Forgive me if someone else has already posted this.
Here.
Wow.
Saw it before the Iron Man movie yesterday. Looked great! I was surprised at how well Heath Ledger played the part.
Ho-Lee Crap.
I’ve been flip-flopping between whether I’m more excited over this or Indiana Jones. That trailer may have been enough to swing me back to The Dark Knight.
Excuse my ignorance, but is this a remake of the Michael Keaton/Jack Nicholson Batman/Joker movie, or a whole new plot? The trailer has similar elements. Looks great though. I always wondered why they used the Harvey Dent character in the first movie but never introduced Two-Face as a villian.
It’s a whole new ballgame. They were planning on using Ledger in the third movie, but that idea has had to be scrapped since his death. IMHO, Batman Begins is the Batman flick, it having taken the others into a back alley, smashed their faces in and told them that if they ever came around again, they’d find themselves drawn, quartered, and ground into fertilizer.
I do, however, have to wonder what’s up with the Google ads here.
Harvey Dent wasn’t in Batman Begins.
But if you’re referring to the Keaton/Kilmer/Clooney Batman movies, Two-Face was in Batman Forever (played by Tommy Lee Jones after Billy Dee Williams played Dent in the first Batman).
If you pause the shot of Harvey Holding the gun, you can see the scarring along his profile. Two Face is definatly in this movie, although hopefully he wont be to The Dark Knight as Venom was to Spider-Man 3.
Also, can I be the first to say;
For the Next Batman, to replace Ledger?
Joseph Gordon Levitt.
I was, and you are correct, obviously. I was thinking of BDW’s Dent, and forgot the TLJ part.
SLIGHT Hijack too,but i was just thinking today…
out of all the movie Batmen so far, who would you like to see in a version of the Dark Knight Returns?
Kilmer’s let himelf go something rotten, so I reckon give Clooney the gig; sans nipples, of course. I’m deadly serious.
I like the sick take on Joker. Ledger appears to be playing him as a serious psychotic, not a campy comic book villain, but a realistically deranged individual.
Looks okay. I’m of the mind that Batman Begins only had slightly more to do with Batman than Burton’s movies, which isn’t much, but it was a pretty entertaining movie in spite of that.
Visually, I think that Ledger’s Joker is an interesting take, but I think that what we hear of his voice in the trailers sounds awful. Sounds too pedestrian for the Joker, to me.
Of course I’ll be there opening night regardless.
I was initially in agreement with shy guy about Ledger being chosen for the role, particularly when the “crumbling bat logo” teaser debuted some time ago and we heard his voice for the first time … without seeing him onscreen in full makeup and costume, I was even more concerned that they’d made a terrible casting choice. I couldn’t have been more wrong. The sickly, diseased delivery of his lines in the trailers make my skin crawl. And that laugh! Fantastic.
I can’t even tell it’s him. The reports of the role utterly consuming him were clearly not unfounded, and it’s at least my personal belief his disappearance into the character had more than a little bit to do with the circumstances surrounding his passing. They say he was getting no sleep and suffering all manner of ill effects from constantly working so hard on the character. Some have suggested that his general lifestyle and health took a turn for the worse, and he began to take medications just to curb his anxiety and exhaustion. Reports from the set even stated he showed up some days in full makeup and costume when he wasn’t scheduled to film, just so he could stay in character and probably even spook people a little. It clearly paid off. Every other Batman film has had A-list stars playing up their typical shtick, but Heath actually added something new to this character, which is no small feat considering all the iterations the character has seen over the years. Nicholson wasn’t playing Joker, he was just being “Jack” … much like Carrey as Riddler was just playing up his best stereotypes. It would be unfair to say that previous Bat villains were bad performances (okay, Tommy Lee Jones and Arnold Schwarzenegger were exceptions), but most of these stars weren’t pushing their limits to become a terrifying force of nature that leaps off the comic book page onto the screen. The only actor that I think did a halfway decent job in that regard was DeVito in Burton’s second film. Heath has absolutely raised the bar and trumped them all.
As tragic as the circumstances around his passing were, I know that his final performance will be his greatest, and a fitting capstone to his tragically brief career. As a guy, I have to admit that his heartthrob status was always a bit of a crutch for me when it came to taking him seriously, but I’m already absolutely convinced he’s set the new benchmark for comic book villains on film. My only real hope is that the character does not get killed off. Batman without Joker is like cookies without milk! 
It looks like they decided on a changed look of Gotham. Now it looks like New York instead of some clusterf*ck of impossible architecture.
Chicago, actually.
That’s another thing I forgot to mention … this movie is going to be right up there in the great pantheon of Chicago films, even though it’s supposed to be Gotham. That big shootout they have in the trailer is North LaSalle Street, the primary thoroughfare into the business district, leading up to the Chicago Board of Trade building that the Joker stands in front of as Batman whips around him on that motorcycle. I watched the filming along the Chicago River all up and down Lower Wacker last July, and even worked a job in the Renaissance Hotel adjacent to the sets when the crew was prepping all the vehicles, including all five of the Tumbler models. I was really surprised at how small they actually are. Not nearly as big as they seem on film.
I think it’s pretty clear that Joker doesn’t get killed off, because they were looking at having him back in the third film. Or so I’ve heard.
Which makes Ledger’s passing all the more tragic.
Damn that sounds petty, to measure a man by the loss of a role
Not at all. I was trying to say the same thing. I think you’d be hard pressed to find a fan that wouldn’t have wanted Ledger to return in the third. Whoever replaces him in the role is going to have some very large shoes to fill, both metaphorically and literally … the Joker wears some big shoes. 
I always wished they’d have been cast as brothers in something.
I think this sorta counts.
And maybe Gordon Levitt could play the Riddler. 
Crispin Glover would have made a good Joker. Creepy, nutty, psychotic, unhinged.
I could just picture him with the Joker makeup on.
I never liked him. Not saying he wouldn’t make a good Joker, I just never cared for the guy. Maybe they’ll do somebody new, like …hell. Most of the villains either wouldn’t translate well or have already been badly done.