Now that the The Dark Knight trailer has been making the rounds for a while, with Heath Ledger's Joker wowing everyone from fans to filmmakers, it's time for Mark Hamill to throw his opinions into the ring. If you're not a big animated series fan, this might seem weird -- what does Luke Skywalker have to do with the Joker? Well, Hamill has been the voice behind the character for years now -- most notably on Batman: The Animated Series. (Hear him in action here.) So, MTV recently caught up with the quirky Clown Prince, and he had some nice things to say about the most recent Joker incarnation."For all those fans that dreamed of an adult approach to the material, Batman Begins got nearly everything right. I have no doubt this one will be just as good or better." Unfortunately, there's no word on what he thinks the first got wrong, but he does say of Christopher Nolan's changes to the character: "The balls-out debauched psycho approach seems like a great way of reinventing everyone's favorite scary (and scar-y) clown." Ah, punning goodness!
So Hamill can't wait to see Ledger in action. Can you? Do you like the eerie way that Nolan has taken the character, and that Ledger is playing him, or are you wishing that Hamill got to make his Joker large and live-action? Or that you'd get more Jack Nicholson? Or maybe someone else?
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1-03-2008 @ 1:29PM
DT said...
What I have seen of Ledger is great! I buy it, I'm excited for it but I still wonder how the joker would have turned out if the early rumors of Crispin Glover turned out to be true. I think that could have been great as well.
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1-03-2008 @ 1:36PM
Flit said...
HL's joker seems to be the physical manifestation of the joker out of Frank Miller's Dark Knight Returns, but Nolan Changed his look to fit within the "real" world.
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1-03-2008 @ 3:10PM
DAVID F said...
Ledger's Joker looks great from what I've seen. I'll also take the excitement from Gary Oldman at Wizard World Chicago this past August when he said that Ledger's work at that point "is knocking it out of the park" That's a good sign, coming from a great director. I trust Nolan's take as it is and feel that this will be a truer representation to the comics the character comes from.
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1-03-2008 @ 4:31PM
davidwag said...
In the latest trailer, I think he sounds like he's doing a Jack Nicholson impression. Or at least an impression of Christian Slater, who always sounded like he was doing an impression of Nicholson anyway...
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1-03-2008 @ 4:39PM
Automagv said...
Hell yeah. He seems to crib from previous Jokers, but injects a hole lotta psycho into it. I love it. Homicidal, muderious, disfigured clowns, gotta love it.
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1-23-2008 @ 4:36AM
Bazzel said...
Yeah, it does look good. Pity Heath Ledger is dead.
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3-22-2008 @ 11:19AM
steve williams said...
Check Ledger's look on the Empire cover.Familiar?Suggest Alex in Clockwork Orange or even better Norman Bates , final scene Psycho.
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