A source has told The Hollywood Reporter that Jessica Biel (The A-Team), Anne Hathaway (Love and Other Drugs), Keira Knightley (Never Let Me Go), Kate Mara (127 Hours) and Charlotte Riley (Easy Virtue) are set to test for Warner Bros. in the next two weeks.
The actresses are vying for two roles, a love interest and a villain, who may or may not be Talia, the daughter of villain Ra’s Al Ghul – played by Liam Neeson in Batman Begins.
The Dark Knight Rises will be directed by Nolan from a script written by David Goyer. Filming is expected to commence in May.
Warner Bros. will release the film on July 20, 2012.
Oh, please, anyone but Knightley. She’s been great in plenty of roles, but just feels *all* wrong for Nolan’s Gotham. Too brittle, too insubstantial. Happy to be proved wrong, but seems like a bad idea.
I agree. Personally, I’d like to see Jessica Biel or Gemma Arterton in the role(s). Hathaway is too light-heartedly mainstream, Mara is busy being Lisbeth, and I’ve never heard of Riley.