Phillip Seymour Hoffman As Penguin

Yessir it is! Lol! He is good in some comics though... Some...

This concept is silly...Penguin is just a regular guy...short, fat, big nosed regular guy. This is the one villain who's comic iteration fits perfectly into the hyper-reality concept as is. Please, have we learned nothing from Danny DeVito?

yeah,maybe the penguin as a nightclub/fightclub owner and killer croc as a bouncer...lol.i think it would be great if they went to "the son of the demon" books for inspiration.They have already laid the ground work for it and everyone know that Ras aint dead.

I prefer Paul Giamati. But that's just me.

And why does the Penguin have to have freakish looks?

I think ridler and cat women should be in the movie. But they have to do penguin, and the muntant freak look came from batman returns. But I still love that movie.

thats creepy...

I definately agree with you guy. Cobblepot is a rich dweeb, not a bad guy from the X-Files.... Picture looks cool though, but it's not Penguin.

In the Gotham Times for The Dark Knight Web Campaign, one of the ads was for the Iceberg Lounge....with a DJ Tux...

Subtle it ain't but I didn't take this as something serious.

WINNNER!

Fake as hell. I dont want penguin in the next one anyway. They should have catwoman and riddler. Scarlett Jo Hanson as catwoman and Johnny Depp as riddler would be badass

I cant believe people actually want catwoman in the next batman...worst idea ever. Has anyone read "Joker" that was released in november by Azarello?

Killer croc and The riddler definatly stood out most to me as badguys that Nolan could put his awome twist on. Killer croc was just a steroid overloaded goon, not a main badguy, but a 20 min one like Nolan turned 2 face into.

And if you have read it, imagine Johnny Depp as that Riddler, as weird of a person and crooked as he is, that is the best actor for the part, hands down.

how about the beast from the mini series"Ten Nights Of The Beast"?He was a hired assassin from Russia?He's a believable character,and Nolan,i think,could do wonders with him.

I dont think they should do the penguin again, not in nolans world anyways. I think Devitos penguin was great! he was freakish and dark, but funny and akward.I dont think he should be an accepted member of society (like a club owner) unless it's a world where people are used to seeing freaks. like rorschach01 said, if he's not at least a bit freakish "it's not the penguin is it"?

I think if any freak could be introduced it Would be Killer Croc. cause a super strong dude with a skin condition, who files down his teeth (like in the comics), would be MESSED UP! and that'd be dope. Besides that, the riddler would be perfect for this with the way they set it up, Batmans an outlaw, I think that the riddler should have figured out at some point who batman is, and batman has to stay ahead of everyone else on the riddles to keep his identity, and get to riddler. and the riddler can use the croc to mess with batman. sorta Hush-esque.

Catwoman would be good too, cause he's more on the wrong side of the law right now, and she could exploit that. but I just feel like catwomans been done. same with that story.

Christina Ricci as Catwoman
Benicio del Toro as Penguin

At the end of TDK where are we? Gotham hates Batman, the Mafia is leaderless, Corruption is throughout the police force and even the Mayor seemed a little shady. The people of Gotham are going to look for change.

...The movie starts off on New Years Eve with someone in a police outfit walking into a hospital where Doctors and nurses are blowing horns in celebration of the holiday and it show's the tv which reflects 1 minute til new years. The police officer then walks down a hallway and into a hospital room. On the bed lies Moroni who narrowly escaped death at the hands of Two-face. Moroni opens his eyes to see a gun pointed at his head with a silencer, he utters the words "I... thought you were dead?" It doesn't show the killer, and you hear down the hall everyone shouting HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Then you hear a female voice say Happy New Year. Then the gun fires.

...The next seen is GCN news reporter Engel talking about a Holiday serial killer who has killed Detective Ramirez, the Scarecrow, mobsters and killed Moroni who was recovering at the hospital, all killings taking place on different Holiday's. Then in other news reports of a recent string of cat burglery's with the burgler handing out stolen money to the poor and homeless on gotham streets. Now to the battle for the Mayor's office. Cobblepot has a narrow lead over Roman Sionis(The Black Mask) with the current Mayor not even in the running after being accused of being involved in scandals and failure to lead Gotham in it's darkest times.
...Cobblepot is able to feed on the public's craving for change and as someone who will step into to Harvey Dent's shoe's. He runs on the platform of hunting down the bat and trying to find out who the bat is and bring him to justice. He'll secretly employ the Riddler to find out and reveal to everyone who batman is. Penguin will rise to power, start to reveal his plans as silent head of the newly formed Mafia in competition with the Black Mask for control and as Mayor.

...Black mask also employ's the Riddler to find out the identity of the Holiday killer. When the Riddler finds out who it is and reveals his findings to the Black Mask, a hit is ordered for the Holiday Killer/ Catwoman. Catwoman corners the Riddler in his home and gets him to tell her where the Black Mask was going to be the next day which happens to be Valentine's Day. She lets the Riddler live and also employs his help in breaking into Arkham Asylum with his experise in bombmaking. Catwoman then in a disquise as a hot female tourist goes to where the black mask was going to be, walks up behind him and shoots him in the head.

