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Dark Knight

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Found this pre-release bit of an interview with Heath Ledger. Nice bit of information about how he formed the character.

When asked by MTV about the experience, Ledger said, ?It?s the most fun I?ve had with a character and probably will ever have.? Ledger went on to say, ?It was an exhausting process. At the end of the day I couldn?t move. I couldn?t talk. I was absolutely wrecked.?

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Ledger said that his Joker is intended to scare the audience and cited Stanley Kubrick?s A Clockwork Orange (1971) as an early influence on his performance. Ledger told MTV, ?(The Joker) has zero empathy.?

In preparation for the role made famous by Academy Award-winner [COLOR=darkgreen ! important]Jack Nicholson[/COLOR] in Tim Burton?s 1989 Batman, Ledger told IESB:

??for the Joker I locked myself away in a hotel room for six weeks. I just formulated a voice and a posture and found a real psychology behind the Joker. I really put a lot of work into it. And the experience also on a production scale, by the way, is obviously a completely different shoot. Batman is just such a machine. It's huge and I've never worked on anything that big.?

Does Ledger worry about comparisons to Nicholson? He told IESB:

?I was a big fan of Jack Nicholson - still am - his portrayal of the Joker was perfect for Tim Burton's world and if Tim Burton had come to me and he was doing the sequel and he asked me to play the Joker in his movie, I wouldn't do it. I couldn't. Because you couldn't touch what Jack Nicholson did.?
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Wow. pretty interesting. I knew how he got into the role of The Joker and how he locked himself in the hotel room. Just the thought of this role could have played a part in his death is just heart wrenching.
 
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JOHNNY DEPP LINED UP TO PLAY THE RIDDLER IN NEXT BATMAN FILM

Depp is no stranger to odd characters. He played Willy Wonka, Edward Scissorhands and used to knob Kate Moss, but there's another fine piece of casting in the wings. The Penguin (last played by Danny DeVito – and looking more like a dead dinner lady than a super-villain) is going to be played by Philip Seymour Hoffman, so goes the rumour.
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Anybody hear anything about this?
 
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Yes, and it disappoints me. The cast of the next film is rumored to have Depp, Angelina Jolie (Catwoman), and Phillip Seymour Hoffman (Penguin). I'd love to see Hoffman, but Depp and Jolie are going to be bigger than the movie. I hate when what the cast does in its free time is bigger than the movie itself, especially when the movie is following something as intense as The Dark Knight.

I'm also afraid that it'll just be Captain Jack Sparrow in a Batman movie. I can't see anything other than Captain Jack in Depp's roles anymore.. sad, because he's really a terrific actor.

Fortunately, I don't think Nolan will do the Penguin. Unfortunately, the Penguin is the only character that's rumored to be played by someone I think would be great in a Batman film.
 
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Nolan was under contract for two Batman films, Bale is under contract for a third. But I wouldn't be surprised if Nolan did a third. I'm hoping he does, he's my favorite director.

Just don't give it to Joel Schumacher. :(

Frank Miller and Zach Snyder want to do Dark Knight Returns. That would be interesting..
 
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I swear if jolie is in the next one, it's going down the tubes and I will not go to see it. Well I won't go that far as to not seeing it, but it definitely won't be as good as the past 2
 
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If they're smart, they'll put it out two weeks before Christmas.

I work at a DVD store.. I'll post the date when it becomes available. Late November is what I've been hearing. But I think they're going to keep it in theaters for as long as possible. Wouldn't surprise me if it didn't get released until January.
 
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