Ra's al Ghul was quite an important part of the Batman mythos in the early to mid 70s, as the character was being reshaped in the wake of the cancellation of the TV show.
I loved the movie as well, but was disappointed that they kind of made it impossible to build a whole third movie around Two-Face as the main villain. He's always been a favorite of mine, especially those early stories, where he would do stuff like rob a bank, then flip the coin to determine whether he should keep the profits or donate them to the orphanage--stuff like that. Too bad.
I agree that Penguin is just a little too campy for the modern day audience. Catwoman would probably bring up too many memories of the Halle Berry effort of a few years back. I am alone in thinking that Jim Carrey's Riddler from the last series of Batman films was actually kind of interesting, so I'm sure the Nolans could do something with him.
Clayface would be possible in theory, but the Nolans seem to want to do as little CGI as possible, and that villain more or less demands that treatment, so he's out. But here's two ideas that have never been done in any Batman movie: From way back in the '40s, there was Doctor Hugo Strange (not to be confused with the Marvel character with a similar name), and then again from that all-important post-TV show era, they could try to do a movie based around Man-Bat. He could maybe be brought in initially as a replacement for Lucius Fox, and then have his experiments go out of control.
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Date: 2008-07-30 04:14 am (UTC)I loved the movie as well, but was disappointed that they kind of made it impossible to build a whole third movie around Two-Face as the main villain. He's always been a favorite of mine, especially those early stories, where he would do stuff like rob a bank, then flip the coin to determine whether he should keep the profits or donate them to the orphanage--stuff like that. Too bad.
I agree that Penguin is just a little too campy for the modern day audience. Catwoman would probably bring up too many memories of the Halle Berry effort of a few years back. I am alone in thinking that Jim Carrey's Riddler from the last series of Batman films was actually kind of interesting, so I'm sure the Nolans could do something with him.
Clayface would be possible in theory, but the Nolans seem to want to do as little CGI as possible, and that villain more or less demands that treatment, so he's out. But here's two ideas that have never been done in any Batman movie: From way back in the '40s, there was Doctor Hugo Strange (not to be confused with the Marvel character with a similar name), and then again from that all-important post-TV show era, they could try to do a movie based around Man-Bat. He could maybe be brought in initially as a replacement for Lucius Fox, and then have his experiments go out of control.
Anyway--just some weird late night musings..