Thus, the latest speculation surrounding Matthew Modine’s character in the film. Hmmm. Thus far, we know that Tom Hardy as Bane will be a villain in the movie, and your guess is as good as ours as to how Nolan will approach the character of Catwoman. She may be a villain, she may not be. If the character of Nixon does turn out to be the on the side of bad, then at most, we suspect Modine’s involvement will be no bigger than Tom Wilkinson’s in Batman Begins. It more sounds to us like he’s a cog in the machine than a particularly evil, cackling menace. But we’ve been wrong before, and we’d bet hard cash that we will be wrong again. Read all that’s known about The Dark Knight Rises here.