The Dark Knight
 

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Looks like it will be 2 years before we see the next one. :(

The big question right now is, who would play the Joker?

I want Crispin Glover; but who cares what I want...

Superman Returns/2006, Wonder Woman/2007, Batman 2/2008, Superman 4(?)/2009... Justice League/2014..?

DC wants their icons released a fair amount of time around each other. They think it's a better idea to released focused movies than Marvel's sloppy set-up. Marvel released alot of stuff in the last 6 years, but only a few were actually good. I like DC's plan but it's a bummer to wait so long for certain properties. How about two movies a year?

The time of the releases has little to do with the quality. If they released the Hulk Ten years from a movie either past or future, it would still have sucked as much ass.

Yeah, Crispin Glover would prolly be best for Joker.

I thought I heard the name Mark Hamil bounced around about playing the role of the Joker.

Well, he voiced him in the cartoon.

I could see it...

Mark has played both cartoon and live-action variations of the the Flash badguy, Trickster. It'd be an interesting job although I don't think Hamil's take on Mr. J would work in live action.

When I think of Glover doing Joker, I also think of Batman's new tone in films. Crispin would fit right in to the quasi-realistic world of Batman. Assuming they base it off "The Killing Joke", which they better.

Given there is going to be so much more dc movies I can see marvel releasing more x-men movies to combat it

I rather they dig in their deep pool of characters and combat quality with quantity. DC will have the movies but Marvel still has better licensing tactics (better games, TV projects, advertising). In this light, DC is Nintendo to Marvel's Sony. Quality vs. Quantity, and results already appear similar.

Mark Hamil was just a rumor and actully he isn't even among consideration. Would love to see him in it though.

LOL.

Jack Nickelson was awesome as The Joker. So was Cesar Romero. They gotta go really deep and find somebody else before they remake movies with the same villians. Didn't the television series with Adam West have guys like Egg Man and King Tut. Or go a different direction with The Animated Series and do Red Claw or Kiyodai?

I do miss Kiyodai. But I doubt they'll do a film with lesser rogues.

As retarded as he normally is, Kalyx's right. They're gonna do all his greatest hits. You need people like Two Face, the Joker, etc.

It's all about the big names on the big screen.

Yeah. Besides I...

Hey fuck you, man!

Sorry, but the blatant Nintendo fanboyism shit was pretty retarded.

I'm not a fanboy. Wii all know that...

Hey fuck you, man!

I have honestly never heard of Crispin Glover.

Who is he and where would I have seen him?

Crispin Glover:

http://www.jahsonic.com/Villain.jpg

A shot of him in Willard will send the point home.

Oh that guy. Yeah I just did'nt know his name.

Not my best work, but you get the gist.

Man, terrible job on the eyes. Didn't zoom in nearly close enough. Lousy edge finder.

rofl

I actually read that they may not even have the joker in the next batman.

Seems kinda weird after the ending of the last one, but thats what I read

Russell Crowe from Virtuosity woulda been pretty good I reckon. But now after films like Gladiator and A Beautiful Mind I see him as being too serious.

So wait, he'll be a good joker because he's already worn a pinstripe suit?

It was never a guarantee. Just because they mentioned him doesn't make him the next villain.

Last I read it was going to be Joker #2 and Two-Face #3

In which case I again vote for Guy Pearce for Two-Face

I think Jason Mewes should be the Joker. :shifty:

snoochie poochies

After all this time, we meet, BAtman. And I will have the last laugh!

BONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNG!

One word: CLAYFACE.

That is all...... even though it's technically two words mashed together.

Clayface would be an AWESOME villian to go with. But you gotta find someone pretty but strong to fit the role.

And you need some good CGI.

Also, Bane needs to be in one of these movies, so as to erase the travesty that was Batman and Robin Bane.

Think they'll use Halle Berry's Catwoman or introduce a new one altogether?

If their goal is to take the newly revived series and make it suck, they'll throw in the Berry version.

From the list that was on the website Hugo Weaving and Jude Law would both be awesome in it.


And how could can you compate dc to marvel in terms of move making.

