Batman: The Dark Knight

**kingoffighters** · 15 Dec 2007, 05:23 PM

I don't know why so many doubted Ledger. He was great in Broke Back Mountain (I guess most boys are homophobic). You can see his angst and conflicting emotions and I thought he would make a great Joker if he can channel that with some insanity into Joker. Looks like he had done exactly that.

**Dyne** · 15 Dec 2007, 05:39 PM

Originally Posted by kingoffighters

I don't know why so many doubted Ledger. He was great in Broke Back Mountain (I guess most boys are homophobic). You can see his angst and conflicting emotions and I thought he would make a great Joker if he can channel that with some insanity into Joker. Looks like he had done exactly that.

exactly.

**onelocust** · 15 Dec 2007, 06:22 PM

The trailer left me very optimistic.

This looks to be such a huge story. As good as Begins was, I feel like it was all done to set everything up for this movie. All the character relationships and origins, the fact that a chunk of the city was scared into insanity... definitely all built up with this as the destination.

I can't see how another sequel could succesfully build off The Dark Knight, though, as far as excitement. Obviously the Joker is the most popular villian of Batman. Twoface is cool and all, but nowhere near as exciting and animated as the joker. If they throw in a handful of villians like Penguin, Catwoman, and so forth it will just be cluttered and diluted like Spider-man 3. I'm just thinking about where they can go after The Dark Knight without killing the momentum thats building up with the first two films.

**Nirvana** · 15 Dec 2007, 08:49 PM

IIRC, Scarecrow's actor is listed to be in TDK. I like the idea of slowly building him through Begins as a mid-boss, remake his actual insane version as the Dark Knight mid-boss, and have him fully emerge as the main villian for Batman 3 while starting the transformation of Dent into Two-Face.

**Dyne** · 16 Dec 2007, 12:43 PM

yeah with having Ledger take a somewhat more serious side for the Joker, i can totally see Cillian Murphy be one sadistic bastard if they gave him the screen time. i think the only real "wow" they could add to the 3rd film would be the intoduction of Robin. do i want that? no.