The Caped Crusader

There is a new report out in The Telegraph reporting that Cher is in talks to be the next Catwoman in the third installment of Christopher Nolan's Batman movies, which they also claim is provisionally titled "The Caped Crusader".

"Cher is Nolan's first choice to play Catwoman. He wants to her to portray her like a vamp in her twilight years.

"The new Catwoman will be the absolute opposite of Michelle Pfeiffer and Halle Berry's purring creations."

It also reasserts the claim the Johnny Depp is in talks to play the Riddler, which has been talked about for a while and I think would be pretty awesome. But Cher as Catwoman? I'm not really sure what I think about that. Maybe under his direction she could be great, but she's had a lot of plastic surgery and is getting pretty old - you just know she'd pee a little if she got socked in the gut while filming a fight scene. Another report from yesterday claims though that Nolan is on vacation and hasn't even decided whether or not to do a third film, so the validity of the Cher thing is definitely in question

"There are a lot of us who emotionally would love to do it," Roven says. "But it's really Chris' call. Chris is the kind of filmmaker who just doesn't think about the next movie before he has completely finished the movie he is working on."

For now, Nolan is taking a well-earned vacation.

Says Roven, "When he comes back, we will see how he feels."

In either case, I think she'd be a shoe-in for Gandalf in the new Hobbitt if Ian McKellen kicks the bucket before then.