Apr 27 2009
News, Some of Which is True
Your daily dose of bat-news is as follows:
Besides the usual rumors that claim Johnny Depp will play the Riddler in Batman: 20 Questions, some sources also report Michael Caine spilling the beans on Eddie Murphy’s eligibility for the role . If you want to hear something even crazier, Rachel Weisz is Catwoman and Shia LaBeouf is Robin .
I’m calling bullshit. A thousand times I’m calling bullshit.
Newsarama also has a great article up about Becoming Batman: The Possibility of a Superhero, a recent book by neuroscience professor E. Paul Zehr (yes, that E. Paul Zehr) that rationally examines whether or not there could be a Batman if one had the necessary history, physical proportions, and mental disorders. Zehr’s prognosis is ultimately no, there can’t be a Holy Father of Crimefighting due to the statistical impossibility of someone having the right genetics and all the time in the world.
He’s wrong, of course, but I won’t go there today. For Mr. Zehr’s sake, however, he might want to avoid walking down any dark alleys at night in Mesa, Arizona.
And to top it all off, WWBD turns 200 tomorrow. Two hundred posts, that is. You don’t have to get me anything, but, you know, it would be nice.
I would take Rachel Weisz as Cat Woman, she’s a great actress and would do the role proud.