Dark Knight Rises Casting News
January 19, 2011
So its been officialy stated who the villains are for Nolan’s next Batfilm. The lovely Anne Hathaway will be playing Selina Kyle, and Tom Hardy (who had been cast a while back but it was never stated who he was playing) will portray Bane. For those of you who haven’t followed along Selina Kyle is usually the thieving Catwoman, a villain with a history of incredible sexual tension with the Bat. Bane is of course one of the more infamous villains of the 90s, a muscle-bound brute whose attributes are enhanced thanks to the drug Venom he pumps himself with. He is probably best known for breaking Batman’s back in the story Knightfall that lead to Bruce Wayne stepping back and letting future character Azrael take the cape and cowl for a while. He’s a potentially challenging villain for Batman as he can not only overpower him physically, he is Batman’s intellectual equal. So this should be interesting. I don’t believe its stated that this version of Selina is necesarily Catwoman, however the connection remains, and the opportunity to see Hathaway leap around in skin tight leather outfits…um, I’ll be in bunk.
