Well, damn.
Damn.
All we'll ever get is a short taste of what Ledger would have been like.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 23:17 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm certain it will still be released.
― chap, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 23:18 (sixteen years ago) link
isn't it already done filming?
― Simon H., Tuesday, 22 January 2008 23:18 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah, principle photography and all was finished. the release won't likely be affected much.
still, just so sad.
― latebloomer, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 23:19 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Dr. Superman, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 23:20 (sixteen years ago) link
if they're smart and going for the most psychologically interesting characters the third movie will feature Clayface
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 23:23 (sixteen years ago) link
or THE OUTSIDER http://www.dccomics.com/media/covers/7255_400x600.jpg
― Dr. Superman, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 23:26 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Sparkle Motion, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 23:27 (sixteen years ago) link
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?
― Ste, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 15:04 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm sure they were both invited to various celebratory events, but maybe they were too busy/jaded to attend.
― Alba, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 15:28 (sixteen years ago) link
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."
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 15:42 (sixteen years ago) link
As opposed to the 90% that aren't? Sounds like a reasonable breakdown to me!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 15:46 (sixteen years ago) link
"great" means for the all-time canon, Ned
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 15:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh, right.
― Alba, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 15:51 (sixteen years ago) link
HAVE A GREEEEAT DAY!
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 15:54 (sixteen years ago) link
Your universe, it is strange and wondrous to me.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 16:02 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― da croupier, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 16:03 (sixteen years ago) link
film dudes suck
― DG, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 16:03 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Dr. Superman, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 21:26 (sixteen years ago) link
I was thinking "great" as in "large".
― HI DERE, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 21:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, like "Hey - Great tits!".
Not "Your tits are for the all-time canon!".
― Alba, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 21:31 (sixteen years ago) link
morgan freeman is totally gay and i never realized this. i have no gaydar.
― chaki, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 21:32 (sixteen years ago) link
titty canon
― elmo argonaut, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 21:32 (sixteen years ago) link
PEW PEW PEW
― Laurel, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 21:39 (sixteen years ago) link
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.)
― Tuomas, Thursday, 24 January 2008 08:25 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.poster.net/crow-the/crow-the-city-of-angels-regular-us-3700084.jpg
― Cosmo Vitelli, Thursday, 24 January 2008 09:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh, I didn't even know there was a Crow sequel!
― Tuomas, Thursday, 24 January 2008 09:51 (sixteen years ago) link
There were a few.
― Stone Monkey, Thursday, 24 January 2008 11:25 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Ste, Thursday, 24 January 2008 11:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Does Chris Nolan dress that nattily for work everyday, or only when he knows the press will be there to take his photo?
― Dr. Superman, Tuesday, 11 March 2008 18:22 (sixteen years ago) link
I thought you meant the initial photo at first and was all "Talk about getting into the mindset"
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 11 March 2008 18:25 (sixteen years ago) link
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.”
― Dr. Superman, Tuesday, 11 March 2008 18:48 (sixteen years ago) link
somehow I doubt it
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 11 March 2008 18:49 (sixteen years ago) link
http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/9632/jokesea7.gif
― carne asada, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 21:41 (sixteen years ago) link
crap, they're changing the character so he can shoot fireballs from his forehead?
― latebloomer, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 22:52 (sixteen years ago) link
i am outraged
― latebloomer, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 22:56 (sixteen years ago) link
I got a phone call from Jim Gordon yesterday. http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y298/hukl/dknight3.jpg
― Dr. Superman, Friday, 4 April 2008 21:03 (sixteen years ago) link
no green hair eh
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 4 April 2008 21:04 (sixteen years ago) link
super-villain hair dye bro
― DG, Friday, 4 April 2008 23:19 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm loving the viral campaign that they are running for the movie
― youcangoyourownway, Friday, 4 April 2008 23:52 (sixteen years ago) link
http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/firstshowing/darkknightposter-fullbig.jpg
― Alba, Friday, 25 April 2008 21:46 (sixteen years ago) link
@ 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.
― antexit, Friday, 25 April 2008 22:11 (sixteen years ago) link
it's sam raimi's thing. unless it's both their things? besuited superhero directors?
― s1ocki, Friday, 25 April 2008 22:28 (sixteen years ago) link
For gods sake never let Brian dePalma direct a superhero movie (or did he and did I mercifully forget)?
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 25 April 2008 22:31 (sixteen years ago) link
what makes you say that? (I don't think he has)
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 25 April 2008 22:37 (sixteen years ago) link
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.)
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 25 April 2008 22:57 (sixteen years ago) link
great book!
― s1ocki, Friday, 25 April 2008 23:31 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 25 April 2008 23:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Phantom is good I just wish the music was better. which is odd considering all the other great sdtk work Paul Williams did.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Saturday, 26 April 2008 00:09 (sixteen years ago) link
cool poster
― latebloomer, Saturday, 26 April 2008 17:48 (sixteen years ago) link