The Dark Knight

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[Pozer]

is mac just straight up invisible to some ppl?

[cron]

i apologize

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They're in good company on the side of evil
Heath Ledger and Aaron Eckhart join a line of high-profile actors who battle Batman.
By Geoff Boucher, Los Angeles Times

HEATH LEDGER and Aaron Eckhart, welcome to Hollywood's elite and gaudy Arkham club.

In the highly anticipated new Batman film "The Dark Knight," which opens July 18, Ledger is stepping into the purple suit of the Joker, while Eckhart will portray Gotham City Dist. Atty. Harvey Dent, who starts the movie as a handsome lawman but ends up as Two-Face, the villain driven insane by disfiguring wounds.

"Harvey Dent is a tragic figure, and his story is the backbone of this film," says Christopher Nolan, the director of the acclaimed franchise-rejuvenating 2005 film "Batman Begins," who returns with Christian Bale again playing the caped crusader. "The Joker, he sort of cuts through the film -- he's got no story arc, he's just a force of nature tearing through. Heath has given an amazing performance in the role, it's really extraordinary."

Ledger and Eckhart will be joined in "Dark Knight" by "Batman" veteran Cillian Murphy, who reprises his role as the Scarecrow.

There's a long and colorful screen history of Gotham bad guys who all seem to die violently or end up imprisoned (if only briefly) in the bleak towers of Arkham Asylum. The scenery-chewing roles -- as well as some staggering paydays -- have attracted a gallery of Hollywood's biggest names, including four Oscar winners (Jack Nicholson, Tommy Lee Jones, Jack Palance, Christopher Walken) and half a dozen Oscar nominees (Michelle Pfeiffer, Liam Neeson, Jim Carrey, Uma Thurman, Ken Watanabe, Danny DeVito) and, um, one frosty-looking governor (Arnold Schwarzenegger).

Don't expect a lot laughs in this summer's return to the cave. "It's a dark and complex story," Nolan said, "and the villains are dark and complex as well."

[picolas]

Jim Carrey was oscar-nommed? imdb says no.

[polkablues]

Jim Carrey was oscar-nommed? imdb says no.

He wasn't.  Just sloppy journalism.

[Fernando]

six minute prologue (crappy quality)

I just saw that before I am Legend, and wow it looked awesome in the imax theater, everyone wanted to see that instead of Legend.

It's safe to say Heath Ledger will be the best Joker ever.

[Stefen]

Man, with Heath Ledger dying, this movie just lost alot of it's luster for me. Too sad.

[w/o horse]

There's no fucking way I could go see the movie now and consider him a bad guy in any way.  Like project negative feelings we reserve for bad guys.  It'd have to be down the road I could accept it because right now I'm semi-defensive at the thought.

[Stefen]

SPOILERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!




















The worst part is that The Joker was coming back for the 3rd movie. Now they'll either to reshoot somehow or recast The Joker for the last part of the trilogy, which sucks.

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according to AICN...

There's a lot of rumors swirling around right now in regards to Heath and where his involvement with THE DARK KNIGHT was. I got it confirmed from a source involved in Post-Production on THE DARK KNIGHT. Heath's post work was complete. He had indeed finished it, as to not interfere with the production of the film he was doing with Gilliam. We're now working to find out what's going to happen there. The last known photo of Heath was as a clown in that film. Will Terry re-cast? What will happen? We'll try to find out for all of you. But there will be no-dubbing on Heath in THE DARK KNIGHT - his performance was finished.

[polkablues]

Not to seem crass, but I'm calling the posthumous Best Supporting Actor award right here and now.

[picolas]

i bet they'll edit the movie to make Batman look like the bad guy now.

[edison]

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[ElPandaRoyal]

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Damn, some people really have nothing to do. Like me, except I can't do something like this.