The Forgotten Comic Book Hook For Those Breathless Movie Casting News Stories—Creator Paydays

It just occurred to me this morning that there was an actual comics hook to the otherwise not-really-comics-at-all news that actress Anne Hathaway will be playing Catwoman and actor Tom Hardy will be playing Bane in Christopher Nolan's third Batman movie. Judging from what is public knowledge about royalty checks issued to people (like Len Wein) for the first two films' use of the supporting characters (like Lucius Fox), the selection of the Bane character for one of the new film's baddies would seem to mean an eventual payday for his creators -- a not-always-reliable public-sourced encyclopedia tells me that's writers Chuck Dixon and Doug Moench; artist Graham Nolan -- that would not be coming their way if the filmmakers had decided to make the character Hugo Strange (who is a Bill Finger/Bob Kane character) or some new dude named "Dr. Steroid" or something. Actually, I don't 100 percent know this to be true, and I'm slightly worried in that this wasn't an element of the few mainstream comics-focused stories about the casting I checked, but it stands to figure. If I'm right, good for those creators, they deserve as many payouts as is possible for them to receive, and the fact that this was done in the execution of the earlier movies seemed to me an undeniably good thing.
 
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