Batman carries on beginning in ... The Dark Knight

i'm still kinda irked that billy dee williams never got to play two-face.

billy dee was hella smart and put in his contract that if someone else got to play harvey dent as two-face they'd have to pay him off.

I wonder if they have to pay him EVERY time somebody else plays Dent! Maybe he's making money off this movie! That would be totally fucking awesome.

^^

Well, damn.

Damn.

All we'll ever get is a short taste of what Ledger would have been like.

I'm certain it will still be released.

isn't it already done filming?

yeah, principle photography and all was finished. the release won't likely be affected much.

still, just so sad.

I think that's all we were ever going to get, anyway. If that makes you feel any better. It seems like the emotional meat of the movie is going to be Harvey Dent turning into Darth Vader, with Joker as macguffin what keeps things moving.

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

or THE OUTSIDER
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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.
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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.)