Yeah sure Batman begins was fucking awesome but you cant compare dc who have only made 3 movies (I think and not including the old batman movies) to Marvel who has made a shitload (again the recent ones starting with Blade).

And x-man 2 and spiderman where almost as good as Batman Begins



And lol I was just looking thought the message boards and some kid said that he thought that ryan reynolds or Ashton Kutcher would be good as the new joker

More importantly, Catwoman was nowhere near "Batman Begins." That pile of shit is a tossup for worst commercially released Superhero movie in recent history. The only other movie THAT bad was Hulk.

And, lest we forget, they DID make that Batman series before Begins. The one that was so shitty (At the end), it nearly ended DC's chances of making movies.

Hence the whole "DC is like Nintendo" shit being so retarded.

Quantity aside, DC's already made their share of shit.

I was motioning more toward the revitalized comic-movie ressurgance in the late 90's onward (which Marvel's Blade lead on). Since then, respectable movies based on comics came about, picking up where Superman and Batman left off. Between that timespan... Spawn?

Both DC and Marvel began to take their movie properties very seriously with different plans. Avi Arad took a proactive role in making sure movies didn't bastardize Marvel's characters. We got Spider-Man 2, but we also got Daredevil. Then Elektra. Still, I got alot of stuff to hunt for my Marvel collection (based on films stemming from the more focused direction). DC also began to take their stuff seriously, but the plan was developed based on observing Marvel's ways. "We can release 3 films a year, or one major property a year." That philosophy is close to Nintendo's Quality vs. Quantity belief, which I always agreed with. Marvel's approach reminded me of Playstation's stigma, a mountain of titles to choose from (something they often used as advertisement) although very few were worth playing. The same pros apply as well, atleast there's a lot to work with.

Another similarity with DC Films and Nintendo is that you have to wait a while before you get good stuff.

So while you see my comparison's as fanboyism toward the Big N, I really don't have any issues showing both sides of the coin. Their are pros and cons to both distribution philosophies and I'am aware of them.

Why not just have Jack Nicholson play him again? The guy is awesome.

He's 387 years old.

Interestingly enough, though; Jack actually wrote a draft of Joker returning. He showed alot of interest in returning as him.

He was hardly an up-and-comer when he played him last time.

Anyway the guy can play parts much younger than his age when he wants to. He's hardly frail.

I'm not rankin his ability as an actor. You just need a new young Joker for a new young Batman. Bale oppisite Nickleson wouldn't mesh.

I see your point, but with the make up and all, I think Nicholson could pull off a "young" Joker.

You could always go for everybody's favourite Nicholson wannabe, Christian Slater?

If you can find him.

Isn't he in London at the moment, taking on another of Jack's roles in a stage production of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest?? I'm almost certain he is.

Slater would work, and would proibably fit better into the new Batman than Nicholson would. I don't think that style of Joker's the best way to go though.

Jude law would be awesome.

I'm not 100% but was he the "bad guy" (the guy who shot Tom Hanks) in Road to Perdition. Cos whoever that was would b awesome 2...I just can't remember if that was jude Law or not

Jim Carrey

No. If you want this movie to have any credibility, you wouldn't even mentally associate Jude Law with it. The man had like 200 movies come out in the last two years, and pretty much all of them were horrible failures. He carries too much of a stigma to believably be "The Joker" as opposed to "Jude Law in fruity makeup".

He's busy making "Jim Carrey Whores Himself to Another Shitty Script to Make Another Cheap Mil." It'll be out in 2008.


The Joker isn't so much about the look as it is the attitude and the laugh. Anyone can bear the green wig and make-up to resemble the Joker, but it takes a certain type of actor to get into that sadistic, blood-thirsty, out for blood persona, yet still be able to crack jokes.

So yeah, Ashton Kutcher, definitely. :wtf:

Jack Nicholson hardly an up and comer?! :wtf: By the time he did the first Batman, he was pretty much one of the most acclaimed actors in modern cinema. It probably did serve for him to getting noticed by our generation though.

That's what he was saying.

Jonah Nolan, the brother of Batman Begins director Chris, is writing the script this go 'round.

