"Once I had a wife, my great love. She was taken from me."
It is being reported by BadAssDigest that The Dark Knight Rises director Christopher Nolan is currently looking to cast an actress in the role of young Ra’s al Ghul’s Wife…
“My sources – who have been pretty good so far – tell me that they’re casting Ra’s Al Ghul’s wife right now. We may get a serious look back at the life of Ra’s.” (badassdigest)
Perhaps this is obvious given some of Liam Neeson’s lines in Batman Begins and the recent casting of Josh Pence to play a young Ra’s al Ghul.
Some of Ra’s al Ghul’s/Henri Ducard's lines from Nolan’s Batman Begins:
Henri Ducard: You're stronger than your father.
Bruce Wayne: You didn't know my father.
Henri Ducard: But I know the rage that drives you. That impossible anger strangling the grief, until the memory of your loved ones is just poison in your veins. And one day you catch yourself wishing the person you loved had never existed, so you'd be spared your pain. I wasn't always here in the mountains. Once I had a wife, my great love. She was taken from me. Like you, I was forced to learn that there are those without decency that must be fought without hesitation, without pity. Your anger gives you great power, but if you let it, it will destroy you, as it almost did me.
Bruce Wayne: What stopped it?
Henri Ducard: Vengeance.
Henri Ducard: But I know the rage that drives you. That impossible anger strangling the grief, until the memory of your loved one is just... poison in your veins. And one day, you catch yourself wishing the person you loved had never existed so you'd be spared your pain.
Henri Ducard: Death does not wait for you to be ready! Death is not considerate or fair. And make no mistake: here, you face death.
Ra's al Ghul 'My wife':
Josh Pence and Liam Neeson: