Director Christopher Nolan addressed the validity of those rumors and what we can expect from TDK on the whole at an informal Internet website press event for his latest film--The Prestige (which looks great by the way).
From IESB/The Movie Reporter:
In the midst of all the Prestige talk, we were able to get him to talk a bit about the highly anticipated Batman sequel.
Q: Looking at Batman Begins now, were you surprised or was that the reaction you were expecting to get?
CN: I was very surprised for the simple reason that I felt that we really put our hearts into making a great film and I felt that on our own terms we had succeeded but I never never really expected to satisfy critics and fans, you know Batman fans, and regular audiences equally. I mean I thought maybe we'd get two points of the triangle but the fact that all three groups seem to respond well, that was a big surprise. It felt like you were going to lose one aspect of that somewhere along the line. But, I don't know, we were very fortunate in that regard.
Q: Because the formula works so well is that something that you were looking to do for The Dark Knight?
CN: I think, what people responded to most about Batman Begins is how different it was from their expectations. So I think we would be foolish to not recognize that and attempt to do something very different in the sequel. I certainly wouldn't have, you know, any interest in somewhat trying to repeat the experience that the film already made because I think, particularly being an origin story, it's a very unique thing very singular. My interest in the sequel is to move on from there and do something quite different.
Q: Since you did the origin story, it frees you up from doing the whole introduction, so are you expecting to do a whole lot more action the second time around?
CN: Um, I mean we certainly put a lot of action into Batman Begins through the film even though it didn't involve Batman until 50 minutes in or whatever. So certainly we are free to put Batman into action earlier on. But if you look at the, I mean the rhythm of action movies is very complicated because there is a limit actually to how much action is in the film, how you have to have a particular ebb and flow to what actually works and Batman Begins is pretty stuffed to be honest. But, it didn't all get to involve that character, Bruce Wayne was Batman because of the origin and that we don't have to do.
Q: Any truth to the rumors of Ryan Phillippe or Phillip Seymore Hoffman?
CN: (Laughing) As the penguin, no, not true.
Q: Sean Penn?
CN: No truth, no truth to any of those rumors. All interesting ideas though...
So there you have it folks, straight from the horses mouth...
The Dark Knight is set for release in June 2008.
I'd still like to see Ryan Phillippe take a crack at the Harvey Dent role...
Meanwhile, The Prestige, starring a cast that includes Hugh Jackman, Batman himself Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Scarlett Johansson, Rebecca Hall, Andy Serkis (who played Gollum in The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy, Piper Perabo and David Bowie, opens on Oct. 20th.
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