I don't get why they're redoing Batman with the Joker as the villan. The first batman with Micheal Keaton was good. Had that been shit yeah I understand a redo.

They're not redoing Tim Burton's Batman anymore than a comic writer is redoing an X-Men/Magneto battle because it already happened before. This is an alternate take on the Batman franchise.

If the story turns out terribly similar then...

Jonathan Nolan :wave:

His name could be Jimmy Olsen; he better do the series justice.

Oh, what the fuck, why are they changing directors? I smell failure.

They haven't changed directors, it's still Christopher Nolan.

Some pretty blurry pics of Heath Ledger in (partial?) Joker gear.

http://www.superherohype.com/news/topnews.php?id=5530

Yup looks like the joker alright. I am hoping he really plays this as a really sick, sadistic creepy Joker. Dark and menacing. i am 100% sure this film is going to be fantastic....Has Bale actually been in a bad film yet?

I seriosuly can't wait for this movie.

I'm not a huge Heath Ledger, but I like him though so I'm happy with him. Just throwing this out there even though it won't ever happen.

I would love to Mr. Freeze in future movies, but be more like Batman The animated Series Mr. Freeze which would kick all kinds of ass. Not gonna happen but I would like to see it.

Wasn't Bane in Batman and Robin played by Big Van Vader??

Nope, but he was a wrestler and wrestled as Ultimate Soultion in WCW.

He also wrestled on the indies as Jeep Swenson

American Psycho was pretty terrible.

Nah i liked that film.

You have shit taste in movies downunder.

*punches downunder in the balls*

That aside then, has Bale ever put in a bad performance?

Can't wait for this and Superman.

Superman more than anything though.

Reign of Fire was fairly ordinary

I hate you downunder, pure hate you:rant:

Reign of Fire was the dogs bollocks!

Haven't seen American Psychp, but Reign of Fire wasn't horrible.

I heart Batman

More (supposed) Joker pictures. Good quality.

This one is supposedly a concept picture or summat.
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/32380

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/32386

The look is...........interesting.

Yeah in the first he looks a little "crowish" and the concept pick is quite cool. I don't think it's a massive deal exactly how he looks. I mean we all knew he was going to have green hair and face paint, but be less cartoony than in previous incarations.

The whole deal with this new franchise is that it has a darker more realistic tone to it.

Not what I expected, but it still looked cool

I like it. Pretty creepy IMO. PLus, this is still early so I'm sure it'll get even better down the road.

The Crow's makeup was really based on a Harlequinn anyway, so it kind of makes sense. Still, even in a darker Batman movie, I hope to see the Joker a bit more tricked out than that.

Apparently the photos are fake.
http://www.superherohype.com/news/topnews.php?id=5558

Here's a quick link to the forum with the dude explaining what he did:

http://www.superherohype.com/forums/...1#post11556864

LOL

Pretty good photoshop job.

Better than any fake I've seen before for sure.

No it wasn't horrible - (I own the DVD) but it wasn't what I would call a great film.


Also LOL @ The Joker pics - that guy is a genius.

Yeah, but he just asked if Bale was in a BAD film.

Though I bet American Psycho is fucking awful.

Ok good point.

American Psycho is BAD.

American Psycho is FAR from bad

American Psycho was decent, but it lost alot in the book to movie translation.

Compared to the book (pretty much like any movie) it blew.

I don't really compare stuff to the book except in the most superficial of fashions, so no worries there,.

Jack Nicholson is the only joker in my eyes.

Cesar Romero.

American Psycho as a stand alone movie was crap, compared to the book it was truely awful.

Well i liked it so fuck you:foc:

American Psycho was good.

I loved American Psycho. Whenever I wanna get out of an awkward situation, I say, "Um.. I have to return some videotapes."

American Psycho is awesome, it's also funny

anyone like Harsh Times? I did.

It was pretty good, I thought. For a movie with zero plot it was entertaining. Seeing Bale go batshit insane (no pun intended) was great.

American psycho was awesome.

"Try getting a reservation at Dorsia now you SICK FUCK!!!" :)