inception co-star Tom Hardy would play before the Bane announcement. So there *is* another villain involved.
The question (don’t read into that) for me is that is he playing a “major” foe or a cameo (much like Cillian Murphy’s return as Scarecrow in the previous film, or Zsasz in Batman Begins) or is there a mobster type? So far the arrow points to Strange, but it could be Hush for all I know.
I would ask what you think, but I suspect 99% of the int’l friends to say Riddle Me This…
So Riddle Me That—if Levitt isn’t Riddler, would he make a good Strange? Or who *could* he be?
