This must be happening because of all the traction they're getting out of the obviously false Batman rumors that have been coming, one after another, on the web.
Whatever you do, DON'T believe this one. EW itself is debunking this horse@#%*! in the very article they are spreading it in:
This from EW...
"Does that sound real enough to start a casting rumor? Feels like it to me. After all, was there any more than that to go on when people started talking about Tim Robbins in Iron Man 2, Eddie Murphy as the Riddler in Batman 3, or Rachel Weisz as Catwoman in the same?"
Send your hate mail to EW now.