Christopher Nolan has been out on the streets of Chicago filming his second Batman movie, The Dark Knight. In fact, he’s apparently shooting scenes with Heath Ledger as The Joker, and various scoopers are chiming in from all over the web with the word on what sort of makeup job they’re going with for Heath’s transformation into the clown prince of crime.
Batman On Film says he’ll have “gray skin with scarring”, and his costume will be ragged. He’ll look more scary than clownish. That make sense, it’s in keeping with Nolan’s slightly more realistic approach to the Batman world. Dip your face in acid and you’ll be horribly scarred, you won’t come out with smooth, perfectly white skin. Still, I think I’m going to miss the old, more clown-like Joker. Realism can be such a drag sometimes.
It would help to have a picture, and Superherohype has one. Well sort of. They have some extremely blurry snapshots of what appears to be a guy in green hair wearing a purple suit. They say that’s Heath Ledger, and I believe them. But they’re so fuzzy it’s impossible to tell how accurate BOF’s description is. Looking through all the Vaseline they smeared on their camera lens before snapping the pic, his suit certainly doesn’t seem ragged and there’s really nothing realistic about green hair. But it’s impossible to tell what they’ve done with his skin. See their pictures here.
So will this be the over the top Joker we know, or will he simply be a very badly burned serial killer? I can tell you with absolute certainty that I have no idea.
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This isnt right... you can easily see extreme streaks of blond still in his hair, even with the blurs... these are either fakes or this is his stunt double or stand in... theres no way thats him... my vote is its a fake or not him at all...
omg people are so curious they wanna make up stories so u realy dont know if thats him or not.but im a realy big fan of heath and you know what it doesn't matter what he looks like it matters how he acts so i realy dont care if it doesnt look like him or even if he looks bad the important thing is, is that he acts it out right.
sarra it does actually matter how good he looks because if im not wrong joker is the main bad guy of batman so in saying that yes he should look good, i must agree with you in that it also does matter how well he acts him out and hopefully he does a good job and is really evil, also hope that he gets the laugh righ.
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Christopher Nolan has been out on the streets of Chicago filming his second Batman movie, The Dark Knight. In fact, he’s apparently shooting scenes with Heath Ledger as The Joker, and various scoopers are chiming in from all over the web with the word on what sort of makeup job they’re going with for Heath’s transformation into the clown prince of crime.
April 20th, 2007 at 13:30
This isnt right... you can easily see extreme streaks of blond still in his hair, even with the blurs... these are either fakes or this is his stunt double or stand in... theres no way thats him... my vote is its a fake or not him at all...