Brian Damage
09-09-2008, 06:27 PM
...and the answer may surprise you.
“Some friend of mine told me he read that,” he said. “First I heard of it.”
Hoffman says no one has ever called him, but it’s possible that someone wants him to play the part and the rumour is being floated to capture his interest. If so, he isn’t saying yes. But he isn’t saying no either.
“I don’t think so,” he says, before he softened the stand a bit.
“I grew up a comic book fan, so I love that stuff. I love going to that stuff. I think what they’re doing with that whole Batman story is really true to what that whole Batman thing has always been. It’s one of the darkest origins of a superhero, to get all nerdy and geeky on you. That character sees his parents gunned down as a young child: I remember when I was a kid reading that story, so seeing it now come to life as the dark tale that it really is as an intense, really dark, very visceral, adult tale that they’re doing now, all the great work people are doing on it, of course I wouldn’t say, ‘Well, no, no no.’
“But I don’t know the reality of it, so I wouldn’t say ‘yes’ to you.”
http://communities.canada.com/shareit/blogs/stonereport/archive/2008/09/08/philip-seymour-hoffman-as-penguin-well-maybe.aspx
“Some friend of mine told me he read that,” he said. “First I heard of it.”
Hoffman says no one has ever called him, but it’s possible that someone wants him to play the part and the rumour is being floated to capture his interest. If so, he isn’t saying yes. But he isn’t saying no either.
“I don’t think so,” he says, before he softened the stand a bit.
“I grew up a comic book fan, so I love that stuff. I love going to that stuff. I think what they’re doing with that whole Batman story is really true to what that whole Batman thing has always been. It’s one of the darkest origins of a superhero, to get all nerdy and geeky on you. That character sees his parents gunned down as a young child: I remember when I was a kid reading that story, so seeing it now come to life as the dark tale that it really is as an intense, really dark, very visceral, adult tale that they’re doing now, all the great work people are doing on it, of course I wouldn’t say, ‘Well, no, no no.’
“But I don’t know the reality of it, so I wouldn’t say ‘yes’ to you.”
http://communities.canada.com/shareit/blogs/stonereport/archive/2008/09/08/philip-seymour-hoffman-as-penguin-well-maybe.aspx