A taste for the theatrical: Joker spotted

by Tironius, created Tuesday, July 17, 2007, with permalink

The Joker, played by Heath Ledger in the upcoming Batman sequel, The Dark Knight (IMDb), is set to overtake Jack Nickleson’s as the best portrayal of the villain, proving again my theory that the British(1) make better Batman films. 1. Yeah, yeah, he’s Australian. All that matters is that he talks “funny.”

Picture, from Filmwad. The recon photographer is quoted:

The scenes we saw them film involved the Semi truck….the joker was inside the truck huntched down holding onto a hand-rail. The go one way on wacker and the Tumbler comes from the other direction. The camera car filmes between them. We saw this over and over a few times. I have video but you cannot see the joker in the video, all you see is the truck. So its not worth posting right now. • … As far as the Joker suit goes, it’s apparantly a very dark purple, contrary to earlier reports. Above all, Ledger comes across as creepy as the Joker should. Things are looking up indeed!