Poor Michael Caine—ever since he seemed to confirm the Johnny Depp-Riddler rumors, the poor guy has been out of the loop with everything these days!

In an interview with MTV (nearly a year ago with the same interviewer with which the deed was done), Caine realizes that he can’t trust the newspaper these days:

“We talked about Johnny Depp and all that, which is in the paper! We trusted the newspapers, and I got into so much trouble. They said, ‘Johnny Depp’s not in it. Philip Seymour Hoffman’s not in it. There’s no script, there’s nothing.’ They said, ‘Why did you say that?’ I said, ‘Because the reporter I was talking to had the newspaper, and it said it in the newspaper, and I thought you’d announced that.’ So they said, ‘Shut up.’”

Despite supposedly being on a no-tell limit, Caine was still able to provide some insight into the burning Johnny Depp-Riddler question (albeit, not that uplifting):

“There is nobody, there’s no script, there’s nothing. It can’t possibly be made before 2011 because Inception is such a big picture. [They] won’t tell me anything because I said this before… Johnny Depp is great in anything, but there is no Johnny Depp in this Batman. They tell me in no uncertain terms.”