We here at Cinema Blend told you to wait off on buying the “Katie Holmes Is Gone” foam fingers until it was confirmed. Well it has been, and straight from the ungainly horselike mouth. The Wall Street Journal has published an interview with Katie Holmes publicist in which she desperately tries to save face. It really would be funny if it wasn’t so damn sad.
She says: "Katie was offered ["Dark Knight"] but was unable to accept the role because of scheduling conflicts. She was in the process of negotiating for another project.”
Now eager reader I hear your cries. Other project? What project was so great that Katie would dump one of the coolest, most critically and financially successful franchise to come down the pike in a long long time? Well I’ll tell you… It’s Mad Money a Queen Latifah vehicle being shot for 12 million dollars. So if we are to believe this, Katie Holmes has left one of the most successful franchises in recent years, to play second fiddle to Queen Latifah in a poverty row quickie. Yeeeeeeeeehhhh… Either she has the worst agent of all time or she’s lying through her teeth. I choose the latter.
I just rewatched the film last night strangely enough, and was reminded of just how much I love it. Christian Bale as the only Batman I’ve ever been able to believe, the silky perfection of Cillian Murphey’s Scarecrow, the dark noir visuals of Nolan’s style. Batman Begins is more or less everything I want from a mainstream Hollywood film.
In the middle of the whole splendid thing though is Holmes' mannequin like performance as a (I still can’t get over this) D.A. Rachel Dawes was great in concept shit in execution. The confirmation that the character is more important then the actress makes me excited though and perhaps brings into context Nolan’s cryptic comments of the meaning of the title The Dark Knight . Nolan says: “Things are going to get worse before they get better.” Sounds like Batman is going to lose people important to him, and because of this new actress we actually get to care. The sequel could be even better then the first one.
