Johnny Depp is Riddler, Philip Seymour Hoffman is Penguin

“They’ve already got them in mind,” said Caine, when asked who he’d like to see take up arms against the Caped Crusader. “It’s Johnny Depp as The Riddler. And The Penguin is Philip Seymour Hoffman. I read it in the paper.”

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Ok, so Digg.com is amazing. However, you have to wonder about the validity of this article, I mean, it did come from MTV News. But still, I am a bit torn on this one. True I do love Johnny Depp, and he always manages to amaze, but doing the Riddler right after the Joker, really they are very similar characters. I don't know if they could pull it off. And I am not a huge fan of Philip Sermour Hoffman, so seeing him as one of my favorite batman villians, is a bit disappointing. And if its anything like "The Dark Knight" they will end up spending the entire movie on one story arch and then just throwing in the story of the other villian at the end. Really, I think that The Dark Knight might have turned out better if they had left the story of Two Face for the next movie. It was just too much. And the same might happen to the riddler or the penguin. And I really hope that it doesn't happen to either of them.
And you have to take into consideration who they are talking about. I doubt Hoffman will have any scheduling conflicts. But Johnny Depp is finally being recognized as an amazing actor (much to my relief) and he is slated to be in several movies in the upcoming few years. Between The Run Diaries, Shantaram, Dark Shadows and who knows what else, will he really agree to be in the next Batman? Its a tough question, part of me hopes he does and the other doesn't just for the sake of the quality of the film...

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