Saturday, May 21, 2011

Late "Knight" Additions

Matthew Modine  Tom Conti (The Tempest), and 11-year-old actress Joey King have joined the cast of Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises says Variety.



Modine will "be playing a character named 'Nixon' in the superhero sequel, though further details weren't available." Modine played Pvt Joker in Stanley Kubrick's 1987 Vietnam War film Full Metal Jacket

The Conti and King roles were unspecified

Christian Bale Anne Hathaway,Tom Hardy Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Josh Pence,Alon Aboutboul and Nestor Carbonell star along with return of the trilogy's ensemble cast such as Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman and Michael Caine

Daniel Sunjata, Diego Klattenhoff and Burn Gorman take on secondary roles

Nolan calls action on the DKR from a screenplay he wrote with bro Jonathan Nolan, from a story by Nolan and David S. Goyer

Production is underway and the sequel is set to hit theaters on July 20th, 2012

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