THE DARK KNIGHT RISES

Marion Cotillard could be reteaming with director Christoper Nolan after the two collaborated in last year's cash cow and universally lauded Inception. Cotillard, who won an Oscar for 2007's La Vie en Rose, is being penned as the love interest in the final chapter of Nolan's Batman trilogy.

One character that's been thrown around incessantly has been Talia al Ghul, the daughter of Ra's: Liam Neeson from Batman Begins. This would provide a nice bookend to Nolan's tale, as well as allow one of the best actresses around to strut her stuff alonside equally capable counterparts Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman et al.

In the comics, Talia actually got knocked up (kinda. The baby was actually grown artificially in a laboratory, and engineered to perfection, but he still shares the DNA of Talia and Bats) by the Caped Crusader and "birthed" Damien Wayne, who would later become the fifth incarnation of the boy wonder Robin.

Anne Hathaway is already confirmed as Selina Kyle/Catwoman, while Tom Hardy is set (to break Batman's spine?) as the hulking and highly intelligent Bane.

July 20, 2012 cannot get here quickly enough.