While Scarecrow wasn't the main villain of Batman Begins, this mad doctor helped set the groundwork for the rest of the risk-taking trilogy. The big theme of the first film was Bruce Wayne ...

“Everybody was so excited by watching you perform [screen tests] that when I then said to them, ‘Okay, Christian Bale is Batman, but what about Cillian to play Scarecrow?’ there was no dissent.

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Hot Toys has announced a new Scarecrow 2.0 from Batman Begins. Shipment is expected between ...

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 ...

Robert Downey Jr. has revealed that he met with Christopher Nolan to discuss the Scarecrow role in Batman Begins, the first entry of The Dark Knight trilogy, but ultimately lost out to Cillian Murphy.

The amount of villains that make up Batman’s rogues gallery is a disturbing number that seems to only ever climb higher, with ...

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 ...

Cillian Murphy is the star of one of the most anticipated movies of this summer, and one that’s among the least summer movie-y: Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, about the father of the atomic ...

That kind of glitzy—and what some might call stunt—casting came to an end with Batman Begins (2005 ... but what about Cillian to play Scarecrow?’ there was no dissent.” ...

RDJ dropping BOMBS at the @am_cinematheque conversation. He apparently met w/Nolan for SCARECROW for Batman Begins only to be beat out by Cillian Murphy. Woah! #Oppenheimer pic.twitter.com ...

Instead of Downey Jr., Nolan decided to cast Cillian Murphy as Scarecrow in “Batman Begins.” That casting would kick off a years-long collaboration between Murphy and the director, which has ...