From SHH!

The UK tabloids strike again. One, who shall remain unnamed, is claiming that Eddie Murphy is playing The Riddler in the next Batman movie, that Shia LaBeouf will play Robin and that Rachel Weisz is up for the role of Catwoman. Not only that, but the tabloid says the movie will come out in 2010, and that the movie “will end on a cliffhanger over whether Batman survives a blast at Wayne Towers.”

All of the above is, of course, not true. Moving on…

This was followed up by a less-than-surprising rebuttle from Alan Horn that, of course, debunked all of these… I guess “debunked” for anyone dumb enough to believe them:

From collider.com:

“We’ve been talking to Chris Nolan and what we have to do is get him in the right place and have him tell us what he thinks the notion might be for a great story, but Chris did a great job and we’d love to have him come back and do another one.”

As far as the timing of the project, he went onto say: “The story is everything and we are very respectful of Chris. We have a wonderful relationship with him and we are going to be respectful of his timing and we want to get it right. Also, I think the fans expect that – they want us to make a terrific movie – we have to give them another great movie.”

Sigh… the things people pull out of their asses…

UPDATE: I believe these are the folks that originally reported this “story”.