Nicolas Cage wants to play Egghead in Matt Reeves’ The Batman sequel
"I think I can make him absolutely terrifying," says Cage about the Batman villain
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This article contains a brief discussion of the ending of The Batman.
The Batman’s ending sets itself up for a sequel, with a certain villain bonding with The Riddler in prison; they appear to already be planning how to bring more chaos into Gotham once they get out. Now, Nicolas Cage, throwing his hat in the ring, wants to join them by playing an obscure Batman villain: Egghead.
While on the red carpet for the SXSW premiere of The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent, Cage was asked by a FOX 7 Austin reporter what role he’d like to play after tackling nearly every type of character throughout his career. Cage responded by saying, “I’ve been thinking about this, because you know we have the this new [movie with] Robert Pattinson as The Batman, which I’m excited to see. I haven’t seen it yet but I think it would be terrific.”
He then revealed that he would like to be considered for the role of Egghead, the Batman villain that wasn’t part of the comics, but was portrayed by Vincent Price in the 1960s series. “The villain that Vincent Price played on the 1960s show, Egghead, I think I want to have a go at Egghead. I think I can make him absolutely terrifying. And I have a concept for Egghead. So let them know over at Warner Bros., I’m down for Egghead.”
Egghead has yet to make his live-action cinematic debut, though he briefly appeared in The LEGO Batman Movie. He also showed up on Batman: The Brave And The Bold.
Sure, Egghead isn’t as important of a Batman villain as others who didn’t appear in The Batman, (like Poison Ivy, Scarecrow, Harley Quinn, and Two-Face) but it would make sense for him to pop up in Matt Reeves’ Batman universe. Much like The Riddler, Egghead managed to crack the mystery of Batman’s true identity—though he conveniently always had his memory wiped whenever he’d get too close to getting official confirmation.
Reeves has yet to announce whether The Batman is actually getting a sequel, but at least he knows there’s the option of bringing in triple the chaos for his sulking, grungy Batman.
[Variety]
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Where do I sign the petition to make this happen?
Reeves has yet to announce whether The Batman is actually getting a sequelWB already has more than 400 million reasons to make a sequel. They will do it with or without Reeves.
Also I thought Reeves had publicly stated he wanted to do a self contained trilogy when he was asked about adding other heroes like Superman, etc . . ?
Yay another trilogy. Then we can get another damn reboot. Just do Batman stories. It doesn’t need to be more.
Yeah for some reason Hollywood has REALLY latched on to trilogies as the way movies should be made. Star Wars, 3 times, LOTR, The Matrix, Indian Jones.In fact, Indiana Jones and the Matrix both went over 3 movies and what happened? 4th movie sucked and didnt make money! So Clearly 3 IS the magic number. Yes it is.
Tell that to the matrix and dark knight trilogies where that wasn’t the case. Bringing back IP for a buck decades after the fact is a different problem.
This may be just a thought that has been passing intermittently through Nicolas Cage’s mind for years – it’s just that it was an entirely meaningless string of words until Matt Reeves made a The Batman film, at which point he was like ‘oh right – yes, I should absolutely do that.’
and so he shall…
I’m down for it. I don’t know anything about Egghead, but I do know that I’m tired of the usual Batman villains even if it was refreshing to get a movie with Riddler as the main baddie instead of Joker for once.
Batman Begins didn’t have Joker as the main baddie either.
That’s true, not all of the Batman films have used the Joker as the main villain . We’ve had quite a few interpretations of the character in the last 20 years in both live action and animated media, so it was nice moving the focus away from him again.
Nick Cage doing egg puns on screen would be eggcellent
My only regret is I had only one egg pun to give!
this is interesting to me because cage used to be a huge advocate for comic books and comic book movies (the cage in his name was swiped from luke cage), but hasn’t really spoken about them that much since they became so dominant.
They need to get him into the MCU, he would make a great Henry Peter Gyrich.
He was Spider-Man Noir in Spider-Verse.
Her?
I don’t think it’s accurate to say the Riddler cracked Batman’s identity in the new film.