Question: Why doesn't the movie acknowledge the actress change for Rachel? I mean everyone who watched Batman Begins will be clueless if they didn't know that Katie Holmes chose not to reprise her role. But the movie never explains this and are people just supposed to go along with it?
Arrntv2
7th Jan 2016
The Dark Knight (2008)
Answer: I'm really not sure how you think a movie can address an actor being replaced. Unless it's something like Deadpool or Wayne's World, where characters speak directly to the audience, there's no real practical way for a movie to openly acknowledge that one of its characters is being played by someone new.
Answer: Katie Holmes expressed interest in returning but wasn't overly impressed with the script and had other projects that kept her from reprising her role. It happens all the time in movies with scheduling conflicts or actors/actresses being unimpressed with a script. If they aren't under contract (some trilogies have contracts that lock a certain actor in for all three movies regardless of personal feelings) they can refuse.
7th Jan 2016
Man of Steel (2013)
7th Jan 2016
Man of Steel (2013)
Question: Why does Lois fall when everything else is getting sucked into the black hole? And then superman has to fly with all his might to make sure she doesn't get sucked into the black hole? This doesn't make any sense. There are heavy rocks and debris getting sucked into that thing and Lois falls like she's heavier than all of them.
Answer: Lois wasn't affected by the Phantom Energy and the singularity only takes in things bathed in Phantom Energy like the debris affected by the Black Zero.
Chosen answer: Actors are often changed between movies, occasionally with acknowledgment, more often not. James Bond immediately comes to mind, Jennifer in Back to the Future, Bruce Banner and Rhodey in the Marvel films, Clarice Starling in the Silence of the Lambs/Hannibal...the list goes on. The recasting of Evelyn in The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor got a passing nod to the audience (actually, as did the first recasting of Bond), but most of the time audiences are just expected to accept the change and move on.
Jon Sandys ★
Also, while some movies (e.g. Iron Man 2, On Her Majesty's Secret Service and The Mummy 3) have had a nod to a replacement actor, if it is done badly, it can annoy the audience and distract from the story.