Time to help me out comic book fans, just who is Professor Hugo Strange? I ask because that’s who Batman News (via SlashFilm) is saying Tom Hardy (Inception, Bronson) is rumored to play in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises.
Here’s the snippet from the site:
My source strongly believes that Hardy is going to be playing Hugo Strange. This is the first bit of information from this person that I’m publishing, however they have been accurate in the past. For example, this person told me weeks before the recent Christoper Nolan interview that The Riddler would not be appearing in the film. They also mentioned that Rachel Weisz and Anne Hathaway were in the running for the lead female role a couple of weeks before Deadline posted their list.
I did do a quick peek at Wikipedia to learn about the character and it says he “first appears [in the comics] as a scientist who uses a stolen “concentrated lightning” machine that he uses to generate a dense fog, allowing him to rob banks unseen.” The rest of the description sounds a little more “comic book-y” than Nolan’s Batman films have gone in the past, but this first part doesn’t sound too bad.
Any thoughts?
The Dark Knight Rises is set for a July 20, 2012 release.
