Michael Caine as Batman?

By Darren Bermingham: 2006-10-17 00:00:00

Over at SciFi.com Michael Caine offers a unique insight into his degree of "creative input" in Christopher Nolan's Upcoming The Dark Knight. Let's just say it involves Caine himself and skintight rubber. Curious? You shouldn't be. Unless you erm... like that sort of thing.

SciFi quotes Caine in their interview as saying: "I was talking to the widow of the man who wrote Batman, and she said that he wrote a marvelous scene that [we] should do in [our] next movie ... She told me that he wrote a sequence where Batman was trying to get bad guys, and he wanted to use the butler dressed as Batman as a ruse, and then go back around behind him. So I said to Christopher, and I don't know whether he's going to use it, because he won't tell you anything about the script, but I mentioned this to him, because I thought that this was a great idea. I think that if he dresses me as Batman, it could be one of the funniest sequences in the history of movies ... Can you imagine what I would make out of that? Trying to get into the Batman suit and then running around the woods [while] he's going around the [other] way to try and get the bad guys? See, you're already laughing, and those films are very serious. My job is to bring the humor of the sort of ordinary person being in that situation, which is what I am."

One thing's right, that would be damn funny if it ever came to pass. But could such a coup de funny hold it's own in the doom and gloom of the Dark Knight? It's a nice thought. In so far as the project's status Caine says that, other than being on board, he's still very much in the dark. No pun intended:

"I'm just waiting to get the script ... Every time I ask him for it he says, 'I haven't finished it.' I know he's finished it, otherwise [Warner Brothers] wouldn't have given it the go-ahead."

Someone needs a whiney time-out. Don't worry Michael, I'm sure it'll be great. Possibly not "you getting to run around pretending to be Batman great" but it'll be okay.

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