Knowing how Nolan likes to work against the grain, I think Hardy will be playing Clayface. Clayface is a good B-list villain who can easily be worked into Nolan’s realistic superhero story.

I’m really not sure who he’ll play. The guy’s an awesome actor who can do villain or good guy. I almost don’t want him to be Riddler (if indeed Riddler’s in it) as I feel it’d be too obvious. With how he beefed up for Bronson, maybe Bane? But done ALOT better than how he was portrayed in the god awful Batman & Robin.

I think if there is a villain in the third Batman flick, it’ll most likely be either The Riddler, The Penguin or Catwoman. I don’t really see Tom Hardy fitting into any of those roles. Well, maybe Catwoman.

I’d like it if they went the Riddler/Hush route and did the Hush storyline.

If they did do Clayface they’d mostly have him be the first Clayface who just wore a mask.

i was hoping nolan would grab joseph gordon levit for riddler but tom hardy is great especially in rock’n'rolla

Robin? ROBIN???? hahahahahahahaha

I think it’s important to remember when they were casting The Dark Knight. One of the things that remains clear in my mind is when it was released that “Anthony Michael Hall has been cast in The Dark Knight.” Everyone began speculating wildly about what iconic role he would play (especially guessing he would be Edward Nigma/the Riddler), and he ended up playing “kidnapped TV news reporter.”

I’m just sayin.’

a young alfred??? flash back scenes. hes english after all. i can see scenes with a young alfred being in it. Maybe some kinda of gangster… or maybe the vintriloquist.

Sketch said:

“Ehhh… I don’t know about Clayface. I don’t see villains with superpowers fitting into Nolan’s world.”

If we’re talkin the original Clayface he’s fair game. However, Super power characters can fit into Nolan’s Batman world. They can be depowered. Croc can be change into a human muscular Australian Crocodile Hunter. Bane can be change into a muscular Mexican Luchador. Etc..there are no limits on modified characters. What? Did we have dip Ra into the lazarus pit in Begins?

I’m willing to bet he’ll be an ally of Batman’s. Perhaps Jason Bard? That sounds likely to me.

I knew I knew him from somewhere other than Inception. The villain from Star Trek: Nemesis. He’d make a really good Hush, for sure. I hope that’s the direction they go, but no matter what’s done, I can’t imagine it will be a let down in any way as long as Chris Nolan is behind the camera and Christian Bale is still under the cape and cowl.

Why is everyone assuming a villain? How about Jason Bard?

Again why comic fans don’t make movies. I cannot fathom how/why Nolan would do a continuity-heavy character like Hush. That makes no sense.

I think they should be inventive and go without a “main villain”. These movies always end in a video game boss fight sort of way when that’s in the mix. I want this to be about Batman being hunted by Gotham.

Riddler, my guess. I figure he’s going to be a local Gotham celebrity. Genius guy who won a lot of game shows. Very clever, knowledgeable, deductive. A real problem-solver. The mayor puts him on the Batman-manhunt (likely to determine Batman’s identity) after finally getting fed up with Gordon’s failure to catch him (because, of course, he’s not really trying).

Meanwhile, the mob (or what’s left of it) decides to conduct a little Bat-hunt of their own. Enter Talia Al Ghul who ordinarily wouldn’t be working with the mob, but the enemy of my enemy and such forth… and she’s quite pissed about what happened to her dad.

Oh dear, I’m getting ahead of myself again.

@Mike – Hardy got the most screentime of anyone beside Leo, Ellen Page (whatever, she wasn’t a character, just an audience conduit), Levitt (pretty close) and maybe Marion Cotillard in the overrated Inception.
While I do not have a part in any kind of conference calls between Nolan and his personnel or any involvement otherwise in the decision-making process for his Batman moviefilms, I think it’s relatively safe to say that Tom Hardy will not be playing the analagous role to Hall’s “kidnapped TV news reporter.”
Have you viewed Bronson? That’s a hell of a performance there.

The Dark Knight ended with Batman as an outlaw. They don’t even need to cast a villain if they don’t want. They could have another hero come in and try to catch Batman if they wanted.

Hmmm. Maybe Deadshot or Deathstroke?

Seriously, guys, stop with the Hush. That arc has way too many characters which have not even been established in the films. And as was mentioned, Hush himself would be impossible to just insert into the films without aforementioned establishment.

Killer Croc is only non-human or super-human depending on the writer. He’s supposed to be little more than a cannibal with a skin condition. So, he could be used…but I still think it may be too cartoony of a character.

Same for Riddler. Why he seems to be the popular choice, I’ve no idea. He’s not a very threatening villain, and he’s campy.

I second Bruce’s call for Black Mask. Joker just eliminated a good chunk of the crime bosses, leaving a perfect void for Black Mask to fill. And with his hatred of Wayne, it would mean Bats will be getting crap in both identities.

I think Batman 3 will be very different than Dark Knight.

I think the story of Batman 3 is his one man war on crime as an outlaw, and his realization that it is a crusade with no end except death (unlike his thinking in Dark Knight), whether he is supported by the law or not. That’s the logical conclusion to the story and Nolan says he wants to finish the story – it’s the elements of the Dark Knight Returns but in a different context. It’s Batman versus corrupt police, corrupt politicians, gangsters, crazy psychotics, righteous law enforcers who support corrupt institutions. So I think the villians in this will be one’s that support that story.

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“Well, I wasn’t supposed to really know them, right?” Nolte says. “I think it helped that we were strangers. Tom, he’s a hell of an actor though. My scene in the hotel room, he improvised this bit where, there I was screaming, he came over and held me. He’s got great instincts.” That is a comment by Nick Nolte, gotta say that it is perking up my interest in the upcoming Warrior and yes from his past onscreen roles, I would say that he is a very very talented actor!