ROTTEN TOMATOES: "The Dark Knight" to Visit Baltimore?

"The Dark Knight" to Visit Baltimore?

by Scott Weinberg | January 11, 2007

Between two excellent performances in two of the year's more entertaining movies ("The Prestige" and "Children of Men"), Michael Caine has had a pretty good year -- but he's got a pair of pretty promising projects underway: A remake of "Sleuth" with Jude Law and a little sequel called "The Dark Knight."

According to an interview between Mr. Caine and Army Archerd, "The Dark Knight" will be shooting in London, Los Angeles, Hong Kong and ... Baltimore, Maryland!

Regarding that remake of "Sleuth" (which Caine insists is not a true remake), Caine will co-star with Jude Law. Kenneth Branagh is directing from an adapted screenplay by Harold Pinter.

But back to the "Batman Begins" sequel again: Caine claims to have read the screenplay -- but he was only allowed to do so with director Christopher Nolan hanging in the background. (Obviously the production team wants to keep the spoiler material under close guard.) That's pretty much all we have for this update, but you can rest assured that we'll be covering the heck out of "The Dark Knight" for the next several months.

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mojodaddy writes:
on Jan 11 2007 05:44 AM

2008 is a long ways away.....

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arpeggio191 writes:
on Jan 11 2007 06:42 AM

two things...

is it 2008 yet? why oh why do we have to wait this long!?!

and tell us who's playing harvey dent already!

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selke99 writes:
on Jan 11 2007 07:02 AM

[b]Can't wait![/b]
Should be awesome. Batman Begins is the best movie I've seen to date.

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Beastmaster77 writes:
on Jan 11 2007 07:07 AM

Batman Begins has to be one of the best "comic book movies" I've ever seen. I can't wait to see the Dark Knight. They've got an amazing director in Nolan, and one of the best actors in Christian Bale. They just need to get rid of Katie Holmes, and it would be perfect!

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Vitamin M writes:
on Jan 11 2007 07:36 AM

Yes the Dark Knight=best comic book film ever. I can't wait for the sequel. Also don't worry, I think Katie Holmes is taken care of...I don't think Tom let's her out of the house anymore.

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Baccus83 writes:
on Jan 11 2007 07:40 AM

What, they're not coming back to Chicago? Well that's pretty crappy. The Board of Trade IS Wayne Enterprises. Come on!

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Nived writes:
on Jan 11 2007 08:40 AM

Sweet! A Batman movie is getting made in my hometown. Very interesting.

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Kid_Ikarus writes:
on Jan 11 2007 11:23 AM

Michael Caine made a GREAT Alfred, tho i do miss Michael Gough... kind of a gothy Alfred.

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renodc writes:
on Jan 11 2007 11:50 AM

[b]Rumor[/b]
Darkhorizons posted a rumor that Jamie Fox is being considered for Dent.

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Bear45 writes:
on Jan 11 2007 11:58 AM

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Foxx is going to flex his Oscar muscle as he shocks the nation playing a white man. That guy really can do it all.

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Insert_witty_name writes:
on Jan 11 2007 12:03 PM

[b]Wow[/b]
This is the best thing to happen in Baltimore since.....um......this is the best thing to happen in Baltimore!

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arpeggio191 writes:
on Jan 11 2007 12:11 PM

In reply to this comment (#852793)
that's the worst most unrealistic rumor ever.

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lrm8 writes:
on Jan 11 2007 12:32 PM

jamie foxx? that would be real weird, and not because he's black, i think terrence howard would be great at two face...

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Ultimale069 writes:
on Jan 11 2007 01:30 PM

Actually I can kinda see Jamie Foxx doing two face, i think the scarred up half of his face would go well with his good looking regular side. And if he has the acting chops to go along with the two totally different personalities that is two face, one the charming, handsome, cocky lawyer, the other a raging, cold, moralely dichotomous gangster, do it up.

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Matanuki writes:
on Jan 11 2007 03:26 PM

I have to side with lrm8 on this one. Jamie Foxx is great, but if they're going black with Dent -like they did in the original Batman film- then my pick is definitely Terrence Howard. In fact, why not? Look what they did with Ra's, after all. That turned out pretty damn good. Of all the comic book franchises, shaking up the races has thus far worked best with the Batman mythology. My guess is that since the mythology has a history of focusing on deep character, race winds up being pretty much irrelevant.

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Daffy Duck writes:
on Jan 11 2007 04:13 PM

Baltimore doesn't really have a lot of high skyscrapers and such. Batman would seem really out of place in B-more.

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Aampology21 writes:
on Jan 11 2007 08:54 PM

well while terrance howard is a great choice, has everyone forgotten about the man who played spawn, micheal jai white, he's got the size and the acting depth to play harvey dent and he would over shadow the rest of the cast.

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Matanuki writes:
on Jan 12 2007 06:39 AM

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[b]WTF?!?![/b]
Huh? Since when is Harvey Dent a martial arts muscle man? I've got nothing against Michael Jai White. In fact, he's one of the only things I liked about the poor film rendition of Spawn, but casting him as Dent (?). No way, Jose. I don't think Nolan is on the course for making the same collossal mistake they made with the Victor Freeze casting choice from Batman & Robin.

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lrm8 writes:
on Jan 12 2007 08:24 AM

haha yes, everybody forgot about micheal jai white. ive never seen him in anything other than spawn, except for some bad underground action movie for which i saw a commercial for last night while watching espn. i forget what it was called, something like underfist II or something.

anyways relating to dent, there are a billion actors out there who have what it takes to play dent. black, white, whatever way you cast it he's such a great character that all you need is acting skills, and the looks can be taken care of later. One guy even suggested that the Rock play two face, and he was taken seriously... i cant wait to find out who they pick...

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alohajoe1007 writes:
on Jan 12 2007 08:44 AM

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[b]Wire vs. Batman[/b]
Wanna bet they are using Baltimore for the seedy areas used in the Wire series?

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