“If Robin crops up in one of the new Batman films, I’ll be chaining myself up somewhere and refusing to go to work.” Christian Bale says he’d rather eat his Dark cap than work alongside a campy Robin character in Batman 3. [StarPulse Via Vulture]
“A very well known American action director heard about my love of Superman, approached my and asked me to team up with he and his producer to make a pitch for this. We’ve been talking for several weeks now and, if this is going to happen, we’ll know by Christmas. He has huge pull at WB so fingers crossed. But this is nothing more than a huge US name pulling me into his fold and making me part of a package.” – Does “Wanted” graphic novelist Mark Millar have any pull over the Superman franchise and does he want to do it without “Superman Returns” director Bryan Singer? [/Film]
“Unfortunately I am allergic to paparazzi and have found the best antidote to that sort of nonsense is staying behind the guitar and typewriter.” – Ryan Adams breaks up with Mandy Moore. We call rebound dibs. [Daily Intel]
“If Ian Holm is able and willing and in health and in disposition, I would love more than anything to use him [in ‘The Hobbit’]. … I think a lot of people don’t take into account the inevitable physical exertion that making two movies back-to-back entails.” – Peter Jackson intimates that Ian Holm is old. [MTV]