Actor Michael Caine says he fully expects he’ll reprise his role as Alfred in the current Batman films. However, the actor cautioned that fans will see Alfred and the rest of the Batman crew on the big-screen later rather than sooner.
” I imagine another Batman is quite a long way away,” he told SciFi Wire, citing director Christopher Nolan’s comitment to Warner Brothers to write and direct, “Inception” with Leondardo DiCaprio.
Caine said Nolan taking a break between Batman films isn’t new. Nolan directed “The Prestige” between the shoots for “Batman Begins” and “Dark Knight.”
Caine went on to speculate that the oft-rumored Riddler would be the villain for the third installment. And while he wouldn’t say who would play the role, he admits they have big shoes to fill following the Oscar-winning performance by Heath Ledger as the Joker.
Caine said he was honored to work with Ledger and proud that the actor got the Oscar for his work on “Dark Knight.”
” I was a big fan of his from the first time I met him. I had never met him before, and I met him on the set where he invades our party we’re having, and I’m standing by the lift,” he said. “I expect to greet people, and then all his gang’s behind him. He came in, but before that, I’d met, obviously, on the set, and we were chatting. He had this makeup on, and I was saying how fantastic I thought it was. We were just chatting quietly, and then they said, “We’re ready to shoot.” I had never seen the performance. We were just talking. Then he came out of the elevator, and I was absolutely stunned by that, the way he did it, and the energy that went into it. Then when I saw the movie, there’s an opening monologue and a closing monologue that he does. I thought if anybody’s going to better that and get an Academy Award above him, I will pay good money to see that. And nobody did beat him. I’m so pleased.”
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