{"id":81579,"date":"2015-11-04T08:52:07","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T08:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=81579"},"modified":"2015-11-04T08:52:07","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T08:52:07","slug":"lego-batman-movie-casts-a-fittingly-british-alfred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/lego-batman-movie-casts-a-fittingly-british-alfred\/","title":{"rendered":"Lego Batman movie casts a fittingly British Alfred"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The more we hear about the upcoming <em><strong>Lego Batman<\/strong><\/em> movie, the more we unashamedly can&#8217;t wait for it. Part of the reason for this is the excellent cast \u2013 it&#8217;s hard to think of anyone better for the roles they&#8217;ve been assigned to. As if to hammer home the point, another great addition has been made: Ralph Fiennes as Batman&#8217;s loyal butler, Alfred Pennyworth.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/heat-vision\/ralph-fiennes-lego-batman-finds-836338\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>, the Harry Potter and Spectre star will join a cast that already includes Will Arnett (Batman), Michael Cera (Robin) and Rosario Dawson (Batgirl), with Zach Galifianakis apparently in negotiations to play the Joker.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_81580\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-81580\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Ralph-Fiennes-as-Mallory-in-James-Bond-Skyfall.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-81580 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Ralph-Fiennes-as-Mallory-in-James-Bond-Skyfall.jpg\" alt=\"Ralph-Fiennes-as-Mallory-in-James-Bond-Skyfall\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Ralph-Fiennes-as-Mallory-in-James-Bond-Skyfall.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Ralph-Fiennes-as-Mallory-in-James-Bond-Skyfall-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Ralph-Fiennes-as-Mallory-in-James-Bond-Skyfall-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Ralph-Fiennes-as-Mallory-in-James-Bond-Skyfall-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Ralph-Fiennes-as-Mallory-in-James-Bond-Skyfall-616x411.jpg 616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-81580\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ralph Fiennes will play Alfred in The Lego Batman Movie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>With this bit of news, another name on our wish list has been\u00a0ticked off, and we&#8217;re sure there is plenty more to come. Few heroes have as strong a supporting cast or rogues&#8217; gallery as the Dark Knight, and we can&#8217;t wait to see who they have lined up for the likes of Catwoman, Penguin, Riddler et al&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The Lego Batman Movie<\/em> will be released in cinemas on 10 February 2017. For more news on the biggest movies, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imagineshop.co.uk\/magazines\/scifinow\/scifinow-issue-112.html\">pick up the latest issue of SciFiNow.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spectre and Harry Potter star has been cast in Lego Batman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":81581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,3],"tags":[2506],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Lb3bg_alfred_1966.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81579"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}