March 10, 2004
Batman Begins Starts Shooting
[Movie News]
DarkHorizons posted casting details on the new Batman Begins (2005) movie (previously known as "Batman: Intimidation Game") which started shooting last week in Iceland and will soon move to the UK. The current lineup looks something like this:
Christopher Nolan - Director / Writer
David S. Goyer - Writer
Christian Bale - Batman
Michael Caine - Alfred
Morgan Freeman - Lucius Fox (an executive at Waynecorp)
Katie Holmes - Rachel (Harvey Dent's assistant)
Cillian Murphy - Dr Jonathan Crane (Scarecrow)
Liam Neeson - Henri Ducard (a French investigator)
Ken Watanabe - Ra's Al Ghul (the main villain)
Gary Oldman - Lt. James Gordon
Readers in Iceland can find a map of the shooting locations at Latino Review. The new movie has a $150 million budget and has a story that ignores the previous Batman movies starting the franchise 'fresh'. Many more details on the new movie can be found at the Dark Horizons story details and other Dark Horizons pages.
Posted by Leopoldo at March 10, 2004 09:16 AM | TrackBackWhat, another skinny punk as batman?? We need someone to fill-out the suit like the comics. Reign of Fire sucked and this looks as bad as when Clooney tried.
Posted by: bill on April 22, 2004 04:54 PMClooney made the best Batman... would you like to try out for the part? No. Shh.
Posted by: Sarah on August 5, 2004 06:15 AMWhat, another skinny punk as batman?? We need someone to fill-out the suit like the comics. Reign of Fire sucked and this looks as bad as when Clooney tried.
Posted by: sangeeth on August 7, 2004 09:22 AMI have hopes for this new batman movie, the cast is great, and if this one starts from zero, we can expect better films that in the past.
Posted by: Just me on August 18, 2004 09:47 AMI think Bale is awesome. You need to see American Psycho and Equilibrium. He is a brilliant actor as well in the Machinist. I personally didnt like Clooney as Batman. My favorite Batman is Keaton. Kilmer did okay. This new Batman looks awesome.
I am very excited.
Posted by: Rocio on December 22, 2004 01:56 AMThe best batman to date is Keaton no one can replace him and tim burton did awesome directing the two with Keaton no one can do better but i love batman as a character so i have high hopes for this movie
Posted by: ryan bailey on February 20, 2005 10:59 AMI am absolutly in love with Batman. Clooney did his best I will give him that, but I dont think anyone has portrayed Batman to the full extent. Im excited for this movie, and I only hope that I love it.
Posted by: Renee on March 13, 2005 10:52 PMthe first two batman movies were the best because they were dark, how batman should be. the third was ok, kilmer did a good job. but the forth one with clooney sucked. it was too corny and arnie snouldnt have been in it either. this new one looks pretty good though, i think they should completely bring back the old darkness of the first two to bring the batman movies back.
Posted by: Abi on March 21, 2005 09:10 AMI hope this Batman movie is good, just like the rest. Keaton was my favorite Batman he played Batman great, Kilmer was good to as well as Clooney, but Keaton was the best. This movie looks great can't wait to see it.
Posted by: Jacob on May 28, 2005 09:03 PM
