Entertainment Movies Marion Cotillard Joins Anne Hathaway, Christian Bale for 'Batman 3' The Oscar winner signed for The Dark Knight Rises this weekend By Peter Mikelbank and Stephen M. Silverman Published on February 14, 2011 05:00 AM Share Tweet Pin Email Photo: INF Gotham City is about to get a French accent. Already set to star Anne Hathaway as Catwoman and Christian Bale returning as the Caped Crusader, the latest Batman movie, The Dark Knight Rises, is also welcoming a formidable femme fatale: 2008 Oscar winner Marion Cotillard. While it still remains to be seen whether the French star, 35, will play a romantic interest or a rival superhero to Hathaway’s character of Selina Kyle – also known as Catwoman – the addition of Cotillard comes as a surprise, reports Monday’s Le Parisien newspaper. Anne Hathaway to Play Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises Sources also tell PEOPLE that the La Vie en Rose Oscar winner, who is expecting a baby in April with her French actor-director beau Guillaume Canet, signed onto the Batman project Saturday in Paris. The Batman movie will also reunite Cotillard with her Inception director Christopher Nolan and costars Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Tom Hardy. Others in the cast include Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman and Gary Oldman. According to sources, Cotillard will start shooting at London’s Elstree Studios in mid-June, then move on to locations in Pittsburgh and Los Angeles this summer. Filming is expected to wrap in New York in November, with the picture’s release set for July 2012. Cotillard’s next picture is Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris, which opens this year’s Cannes Film Festival May 11 – with Cotillard expected on the red carpet. By then, Bale might also be holding an Oscar of his own: he is nominated – and the frontrunner – as Supporting Actor this year, for The Fighter.