It's no secret that Oppenheimer star Cillian Murphy auditioned for the title role in 2005's Batman Begins, and while Christian Bale was ultimately chosen to play the Dark Knight, the Irish actor still ...

Gary Oldman thinks he might’ve been eyed for the role of Scarecrow prior to being cast as Jim Gordon in Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins. Speaking with Josh Horowitz on the Happy Sad Confused podcast ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Photo Credit: Warner Bros.) Robert Downey Jr. still remembers his unsuccessful attempt to play the Scarecrow in 2005’s Batman ...

Robert Downey Jr.'s 'Oppenheimer' costar Cillian Murphy played the villain Scarecrow across Christopher Nolan's three Batman movies Tommy McArdle is a Writer-Reporter on the Movies team at PEOPLE. He ...

To say that 2005's Batman Begins led to the Caped Crusader's renaissance in the live-action superhero film genre would be an understatement since it's due to director Christopher Nolan and star ...

Christopher Nolan didn’t seem impressed by his pitch. Downey went on to say that he met with Nolan to discuss the part. “I remember meeting for tea, and I was like, ‘He doesn’t seem like he’s really ...

In Batman Begins (2005), Dr. Jonathan Crane, aka Scarecrow, is portrayed by Cillian Murphy and is the first villain the Bat takes on. Crane merges psychological horror as a real-world menace as a ...

Robert Downey Jr. revealed during a career retrospective interview at Los Angeles’ American Cinematheque theater that he originally met Christopher Nolan ahead of “Batman Begins” to discuss the ...

Per Entertainment Weekly, Downey did a Q&A in Los Angeles after a screening of Oppenheimer. (Yes, it’s still playing in theaters, over six months after its release. Go see it on IMAX 70mm if you can.) ...

Shane Romanchick is a TV and Movie News author for Collider. He also runs his own blog Entershanement Reviews where he writes about and reviews the latest movies. He graduated from Regis College in ...

Robert Downey Jr. still remembers his unsuccessful attempt to play the Scarecrow in 2005’s Batman Begins. “I’m pretty sure that I heard, like, ‘there’s this role, Scarecrow,’ and I was like, ‘psh, I’m ...