Bat News Just In!

I know it's been a while since I last bought you movie fans any news but I make my apologies on that front as I have been terribly suffering with severely burnt hands.

Anyhew...I have very exciting Batman:The Dark Knight Rises news...on the 20th May Empire Magazine had the very good fortune of releasing the news that there is now an official website up for the film that may just have chanting on it but very clever Bat fans have already managed to decifer these into audible words, these words being:

"The Fire Rises"

If any of you guys want to visit this website here is the link:

http://www.thedarkknightrises.com/

This has resulted in Twitter fans mentioning this over and over again giving them a preview of Tom Hardy as Baine...as Tropic Thunder might say he looks 'Tighter than a Julien Salad'.

However, I have just seen on Variety Magazine online that there is further additions to the ever growing cast. This time though Matthew Modine, Tom Conti and Joey King will be joining.

• Matthew Modine you'll recognise from Transporter 2 as he played the President who falls ill from a 24 hr virus
• Tom Conti was most memorably (for me anyway) as Emily's drunk father in Friends.
• Joey King who is in Ramona and Beezus (another upcoming film).

Variety has said that despite the early on rumours that 'The Joker' would definatly not be in this new Batman film Modine will play a 'sort of Joker character'. This new character he will play is 'Nixon'. The other roles that these new cast members will play is already kept very much under lock and key by Christopher Nolan, but I have to say that I like this air of mystery it is very Batman like.

But the cast that is already confirmed are: Tom Hardy, Christian Bale, Anne Hathaway, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, Joseph Gordan-Levitt, Gary Oldman, Marion Coutillard, Josh Pence and Nestor Carbonelli.

I can hardly contain how excited I am about how this film will be out on July 20th next year. The film will also see scenes from Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, New York, Scotland (Your eyes are not decieving you it is Scotland), England and India.