Posts Tagged ‘Batman’

Robin the Boy Wonder to be killed? Plus, another new poster for ‘Iron Man 3′

- February 25th, 2013

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Two big pieces of news for comic book fans today.

It appears DC plans to kill Batman’s sidekick, Robin the Boy Wonder, in an upcoming issue of Batman Incorporated.

The news was reported exclusively on the NY Post.

In this incarnation of the comic, which is written by Grant Morrison (The Invisibles), Batman’s 10-year-old son Damian Wayne portrays wisecracking Robin.

In the upcoming book (out Wednesday, Feb. 27), he saves the world. “He does his job as Robin,” Morrison tells the Post. “He dies an absolute hero.”

This isn’t the first time DC has killed Batman’s sidekick. In 1988, Jason Todd was offed in Jim Starlin’s Batman: A Death in the Family.

He was resurrected as the Red Hood, so perhaps Damian Wayne, who was trained by the League of Assassins, will return as well.

If you’re more of a Marvel fan, you’ll be pretty stoked with today’s tweet.

After a slew of Iron Man 3 posters featuring the big guy, War Machine, Aldrich Killian and The Mandarin, the company released a poster of a sad looking Pepper Potts.

Played by Gwyneth Paltrow, the character has been a comic foil for Robert Downey Jr’s Tony Stark in the previous two instalments. But this latest image shows her despondent as she holds a broken Iron Man helmet.

So far, I’m really loving these character posters.

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt set to play Batman in ‘Justice League’?

- November 27th, 2012
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt in a scene from The Dark Knight Rises.

 

Earlier this week, Man of Steel director Zack Synder hinted that next summer’s Superman reboot could tie in to a larger DC Comics ensemble film that will gather several heroes from the Justice League.

Now Drew McWeeny from HitFix is adding fuel to the fire with speculation that Joseph Gordon-Levitt could appear as Batman in Justice League, which is tentatively due in 2015.

Gordon-Levitt played police officer Robert Blake in final instalment of Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy, The Dark Knight Rises, last summer.

McWeeny quotes sources who say Gordon-Levitt “absolutely” will be appearing in Justice League as the new Batman. He even suggests the caped crusader might have a cameo in a post-credits sequence in Man of Steel. “They appear to be solidifying deals for Gordon-Levitt and, potentially, at least one other actor from the Nolan films to do… something,” he writes.

Without ruining anything, the ending of The Dark Knight Rises opened up the possibility of Gordon-Levitt’s character filling Bruce Wayne’s bat-suit in future films.

When Synder was asked by the New York Post whether Man of Steel will be the launchpad for a more ambitious superhero film set in the DC Comics’ universe, he replied: “Um, how can I answer that? I can’t really say anything to that, because that’s a big spoiler. I will say, yeah, they trust me to keep them on course.”

Sounds pretty cool, I’d say. What do you think about Gordon-Levitt playing Batman in Justice League? Is this a good direction for the series to go? Let us know in the comments.

Man of Steel will be in theatres June 14, 2013. The Dark Knight Rises will be released on DVD and Blu-Ray on December 4.

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Watch the new ‘Dark Knight Rises’ featurette

- July 9th, 2012

We’re 11 days away from The Dark Knight Rises – the third and final instalment in Christopher Nolan’s Batman series – and Warner Bros. has ramped up the hype for the new film by releasing a 13-minute featurette.

It’s short on spoilers – I’m still wondering if Cillian Murphy will reprise his role as Scarecrow – but we do get a sense of what Nolan and star Christian Bale want to accomplish with the film and the relatively unknown villain, Bane.

“Some people want to watch the world burn,” actor Tom Hardy says of the character. “Well Bane is here to pull the pin on the grenade.”

“I wanted to see Batman meet his match,” Nolan says of his unconventional pick. A lot of people, myself included, were expecting Leo DiCaprio as The Riddler.

We also get insight into Catwoman (Anne Hathaway), Miranda Tate (Marion Cotillard) and Batman’s allies: John Blake, the idealistic cop played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Lucius Fox (Morgan Freeman), Alfred Pennyworth (Michael Caine) and Jim Gordon (Gary Oldman).

And if the inspiration for The Dark Knight was Michael Mann’s 1995 crime drama Heat, Nolan’s muse this time round is films from the silent era.

“We really looked back to the silent era of motion pictures,” he says. “When the image was paramount.”

Stunt co-ordinator Tom Struthers also gives viewers a behind-the-scenes peek at a plane-hijacking sequence involving Bane.

Watch The Dark Knight Rises featurette and let us know what you think in the comments.

The film hits theatres on July 20.

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