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Nicolas Cage Wants to Play a “Terrifying” Version of Batman Villain Egghead

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We will soon get to see Nicolas Cage play Count Dracula in Universal’s Renfield, but what other classic villains would Cage like to play? Well, for starters, Batman villain Egghead!

At SXSW over the weekend, Cage soft-pitched his dream comic book role.

“I’ve been thinking about this, because we have this new, Robert Pattinson as the Batman, which I’m excited to see but I haven’t seen it yet. The villain that Vincent Price played on the ’60s show, Egghead. I think I want to have a go at Egghead,” Cage told a reporter at SXSW. “I think I could make him absolutely terrifying. And I have a concept for Egghead.”

Cage adds with a smile, “So let them know over at Warner Bros. I’m down for Egghead.”

Believing himself to be “the world’s smartest criminal,” Egghead was indeed played by the late Vincent Price in the 1960s “Batman” series, a character created specifically for the show.

Price played Egghead in a handful of episodes. The character most recently appeared briefly in The LEGO Batman Movie, and has to date never appeared in a live action film.

Could we someday see Nicolas Cage as Egghead in a future Batman movie? It would be an inspired way to tap into the more obscure side of Gotham, to say the very least.

And we kind of need to see it. As soon as possible.

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‘Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare’ – First Image from ‘Poohniverse’ Horror Movie

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The filmmakers behind Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey are expanding their public domain horror universe with a handful of upcoming “Poohniverse” movies, including Bambi: The Reckoning, Pinocchio: Unstrung, and Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare.

Variety has scored the first image from Neverland Nightmare, seen above.

The website details, “Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare follows Wendy Darling as she strikes out in an attempt to rescue her brother Michael from ‘the clutches of the evil Peter Pan.’ Along the way she meets Tinkerbell, who in this twisted version of the story will be seen taking heroine, convinced that it’s pixie dust.”

Scott Jeffrey will direct Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare, expected Halloween 2024.

Jeffrey tells us, “I am taking inspiration from French cinema while in prep for this movie. The film will be incredibly tense. I would say it’s a mesh between Switchblade Romance and The Black Phone with our own spin on it. It is a nasty, violent and incredibly dark movie.”

Megan Placito has joined the cast as Wendy Darling, Kit Green is Tinkerbell, Peter DeSouza-Feighoney (The Pope’s Exorcist) is Michael Darling and Charity Kase (RuPaul Drag Race) is James. Martin Portlock will be playing the twisted version of Peter Pan.

Created by J.M. Barrie way back in 1902, the character of Peter Pan – like Winnie the Pooh – is in the public domain, even if the iconic Disney iteration of the character is very much not.

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