The Dark Knight Joker Casting Threads [merged-30]

[ShadowBoxing]

Also I know Killing Joke is the fav around here...but I would like a arkham ayslum graphic novel inspired joker

 

[Maxwell Smart]

Screw Killing Joke. The Joker having an origin was done very thoroughly(sp?) in B89. This time he needs to be a total enigma. He is much more frightening that way.

 

[ShadowBoxing]

Screw Killing Joke. The Joker having an origin was done very thoroughly(sp?) in B89. This time he needs to be a total enigma. He is much more frightening that way.

Interesting take actually...that was the way Batman TAS did it and it worked fairly well (eventually they went back and explored the origin in Mask of the Phantasm and a future episode). However he needs some introduction...not necessarily an origin, but an introduction. I heard there would be some surprise cameos in arkham in Begin...so perhaps we'll know more about where they are going with the next villians by then

also watch the langauge

 

[Maxwell Smart]

Interesting take actually...that was the way Batman TAS did it and it worked fairly well (eventually they went back and explored the origin in Mask of the Phantasm and a future episode). However he needs some introduction...not necessarily an origin, but an introduction. I heard there would be some surprise cameos in arkham in Begin...so perhaps we'll know more about where they are going with the next villians by then

also watch the langauge

Um......watch what language?

 

[ShadowBoxing]

Um......watch what language?

nevermind

 

[P. Cushing]

Dafoe damnit!

 

[Batty for Bats!]

All this talk about origin... tisk tisk.

Spoiler

Reading the script and everyone mentioning it, isn't Joker just going to be there? I mean, if the movie ends with Gordon showing Batman the clown card, wouldn't Joker have already been "made"? That means that there were no origins, we just start the movie?.......
Or is the card just some taunt to the cops by a crazed comedian who likes to rob convience stores and gets a thrill out of it.. just because type thing.

 

[GL1]

What happend to the Benicio option?

 

[spdrknight]

All this talk about origin... tisk tisk.

Spoiler

Reading the script and everyone mentioning it, isn't Joker just going to be there? I mean, if the movie ends with Gordon showing Batman the clown card, wouldn't Joker have already been "made"? That means that there were no origins, we just start the movie?.......
Or is the card just some taunt to the cops by a crazed comedian who likes to rob convience stores and gets a thrill out of it.. just because type thing.

They may have changed things from that version of the script... so we could not get that tease.

 

[Daniel_Lioneye]

Benicio Del Toro, nothing against the others, but I think he can top even Nicholson if given the chance.

 

[Detective Flass]

The poll was made before Del Toro's popularity.

 

[P. Cushing]

DAFOE for JOKER

 

[Detective Flass]

ROTH for JOKER

 

[P. Cushing]

LAW for JOKER

 

[ComicBookGuyT]

We have to truat Nolon, all this bickering we do probably won't change his mind.

On another note...

Roth, Del Toro, or Dafoe as Joker, those are the one's I'm pulling for.

 

[KingOfDreams]

My first choice would be Willem DeFoe, but of all the people in the poll, I'm going to have to choose Tim Roth. I think he has all the elements to be a good Joker. Most of the other choices I liked only have one element...the look. These being Steve Bushemi and maybe Jude Law. Crispin Glover and Jim Carrey (Lemony Snicket showed me he could be that type of character) might be able to pull of the look and the characterizations, though.

 

[Detective Flass]

Thanks for choosing Roth, you get a complamentary gift basket whenever you support Roth. Thanks for joining the campaign!

 

[P. Cushing]

My first choice would be Willem Dafoe

You have wisdom for one who has lived but one lifetime (of course, I'm just assuming that you've only lived one lifetime).

 

[Detective Flass]

Here are some upcoming films that Tim Roth is doing that are mysetery/horror oriented that can really show off his dark side.

Dark Water (2005)

Plot: A mother and daughter, still wounded from a bitter custody dispute, hole up in a run-down apartment building. Adding further drama to their plight, they are targeted by the ghost of former resident.

Sounds pretty good.


The Death of Harry Tobin (2006)

Plot: Neve Campbell plays a young woman in an isolated community on an English Island who, after witnessing a horrific murder as a young child writes to the mainland. Tim Roth plays a disturbed detective who comes to investigate the crime, whilst Nick Nolte plays the pillar off the community.

 

[Detective Flass]

TIM ROTH

 

[lujho]

I want Joker young and vital. Full of raw energy. An actual great comedic actor.

Sam Rockwell has long been one of my quite a few possible candidates. After seeing Hitch Hiker's Guide (in which his character isn't anything like Joker at all), he's still on the list.

Sam Rockwell: He rocks, well. Not saying he's my first choice, I don't really have one.

I love how everyone choose someone based on looks and acting ability and is certain they'd be perfect, yet for all they know they quite simply may not be able to "get" the character, to do it right.

The only way to know for sure is to see actual auditions from all these possible candidates. I think the character would be extremely hard to get right in a live-action film.

 

[The Question]

1.the look:the joker should look like not a guy in makeup, but an albino with a green dye job and lipstick. he should wear the purple suit, but it should be aq little dirty and torn in some places

2.the origin:killing joke origin all the way

3.the character:he should act like a silly clown/not funny but thinks he is relative while doing things like murdering and cripleing people for his own amusement. his jokes in the context of what he's doing should be really disturbing. his gang, if he has one, should be a cross between the people that followed charles manson around and the jokerz from batman beyond

4.the actor:alan cummings. he can play goofy and serious quite well. pluss, he kinda looks like the joker

 

[P. Cushing]

DICK E GRANT for THE JOKER.

 

[Rynan]

I'll first say this, I don't think Dafoe should be cast as the Joker. Not that I think he's a bad actor or anything, but I just think that people will think that Batman is stepping on Spider-man's success by hiring Defoe, the guy who played the Norman Osborn/Green Goblin(and will probably be returning in Spider-man 3). Just one of those should we or shouldn't kinda moments.

Second, I'm pro not seeing the Joker's origin. Have him come out of left field at Batman, just like Batman's been going to the crooks. The crooks don't know where Batman came from, so it should seem fair Batman doesn't know squat about this new deadly opponent. Kinda neat that way.

Also, I think opinions about the way the Joker should act are moot, for we all have opinions about he should act, but they all will be tossed aside when we see him on screen and hear his meniacal laughter.

And what's with lipstick, green hair dye, and dirty suits? Can we toss Uber-realism to the wayside, Please. If the Joker just became an Albino after his lil' accident, there whouldn't be much of a catlyst now whould there. I like the idea that he is a clown looking freak and, like how Two-Face has his scarring or Mr. Freeze can't live outside sub-zero temperatures, it shouldn't be meddled with in an effort to make it "beliveable".

 

[Detective Flass]

Albino Joker? Hell No!

Depp and Roth are tied!!! Roth Supporters Unite!