Rumor Control: Megan Fox As Catwoman?

Trust Me: This Is NOT The Next Catwoman

It pains me to even have to write this, as I know it’s a load of rubbish, but: British tabloid The Sun is crowing that not only is Christopher Nolan ready to start filming his third Batman film entirely in IMAX the second he finishes up with his sci-fi thriller “Inception,” but he’s already cast Megan Fox as Catwoman in the film.

Let’s review a couple of things, shall we?

First, Chris Nolan has said, repeatedly, that he doesn’t have a script for the next Batman film. Neither does his brother, Jonathan Nolan. Nor does anyone else remotely associated with Nolan, except maybe his limo driver, who has this great idea for Batman to face off against Catwoman and the Penguin, along with a bunch of circus people and Christopher Walken… wait, that’s been done.

Next, Nolan is a notorious perfectionist. There’s no way he’s splitting his attention between getting “Inception” right, and working up another Batman film at the same time. Just not happening. Also on the same point, Nolan has already put the kibosh on working completely in IMAX format, as this SlashFilm interview snippet keenly displays:

We found ways and we planned ways of getting around for example, the short load-times which is you know, we would just swap one camera for another when it ran out of film and that kind of thing,” explained director Christopher Nolan. “Generally with action sequences which is mostly what we were shooting you really rarely roll for more than ten seconds for example so it tends not to really be a factor. Shooting a dialog scene with an IMAX camera would be a bigger challenge because of the noise of the camera and the short length of the loads and so forth but we got better and better at it, we had a terrific crew, a lot of our camera mounts and things were 35 millimeter they were ones they’re built to withstand enormous abuse, so they can take the weight of a much larger camera.

Finally, although The Sun and every fanboy drawing breath on the planet would have a conniption if Megan Fox even thought about donning a Catwoman costume (erasing once and for all any memories of Halle Berry’s turn as the whip-cracker), the odds of Nolan going in that direction are slim to none. Every one of his Batman actors has been highly acclaimed, and Fox still has a way to go before shaking the fetid air of Michael Bay off her.

So, until you see Christopher Nolan posing Megan Fox on a Batcycle seductively, and it’s NOT a Photoshop job (like the graphic above, from BadTaste), don’t believe it for a second. Quit it!