From Batman to Terminator to Mars?

As per his sources and using his keen sense of detection (i.e. reading between the lines), Drew "Moriarty" McWeeny reports that Christian Bale is a candidate to play the title role in John Carter of Mars. A film adaptation of the book-series has been in development for years under various directors (including a pre-Iron Man Jon Favreau and Robert Rodriguez) and currently set up at Pixar with Wall-E director Andrew Stanton at the helm.

Now let's be fair here. He flat-out asked Bale during his Terminator: Salvation junket about the possibly with the answer: "I don't know what that is."

The thing is though McWeeny knows his shit. His track-record speaks for itself. So let's just assume for the sake of argument that this is true and Bale does in fact headline John Carter of Mars.

Doesn't he honestly have enough frachises on his plate already? To headline one franchise spawning three films would be enough for one actor. But Bale's currently doing press for Terminator: Salvation. And if that does as well as many are expecting, we'll certainly get two more installments.

Not to mention, he'll done the cape and cowl at least one more time for Batman III (eventually) - whether or not Christopher Nolan directs him for a third time remains to be seen.