Tom Hardy might be the villian in Batman 3

Fuck. Yes. Back in July, people were saying that Christopher Nolan would take someone he just worked with in 'Inception' and cast them as the villain, probably the Riddler, in the follow up to 'the Dark Knight'. At the time the choice was reportedly Joseph Gordon-Levitt. I was hoping for Tom Hardy. Deadline Hollywood makes dreams come true!

I'm told that Hardy has been set by Nolan for a lead role in the next Batman film at Warner Bros. Insiders are keeping the role secret and won't even say if he's up for a villain role, but that seems a reasonable assumption.

Hardy is a tremendous actor, and one of the very few who could follow what Ledger did in 'Dark Knight'. And if you're wondering, "what does this have to do with brand new naked pictures of UK model Lucy Pinder", well, thanks, that's real nice. Obviously I loaded the wrong pictures. Maybe I should come to your job and harp on every little mistake you make, see how you like it!