Batman carries on beginning in ... The Dark Knight

if they're smart and going for the most psychologically interesting characters the third movie will feature Clayface

or THE OUTSIDER
http://www.dccomics.com/media/covers/7255_400x600.jpg

Whoa, that's really sad. I can't believe Ledger was only 28(!)... I figured he was close to 40 by the looks of him.

Comment from Morgan Freeman [from BBC Heath Ledger tribute page)

"I worked on the same film and I never met him - we were never on the same set. This is as much news to me as anybody and it affects me in the same way"

This really surprised me, but probly not to many movie buff ilxors I guess. So do cast and crews not get together these days and celebrate the final cuts etc?

I'm sure they were both invited to various celebratory events, but maybe they were too busy/jaded to attend.

heath ledger vs. ryan phillipe vs. hayden christiansen
who can tell the dif?

remy, you def seem like a nice guy, but this is of a piece w/ yr maintaining 10% of all films you see are "great."

As opposed to the 90% that aren't? Sounds like a reasonable breakdown to me!

"great" means for the all-time canon, Ned

Oh, right.

HAVE A GREEEEAT DAY!

"great" means for the all-time canon, Ned

Your universe, it is strange and wondrous to me.

I'm curious on a hypothetical level how selling/releasing/watching Heath Ledger play a cartoon homicidal nihilist would play out if his death was a suicide, but I'm really really really glad that it looks like that's not the case.

film dudes suck

I remember reading somewhere that Michael Caine was only on set for 3 days or something. I imagine Freeman, who probably had no fight scenes (but maybe some gadget fx stuff) either, wasn't needed much more than that.

I was thinking "great" as in "large".

Yeah, like "Hey - Great tits!".

Not "Your tits are for the all-time canon!".

morgan freeman is totally gay and i never realized this. i have no gaydar.

titty canon

PEW PEW PEW

I wonder what'll happen to Joker in the possible future Batman films? Will they hire someone else to pay him, or will they stop using the character out of respect for Ledger? (Not that I think such respect is necessary.)

http://www.poster.net/crow-the/crow-the-city-of-angels-regular-us-3700084.jpg

Oh, I didn't even know there was a Crow sequel!

There were a few.

Not sure what you mean Tuomas, do you mean future batman films made by the current director? I guess as per what they usually do they'll just never refer to the other villains again, unfortunately. Maybe not?

If you mean future batman films way down the line then yeah I'm sure they'll still cast someone as the joker, batman wouldn't be the same without him.

Does Chris Nolan dress that nattily for work everyday, or only when he knows the press will be there to take his photo?

I thought you meant the initial photo at first and was all "Talk about getting into the mindset"

Will Tuomas approve?
In a political context this would politely be called an “unintended consequence.” (Gotham as Baghdad, anyone?) Mr. Nolan doesn’t deny the overtones. “As we looked through the comics, there was this fascinating idea that Batman’s presence in Gotham actually attracts criminals to Gotham, attracts lunacy,” he said. “When you’re dealing with questionable notions like people taking the law into their own hands, you have to really ask, where does that lead? That’s what makes the character so dark, because he expresses a vengeful desire.”

somehow I doubt it

http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/9632/jokesea7.gif

crap, they're changing the character so he can shoot fireballs from his forehead?

i am outraged

I got a phone call from Jim Gordon yesterday.
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y298/hukl/dknight3.jpg

no green hair eh

super-villain hair dye bro

I'm loving the viral campaign that they are running for the movie

http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/firstshowing/darkknightposter-fullbig.jpg

@ Superman--

It's Chris Nolan's thing that he wears a suit to the set every day. There's probably something about it on his wikipedia page.

it's sam raimi's thing. unless it's both their things? besuited superhero directors?

For gods sake never let Brian dePalma direct a superhero movie (or did he and did I mercifully forget)?

what makes you say that? (I don't think he has)

Actually Phantom of the Paradise kinda counts, sorta, and that's a good film. That gets him off the hook. (I've been rereading The Devil's Candy and remembering why he annoys me most of the time.)

great book!

Oh, FANTASTIC book, no question. First read it a couple of years after the events and now at a distance so much of it feels simultaneously just-yesterday and from a weird alien world.

Phantom is good I just wish the music was better. which is odd considering all the other great sdtk work Paul Williams did.

cool poster

shakey?

hahahahahahahahaha

Eckhart speaks a bit (some spoilerish stuff in the story, be warned):

"That's right, people don't really know yet," actor Aaron Eckhart said with grin. "I can tell you that, basically, when you look at Two-Face, you should get sick to your stomach. Being the guy under all that, well, that was a lot of fun for me. It's like you would feel if you met someone whose face had pretty much been ripped off or burned off with acid. I can't talk about it beyond that because I don't want to give away too much of the plans by Chris."

...

In the comic books, the wounds come from a splash of acid thrown at the attorney by a gangster on the witness stand, but there are hints that in this film it might be the Joker who is responsible for the scars.

Eckhart won't discuss that, but he did say that the wounds are structurally deeper than in the comics: "There are fans on the Internet who have done artist's versions of what they think it will look like, and I can tell you this: They're thinking small; Chris is going way farther than people think."

isn't there meant to be a new trailer online today?

This is the new trailer, I think.

I don't know. Still looks good. But The Joker looks less sinister and imposing in this one. Maybe it's unfair to compare it to the first trailer.