{"id":32447,"date":"2015-11-09T18:25:15","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T01:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/?p=32447"},"modified":"2019-03-06T15:30:34","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T23:30:34","slug":"mariah-carey-cast-in-the-lego-batman-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/mariah-carey-cast-in-the-lego-batman-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariah Carey Will Be in The LEGO Batman Movie, But Not As Who You Think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s true, <strong>Mariah Carey<\/strong> will be in <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/hitlist.asp?theme=Batman&amp;id=EN-407186506\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The LEGO Batman Movie<\/a>,<\/strong><\/em> the spin-off from the immensely popular <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/hitlist.asp?theme=LEGO+Movie&amp;id=EN-407186506\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LEGO Movie<\/a>!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>But she won&#8217;t be playing Commissioner Gordon, as previously rumored.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, she&#8217;ll be taking on the role of mayor to the crime-riddled city of Gotham. This will be her first return to movies since 2013, where she was last seen in Lee Daniels&#8217; <em>The Butler.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>She joins an already star-studded cast, including: Will Arnett (Batman), Ralph Fiennes (Alfred), Rosario Dawson (Batgirl), Michael Cera (Robin), and Zach Galifianakis (the Joker).<\/p>\n<p>The film is being directed by Chris McKay with a script by author-screenwriter Seth Grahame-Smith (<em>Pride and Prejudice and Zombies<\/em>). It&#8217;s set to hit theaters on February 10, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of Mariah Carey as Gotham&#8217;s mayor? Will there be singing involved? Let us know your thoughts in the comments!<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/heat-vision\/mariah-carey-joins-lego-batman-838356\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s true, Mariah Carey will be in The LEGO Batman Movie, the spin-off from the immensely popular LEGO Movie! But she won&#8217;t be playing Commissioner Gordon, as previously rumored. Instead, she&#8217;ll be taking on the role of mayor to the crime-riddled city of Gotham. This will be her first return to movies since 2013, where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,108,388,558],"tags":[118,3145,112,217,3498,3497],"yst_prominent_words":[5950,27113,8998,6677,27112,27111,27114,5885],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32447"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32447"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64521,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32447\/revisions\/64521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32447"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=32447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}