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News Variety Reports Robert Pattinson is the new Batman

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So the stepdaughter of Aquaman, the biological daughter of Cinna from The Hunger Games, and... Hmm. Lisa Bonet hardly has any genre credits, aside from a TV movie of The Lathe of Heaven and a recurring role in the US adaptation of Life on Mars. These days it's kind of surprising for a well-known actor not to have some SF/fantasy/superhero credit. somewhere.

"Angel Heart" is not genre?
 
"Angel Heart" is not genre?

I guess, somewhat. I thought it was just some kind of erotic thriller or something, and Wikipedia calls it psychological horror, but the plot description suggests it does have some vaguely supernatural Satanic elements. Still, not the kind of popular or franchise SF/fantasy I was thinking of, the sort of thing where you could define a performer by an iconic role like with Momoa/Aquaman.
 
Meanwhile, IMDb's predictive text algorithm is broken. Up until the last letter of typing Lisa Bonet's name, the top name it offered as a prediction was Lisa Bonet. But as soon as I typed the "T," Bonet's name disappeared and was replaced by... Jet Li. HUH????? And it's not just this time. It always does that -- as soon as you complete the full name, it disappears from the predictive list and gets replaced by something almost entirely different.
I got to admit, I don't think I've ever typed in anyone's full name in an IMDB search. I suspect most people don't, which might be why the predicter is so wonky when a full name goes in, they remove the actual name thinking that if that were the person you were search for you'd have clicked the name long before now.
 
So the stepdaughter of Aquaman, the biological daughter of Cinna from The Hunger Games, and... Hmm. Lisa Bonet hardly has any genre credits, aside from a TV movie of The Lathe of Heaven and a recurring role in the US adaptation of Life on Mars. These days it's kind of surprising for a well-known actor not to have some SF/fantasy/superhero credit. somewhere.

Another connection: Zoë at one time was romantically involved with Ezra Miller.
 
I got to admit, I don't think I've ever typed in anyone's full name in an IMDB search. I suspect most people don't, which might be why the predicter is so wonky when a full name goes in, they remove the actual name thinking that if that were the person you were search for you'd have clicked the name long before now.

Which doesn't do any good for those of us who type fast enough that we're done before we think to stop. Especially when it's a short name like this one.

And really, how stupid must an algorithm be to think that "Lisa Bonet" is a misspelling of "Jet Li"? Or rather, how stupid does it think we must be? You'd think at least the first suggestion would be something like "Lisa Bonetti" or "Melissa Benoist" or even "Liza Minelli" before getting far enough down the list of possibilities to hit "Jet Li."
 
Which doesn't do any good for those of us who type fast enough that we're done before we think to stop. Especially when it's a short name like this one.
I type pretty fast, but when I'm on IMDB or Google or whatever, I only bother entering three letters or so and usually whatever I'm looking for is listed among the options.
 
Which doesn't do any good for those of us who type fast enough that we're done before we think to stop. Especially when it's a short name like this one.

And really, how stupid must an algorithm be to think that "Lisa Bonet" is a misspelling of "Jet Li"? Or rather, how stupid does it think we must be? You'd think at least the first suggestion would be something like "Lisa Bonetti" or "Melissa Benoist" or even "Liza Minelli" before getting far enough down the list of possibilities to hit "Jet Li."
Maybe for it's organized by popularity rather than how they close they are to the name?
 
So apparently Jonah Hill has dropped out but if this casting works out, I doubt if anyone will complain: https://variety.com/2019/film/news/...o-join-cast-in-latest-installment-1203374212/


Paul Dano has been cast as the Riddler

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/a...-as-riddler-1248494?__twitter_impression=true

He will start off as Edward Nashton who changes his name to Edward Nigma who then becomes the Riddler


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Excellent casting. So far, they're three for three in the casting department. Along with Matt Reeves directing, I'm actually getting pretty excited about this film.
 
Too many villains. Movie not looking good at all right now...
I think that depends on why there are so many villains. I know a lot of the movies with multiple villains haven't always worked out, but I don't think any of that was solely due to there being multiple villains.
 
Too many villains. Movie not looking good at all right now...

How do you know how Matt Reeves will divide up the time for Catwoman scenes and Riddler scenes?

We've had tons of Batman movies that have had multiple villains and enough screen time for everyone

Penguin and Catwoman

Joker, Harvey dent in the beginning and then later as Two-Face

Bane, Catwoman, Talia, Dagget


There's a lot they can squeeze into 2 hour and 15 minute movie(if the movie is that long
 
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