Hmmmm - my thinking would be he may wanna stay away from franchises for a bit.

Seeing as he is already associated with Batman and Terminator. Could be wrong tho.

And I could easily see he as Dr Strange HOWEVER the origins of that character are so similar to Batman Begins I am not sure he would see the story as 'different' enough for him to do it.

@Xenix I know all about that controversy, and I wrote it out in this piece. Marvel could do a one character deal for him. And with some of the great villains, I think marvel may have made addendums in the contracts about being able to use them still. Think I have seen that. I know that it's "if they're used in a film, we get their rights for 8 years" - something like that, "then they revert back if we don't use them," but we all know the problem there is that they're going to keep using them just to keep them.

@Intruder hell, that's a great idea. I should've included him. Was aware there were a few important ones I was missing, but it's great you guys put 'em up.

@Kerosene was also thinking that, would be much much better with Bale. Had thought about putting almost exactly what you said there.


It's not an issue of type casting. It is in fact quite a privelage to end up with a footprint in each of these universes. And if the trend continues, it's also going to be one of the few ways you can get a summer blockbuster acting gig. I see it staying pretty strong for another couple years myself.

He plays a great angry Guy, BALE FOR HULK!

Interesting read 48... I'm sure MARVEL has their eye on him!

The'd be silly not too!

ROB @ JOSH @ Heck YES to any of them choices! :)

Christian Bale is indeed one of my favourite actors....and because he's done the broody stuff in the Batman franchise. i'd like him to do some kind of over the top role...i loved the jig he did before killing Paul Allen in American Psycho.

Mr. Sinister pic posted above is something that looks Bale!

what about .... Christian Bale as: Moon Knight, marvel's Batman lol

@Ronnie11 I looked for quite a while, actually have been looking for months, and can't figure it out. I'll dig some more and see what I can find. As I said, know there is a contractual obligation that if Fox actually uses the character (or Columbia, or any studio), they retain the character for 4 or 8 years. Since the legal wrangling is essentially still underway with Disney having the money to reacquire the rights, I don't think they want the info public. I believe this was Avi Arad's doing, and part of the reason he's been pushed down. I don't think they're (Marvel) very happy about it. It's really, more or less, a big screw up.

@deaconblackfire that's a fair conjecture, and I do agree with you that the main reason he's stuck with the Batman franchise is because of Nolan, but he's shown plenty of interest in heroic character portrayal. There is no doubt in my mind, nor should there be, that if he were offered any A-list hero in a well written script, he wouldn't take it in a split second.

Thing is though, that if TDKR is as brilliant as alot of us are expecting, it will win a best picture nod, and it will push the trend in the industry even further, and everyone's going to try and perfect the cbm trilogy (it's already happening with Abram's Star trek). So we can look for at least 2 more years of cbms being on top.

I'm just gonna come out and say it; It's verly unlikely that Bale will appear in any other CBM at all after TDKR. He's not an actor to keep retreading the same genre/style. I don't even think he's a big CBM fan, he just liked the script for Batman Begins and liked working with Nolan (hence why he returned for TDK).
Good editorial though ;)

@ 48and2

You're close, but you're a little off. Fox and Sony's deals don't say they have to use the CHARACTERS or they revert. Here's an example. Fox bought the rights to the Fantastic Four, and that includes all FF related characters and villains. So as long as they keep making FF movies, that means they keep the rights to all the FF related characters also. Another example would be all the characters we keep hearin will be in First Class. A lot of those characters haven't been used yet, and its been 10 years since the first X-Movie was made, yet they still have the rights to them.

Its the only way they could do it. Take the X-Men movies. The fist X-Men movie came out 10 years ago. If they were going to lose the rights to ALL of the X-Men's kick ass villains if they didnt use them, then Fox would have used other villains than Magneto by now. But they didn't, Magneto has been the main threat in every X-Men movie so far. I don't think Fox would let characters like Sinister, Apocalypse and everyone else from their rogues gallery slip through their fingers just because they didn't use them, y'know?

So yeah, character rights would only revert back if they didn't make a movie based on their respective franshises. :)

48and2@ Thanks! If you like old school Christopher Lee type of horror movies you should read The Tomb Of Dracula!:)... Its awesome!
The right director for the movie would be Guillermo Del Toro or David Fincher.