Brett Cullen and Chris Ellis join ‘The Dark Knight Rises’

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More casting news from Variety. This time the trade’s Jeff Sneider reports that Brett Cullen and Chris Ellis have joined the cast of The Dark Knight Rises. According to Variety, Cullen will play a judge and Ellis will play a priest.

SOURCE: Variety

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  • Sauce

    Goodwin!

  • Anonymous

    Priest ! The theme of TDKR is going to be LIFE AND DEATH !

  • Thejokersmiles13

    I think everyone has seen these 2 at one point or another either way I like these two. Variety says that Cullen is playing a judge and Ellis a priest.

  • Anonymous

    AAAAAAAAA ! That was doing my head in , i reconised the guy on the left , but could not remember were from , and the first comment did not make sense ! then it hit me ,Goodwin from LOST !

  • http://grauskala.blogspot.com/ One_Eyed_Willie

    This Brett Cullen guy looks alot like an older version of Harvey Dent. A priest should been appeared since Begins! I mean, it’s a cool “goth” element for the Bat’s, don’t you think?

    • Anonymous

      Yeah can you imagine , BATMAN , on the edge of death , after BANE has destroyed him , being given his last rights by the priest !

  • Anonymous

    I actually reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally like the idea of Ellis as a priest. For some reason, I can totally see that as a part of the film. Now we just have to wait and see exactly HOW Nolan uses him…

  • Buckley4

    I can already picture the scene in my head of Bruce Wayne in a confession booth, anonymously revealing himself as Batman and describing his struggles

  • Anonymous

    I only made it through a couple episodes of Lost before I “lost” interest. It would seem Nolan is fan.

  • http://twitter.com/lethargicj Jason Castleman

    A judge and a priest??  YEEEEEAAHHHHH RIIIIIIIGHTTT!!!  It’s obvious to everybody that Sneider is Hugo Strange and Cullen is his beard!!  

    • Antrozous

      Why so… sarcastic?

  • http://www.facebook.com/michael.draycott?ref=profile Scottish_Natural_Water

    Another LOST actor in Christopher Nolan’s trilogy :D Woo!

  • Antrozous

    Well, we do need a new judge since the last one blew up in her Mercedes…

    The priest is obviously to marry Bruce and we know who hahahahaha!!! Just kidding…

  • Anonymous

    A priest huh? I wonder if its to do with Selina Kyle. Probably just a guy with one line but cool none the less.

  • Anonymous

    I trust we’re not going to hear about EVERY actor cast. I like hearing news about this movie as much as the next fan. But some of these actors probably have just a few lines.

  • Anonymous

     Hope that’s the priest that teaches the inmates in Santa Prisca prison. In the comics the priest is blinded by one of the inmates, then Bane kills the inmate in revenge. However, years later when seeking information about his own father, Bane questions that same priest before killing him to keep him quite.

    • Anonymous

      Cool , Great Batman knolage , that would be EPIC ,welcome to the site !

      • Anonymous

        Thanks EBostock!

  • Godspeeding

    Ellis as a priest seems flawlessly perfect to me and i dont know why

  • Greeny147

    Anybody know if  Keith Szarabajka (Stephens) is returning to Gotham PD. No word, so I doubt it, but I thought he was a good supporting character in Dark Knight. If I remember correctly he was in that shot of Gordon breaking down the bat light.

    • Anonymous

      Yeah, I really liked him. I’d be keen to see him again, maybe with a permanent neck scar.

    • Anonymous

      Keith Szarabajka would have been the greatest Bullock to Oldman’s Gordon.

  • http://grauskala.blogspot.com/ One_Eyed_Willie

    Hey, I’m wondering… BN and BOF always put almost the same pics in their articles… who puts first? Would be good to BN to get some differencial from BOF, you know…

    • http://batman-news.com Batman-News.com

      I almost always put up the articles first. I had this one about Brett Cullen & Chris Ellis the night before BOF posted it.

      • http://grauskala.blogspot.com/ One_Eyed_Willie

        Fair enough… I believe you! But it was only an observation that you share the exactly same pic montage with BOF, but flipped.

        • http://batman-news.com Batman-News.com

          Yeah, he used the same images of the actor that I did. I don’t think we have the same pictures too often though. I think there’s a lot of other things that differentiate our sites :)

          • http://grauskala.blogspot.com/ One_Eyed_Willie

            Sure, sure! You’re right… the sites are really different, BOF gimme some headaches visually speaking! :D

          • Anonymous

            No just 1 thing ! NO B.S on Batman-news.com

          • http://batman-news.com Batman-News.com

            @One_Eyed_Willie:disqus lol yeah, my #1 goal with Batman-News.com was to make a site that had a nice, modern design. I wanted to make it really easy to find news too. I hope you find the tags, categories, and photo gallery useful! :)

        • Anonymous

          Dude , come on , of course there are going to be similar pics , come Summer 2012 were all going to be watching the same movie .

          • http://grauskala.blogspot.com/ One_Eyed_Willie

            huahuah! Yeah, but the same pic montage is lot of…err… “BOFism”? hehe

          • http://batman-news.com Batman-News.com

            @One_Eyed_Willie:disqus I posted this story (with the picture) on May 23rd, when the news came out. BOF didn’t post it until May 24th. Of course we’ll have similar pictures, but Batman-News.com is usually first to post news. We get a lot more traffic than BOF too! :)

          • Anonymous

            I am not surprised you get more traffic , i followed BOF for years and to Boil it all down to simple terms Batman-news is far more USER FRIENDLY than BOF !

          • Anonymous

            User friendly, as late, has become something of a side-issue. BOF’s antagonism of late has been grating. If I was a first-time visitor looking for a set picture and had the show-runner effectively call me — in his own words — an “A-hole”, I’d never go back.