Batman : The Dark Knight Blog

There has been a rather interesting development in terms of my most anticipated movie of 2008, The Dark Knight.

Speaking to The Los Angeles Times, director Christopher Nolan has revealed that The Joker won’t in fact be the key element of the story.

“The Joker, he sort of cuts through the film - he’s got no story arc, he’s just a force of nature tearing through. Heath has given an amazing performance in the role, it’s really extraordinary”, said Nolan.

Revealing the true villain, Nolan adds “Harvey Dent is a tragic figure, and his story is the backbone of this film”.

Harvey Dent, played by Aaron Eckhart, is Gotham’s District Attorney who is said to start the movie as himself, and end the movie as Two-Face.

The Joker and Two-Face however aren’t the only two villains who’ll be terrorising Gotham in The Dark Knight as Cillian Murphy will also return to continue his role as Scarecrow. “It’s a dark and complex story,” said Nolan, “and the villains are dark and complex as well.”
I’m already a tiny bit too excited about The Dark Knight and this news certainly isn’t helping my case. Will The Joker be the cause of Harvey Dent’s transformation into Two-Face? Possibly.

Either way, our favourite Dark Knight will have no shortage of villains to go up against. I can only hope the movie doesn’t suffer the same fate as Spiderman 3, where too many villains proved to be a very bad idea.

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by Michelle Graham
While everyone’s eyes are on the cackling Joker in the next Batman feature, The Dark Knight, IGN reports that Christopher Nolan, the director of Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, says perhaps we should focus our attention elsewhere. The Joker may be the most high profile of the characters in Dark Knight, and it’s easy to see why. The Joker is one of the most lasting and iconic figures of pop culture, due in large part to the portrayal by Jack Nicholson in the original Batman. However,in an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Nolan said:

“Harvey Dent is a tragic figure, and his story is the backbone of this film.”

And to fans of the comic, this makes a lot of sense. Harvey Dent (played by Aaron Eckhart) is a District Attorney for the city of Gotham, and will feature as the main villian in the next sequel, after he disintegrates into Two Face, a character last played on the big screen by Tommy Lee Jones in Batman Forever, around which time the last Batman franchise started becoming a byword for laughable. Harvey Dent himself has never really been a focus of a Batman movie, and it seems that Nolan intends to change all that, by focusing on the character before he becomes a villain and showing a more human side.

However, Nolan didn’t dismiss the Joker’s character completely whilst lauding Dent’s, he went on to say:

“The Joker, he sort of cuts through (The Dark Knight), … He’s got no story arc, he’s just a force of nature tearing through. Heath has given an amazing performance in the role, it’s really extraordinary.”

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One sequel, 101 names, and countless impatient fanboys.
by Jeff Giles | January 16, 2008
It’s been awhile since we ran a story about The Dark Knight, we know — but as proof that we’ve repented of our Bat-deficient ways, here’s a doozy of an item!

IESB, running with a report from BadTaste.it, has posted what is being described as the “complete character list” from the Batman Begins sequel. Attributed to “a very reliable source,” the list contains over 100 names — none of which will be divulged here, natch — and although it isn’t the spoiler-est of spoiler-type posts, it’s still a fun, unexpected treat.

You know what to do, Bat-fans…get to clickin’, and read up on who you can expect to see when The Dark Knight debuts on July 18!
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