Don't You Forget About Me, Batman!

(originally published at the now-defunct www.poweredbymovies.com)

More comic book rumors abound. It's been brought to the attention of, well, pretty much every movie gossip site that Anthony Michael Hall may make a cameo in The Dark Knight, Christopher Nolan's second part of the Batman relaunch, as the man who would become quizzical supervillain The Riddler. Whether you consider this good news or not, that's beside the point. What really matters is that there's more to this story, a further rumor nobody seems to be aware of.

Not only will Hall be the Riddler, the entire cast of 1985's John Hughes' high school brilliance The Breakfast Club are all set to make appearances in the new film as some of the baddies of Gotham City. Not having met as a single group since they were forced together to suffer through a weekend detention, it will be a reunion of epic proportions.

-Judd Nelson, who played bad-ass John Bender, will play Joe Chill, the man responsible for the death of Bruce Wayne's parents. The man who played him in Batman Begins could not return due to a nasty meth addiction.

-Molly Ringwald, the prissy Claire Standish, will follow in the footsteps of Uma Thurman, lay on the leaves, and play Poison Ivy. Great, easy casting.

-Ally Sheedy will play against type and be the new version of Mr. Freeze, far different than her anti-social Goth girl Allison Reynolds.

-Emilio Estevez, a.k.a. jock Andy Clark, will be the Penguin, but there's a twist to the character: Estevez himself has asked permission to follow-up his historical film Bobby with the underworld adventures of the recently murdered Robert F. Kennedy and has chosen Gotham City to act as said afterlife, so the Penguin has been altered to being an insane director whose plot has nothing to do with Batman or really anybody else in the cast. His producer, though, will be played by the ghost of Paul Gleason.