Official Title: The Dark Knight Rises
Villain Rumor: Tom Hardy (Inception, Bronson) will be playing Hugo Strange
http://screenrant.com/tom-hardy-hugo-strange-batman-dark-knight-rises-kofi-88427/
The version of Strange you’re most likely to see onscreen is the one where the character is a prominent (or celebrity) psychologist with mob ties. In the famous Batman storyline “Prey”, Hugo Strange is tapped by the Gotham P.D. to work up a profile on the Batman, in order to help the police catch the vigilante. Strange is said to have been raised in “Hell’s Crucible,” a tough Gotham neighborhood not far from “Crime Alley,” that infamous site where Bruce Wayne’s parents were murdered. While brilliant, Strange is also violent and unstable – in one version of his origin he was suspended from his tenure at Gotham State University for conducting bizarre experiments that transformed people into mindless, destructive (and deformed) brutes.
Strange becomes increasingly obsessed with discovering who Batman is, and eventually with actually becoming Batman himself (which he eventually does, doing some terrible things in Batman’s name). The twisted villain eventually deduces through his psyche examinations that Bruce Wayne is likely Batman, and uses that knowledge to turn the police against the vigilante and lure Batman to his doom.
Tom Hardy in "Inception": http://www.metacafe.com/watch/4870020/inception_dream_a_little_bigger_clip/
Tom Hardy in "Bronson":
Hugo Strange:
