I heard this rumor yesterday, but it was so obviously bogus that I didn’t even bother addressing it. But then every single site out there started putting up posts with titles like “CONFIRMED! DEPP AND HOFFMAN ARE RIDDLER AND PENGUIN!” and various other wordings of the same bullshit.
Basically here’s the deal. Michael Caine was giving some interview where he talked about a conversation he had with some WB exec (he never says who) and basically Caine asked “how do we top Heath”, and the WB exec says something hypothetical like “I’ll tell you how, Depp and Hoffman as Riddler and Penguin”. All of a sudden all these websites are putting out “exclusives” that it has been CONFIRMED that Depp and Hoffman were in the next Batman movie. Bullshit.
Here’s a short clip from last night’s “The Movie Blog: Uncut” where I explain why it’s Bullshit. And as Doug mentions in this short video, even Heath Ledger confirms it.