...An explosion hits Arkham Asylum caused by Catwoman trying to get to the Joker so she can kill him. Batman answers the call thinking someone might have found out about Dent and was trying to get to him. Batman then faces off with the Catwoman and somehow she gets killed before she could kill the Joker. Two-face get's loose by killing the Doctor's helping him and see's the Catwoman fall to her death. Her mask will be ripped off and it reveals Rachel Dawes, and he looks up and see's Batman from where she fell from holding her mask. The Joker escapes in the comotion between him, Catwoman and Batman.

...The Riddler, who hates Bruce Wayne, finds out he is the Batman. So he sets up all these different Riddle scheme's to try and show the world that Bruce Wayne and Batman cannot Coexist. Setting up puzzle's that would make Batman have to be in one place while Bruce Wayne had to be at another. This is where I could see a Robin character show up but not dressing up as the robin, but as Batman at times he can't be. Then the Riddler starts to go mad because he's certain he solved the greatest riddle of all (who is Batman)so in a desperate attempt he kidnapps Bruce Wayne. He plans on blowing up Wayne Towers with Bruce Wayne tied up inside on live TV to prove to the world his revelation. But then at the last momment, Robin show's up dressed as the Batman, moves like the Batman and manages to save Bruce Wayne, But Robin along with the Riddler gets trapped inside the building as it explodes. The movie ends with the cliffhanger of Gotham thinking they just saw Batman get killed and in the final scene it show's a mafia style meeting room with some mobsters and the Joker, Two-face and the Penguin sitting at a table.

he looks like the vampire nosferatu

Mafia is never leaderless friend, someone will fill the shoes within 10 minutes.

In all honesty, I hope there is not a third Nolan film. I hate trilogies, and I think most of them fail.

In regards to Penguin, I hate it. I think this picture looks as trashy as Watchmen without a squid ending (if you can comprehend that - oh, wait, I can!). Nolan has already talked about Penguin. I believe he said no.

"There are certain characters that are easier to mesh with the more real take on Batman we're doing. The Penguin would be tricky." http://www.cinematical.com/2006/10/14/chris-nolan-says-no-to-the-penguin/

And thank goodness for this. It isn't his style. It is too diluted. It would ruin the realism of the films. I will have to admit that Two Face was well done though and thought that was going to be crap until I saw it. He also wasn't the main villain though. Speaking of main villains, not sure why people think that Penguin would make a good one... 'cause from the comics he pulled TDK from, Penguin is quite the pussy. Things that Nolan should have done, in my opinion, if he truly intended to do a trilogy: No Rachel Dawes, Harvey Dent introduced in first or second film, and Joker for the last film because Joker is the infinite nemesis. Joker is too awesome of a villain versus Batman to be replaced... sans Hush, but Batman isn't old enough for that.

So, finally, PSH... yeah, go for it in some other film. Stay out of Nolan's if he for some reason decides to do a third. I'll be surprised if he finds a superior villain to Joker to finish his series.

Ion, you make it sound as if the Penguin doesn't look like... A PENGUIN. Hell yeah, I'd believe more that some burnt guy with a messed up tux who's pissed off is out to kill rather than a man who is shaped penguin-like on some of his appendages is Batman's main problem. There ARE burn victims, you know? He would probably look a little more normal had he received the skin grafting. So, yeah, I believe that a Two Face is fairly plausible, and Penguin is not proper for the Nolan films. And look at what you said: "a rich nightclub owner who loses all of his Mafia money then loses his family fortune to try and win a settlement and is now out for revenge." Tell me. Is THAT strong enough for a Nolan movie? Is that better than Batman's primary nemesis, the Joker? No. It'd be one hell of a weak finish for Nolan. Penguin is too much of a fishy vagina to me. Also, what Nolan set up from Begins made TDK what it was. He had the DA's office for Dent, promotions for Gordon, and Joker card at the end of the film. Is there enough backing a Penguin plot? Would you really want to end this series with THE PENGUIN?! Well, I, for one, would not. I think he is a terrible villain and Hoffman would be mediocre at best in comparison to the previous villains.

Obviously, I have not read where Chester Cobblepot is like how you are saying he is. I'll take your word on it, Ion. How [frick]ing interesting is that though? A guy in a tux that wants to mess with people? Not very. And, Hell, if that really is how he is, sure, he is more believable than Two Face. Nolan's movies are adaptations of the comics; they are not claiming to be print to film exact transposures. The only person who claims that is Snyder (who isn't putting the squid ending in Watchmen). His face got jacked up either way and looked fair for what it was meant to be and do. Go ahead and "shat" on Nolan. That is your choice.

Glad that you don't care for Penguin because he sucks ass. And glad someone likes Killer Croc, but I don't see that happening in a Nolan film. Same story with Solomon Grundy, etc. Those types of villains. I've said it once, and I'll say it again; there is only one villain left who could do it, and that Batman is way older than the one in the current Nolan films - Hush. And Hush would confuse many since he manipulates several of Batman's nemeses.