This time out, there's no vat of chemicals to explain how Batman's greatest enemy came to be the twisted sociopath known as the Joker.
Director Christopher Nolan said there will be no changes to the film or marketing of "The Dark Knight."
Heath Ledger's Joker springs full-blown in this summer's "The Dark Knight," the sequel to 2005's "Batman Begins" that was previewed for theater owners Thursday with a clip showing the new movie's opening sequence.
Unlike 1989's "Batman," in which the deranged, disfigured clown appearance of Jack Nicholson's Joker resulted from a dip in chemical goo, "The Dark Knight" starts right in with the bad guy in all his psychopathic glory.
"I believe whatever doesn't kill you simply makes you stranger," Ledger's depraved Joker cryptically tells an accomplice in the opening scenes, in which he pulls off a daring bank robbery.
In an interview at ShoWest, a theater-owners convention where distributor Warner Bros. showed off footage of "The Dark Knight" and the rest of its summer lineup, director Christopher Nolan said it was almost inevitable that the sequel would pit Christian Bale's Batman against the Joker.
"The psychopathic clown, that's an icon to stand with the guy with the ears and cape," Nolan said. "It's just a wonderful visual relationship, and it's a terrifying image."
Long before Ledger's death of an accidental prescription drug overdose in January, the marketing of the movie had focused on the villain's rise to power and his creepy appearance.
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Post by: ShinamoriAoshi on March 19, 2008, 06:57:34 PM
i wonder how they're going to film the movie now....
Title: Re: Crew honors Ledger by not distorting Joker
Post by: tkoold on March 20, 2008, 06:36:12 AM
Yeah i heard the preview for the movie was out of this world and that the actor for joker was magnificient but now hes dead...
Title: Re: Crew honors Ledger by not distorting Joker
Post by: kinjo on March 20, 2008, 11:12:18 AM
the filming is over, now they are doing hte special effects and editing
Title: Re: Crew honors Ledger by not distorting Joker
Post by: ShinamoriAoshi on March 20, 2008, 06:36:30 PM
cool, they need to put a chocobo in that
Title: Re: Crew honors Ledger by not distorting Joker
Post by: Wesker on March 21, 2008, 12:07:08 PM
it's in post-production--editing, sound mixing, dialogue re-recording, etc.
Title: Re: Crew honors Ledger by not distorting Joker
Post by: kinjo on March 21, 2008, 03:04:01 PM