Michael Caine recently talked about his role as Alfred Pennyworth and he speculates on what he might do in the upcoming movie.
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.”
I think this is very interesting. Michael Caine takes a humourous take on the idea, and pokes some fun. But really I can see it. Not that I crave to see Caine in a rubber suit, but it makes sense for the movie to pay tribute to the comic book. This has happened in the pages of the comic more than once. In a number of instances Pennyworth put on the cape and cowl to play the Dark Knight in the book. It doesnt seem a stretch at all.
Wether they do this or not, even Caine admits is purely speculation, but I wont be surprised at all if something like this happens.
