“I grew up a comic book fan, so I love that stuff. I love going to that stuff. I think what they’re doing with that whole Batman story is really true to what that whole Batman thing has always been. It’s one of the darkest origins of a superhero, to get all nerdy and geeky on you. That character sees his parents gunned down as a young child: I remember when I was a kid reading that story, so seeing it now come to life as the dark tale that it really is as an intense, really dark, very visceral, adult tale that they’re doing now, all the great work people are doing on it, of course I wouldn’t say, ‘Well, no, no no.’ But I don’t know the reality of it, so I wouldn’t say ‘yes’ to you.”
That’s what Philip Seymour Hoffman says about his rumored participation about the next Batman movie. Earlier this week, Michael Caine, who played the role of Alfred, Batman’s butler, revealed that a Warner Bros. executive had told him about Johnny Depp and Philip Seymour Hoffman being cast as the next Batman villains - respectively as Riddler and the Penguin.
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