Good Kitty
Jan. 21st, 2011 09:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
k_lindenIt seems as though the report that Anne Hathaway has been tapped to play Selina Kyla (a.k.a Catwoman) in the final installment of Christopher Nolan's Batman reboot has some truth to it. I was quite excited by the speculation yesterday, but didn't want to get my hopes up until it had been confirmed. I've always had a soft spot for Hathaway, so I'm curious to see how she and Nolan will reinterpret Selina's character for a darker, grittier Gotham.
A lot of outcry came from the fact that Hathaway doesn't seem to have the same femme fatale air about her that previous actresses have brought to the role, including my perennial favorite, Michelle Pfeiffer. (In fact, I still have my kiddy-size Batman Returns-era Catwoman costume somewhere tucked away in my Halloween boxes.) But we'd all do well to remember that there was similar nay-saying going on after Heath Ledger was cast for the Joker, and I think that unique casting choice created one of the most memorable performances in the history of comic-adapted films. If I wanted to see the same old thing, I'd watch the movies and read the comics that have already been made. Let Hathaway give us something new to digest, and maybe she'll be able to take the character to a really interesting place.
Also, I should give Tom Hardy a shout-out as the new Bane. If anyone can redeem Bane for a movie audience after the abysmal shortchanging he got in Batman and Robin, it's Nolan. Really, it would be a challenge to make the character suck any more than he did in that film.
A lot of outcry came from the fact that Hathaway doesn't seem to have the same femme fatale air about her that previous actresses have brought to the role, including my perennial favorite, Michelle Pfeiffer. (In fact, I still have my kiddy-size Batman Returns-era Catwoman costume somewhere tucked away in my Halloween boxes.) But we'd all do well to remember that there was similar nay-saying going on after Heath Ledger was cast for the Joker, and I think that unique casting choice created one of the most memorable performances in the history of comic-adapted films. If I wanted to see the same old thing, I'd watch the movies and read the comics that have already been made. Let Hathaway give us something new to digest, and maybe she'll be able to take the character to a really interesting place.
Also, I should give Tom Hardy a shout-out as the new Bane. If anyone can redeem Bane for a movie audience after the abysmal shortchanging he got in Batman and Robin, it's Nolan. Really, it would be a challenge to make the character suck any more than he did in that film.
