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Figured you non UK people wouldn't have read this so here I am being a nice limey and typing it up for you. Not a huge amount of new stuff, but some interesting bits imo.
'The Dark Knight - July 25'
Most years, a surfeit of sequels and remakes on a release slate provides an often justifiable cue for pundits to bemoan Hollywood's fear of originality. Yet we defy even the most jaded commentator to sniff dismissively at The Dark Knight. After all, look at what Nolan's Batman rethink did with the superhero genre - rooting out all the realism he could, yanking the action down into the gutter, focusing on character rather than spectacle. And now he's going to do all that - with The Joker.
Of course, Heath Ledger's scuzzed, punked and psycho'd-up take on The Joker (dealt with in depth last issue) isn't the only reason we should be drooling with anticipation for The Dark Knight's July encore. In addition to the introduction of bike-tank the Batpod (pictured above - fyi it's the latest Batpod photo released btw), the casting of Maggie Gyllenhaal as Rachel and the slick design of the new Batsuit, we also have a second Nolanised bad guy: Aaron Eckhart as Harvey Dent, who will be making his acid-drenched transformation into schizoid nutter Two-Face before the credits roll.
"It's pretty common knowledge that Two-Face is a character that starts out as a guy called Harvey Dent," says producer Charles Roven. "At the end of Batman Begins, the DA ws killed, and so in the time between Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, they elected a new DA. and that guy is Harvey Dent. He's reputed to be the white knight of the city, having made his name going after corrupt cops. And yes, at some point in our story, Dent will meet his fate."
The hows and whys and precisely-what-will-he-looks-likes of the transformation are being kept under wraps. "He is hurting," says Eckhart himself when Empire visits the movie's Chicago set, "I think he has a lot of anger and resentment." But that's as much as he'll give away. "How I look as Two-Face is going to be a surprise. But, from what I've seen, I think you're going to be really happy, I was!"
Pedigree: Chris Nolan has brought back all of Batman Begins' key cast members (except Katie Holmes), Newbies Heath Ledger and Aaron Eckhart only amp the quality.
Est. budget: $150 million
Predicted box office:
$300 million (US gross),
$450 million (worldwide).
Daftest rumour: That Phillip Seymour Hoffman, James Gandolfini or Bob Hoskins was cast as The Penguin - a character Nolan dislikes.
In a word... Psychotic
enjoy
'The Dark Knight - July 25'
Most years, a surfeit of sequels and remakes on a release slate provides an often justifiable cue for pundits to bemoan Hollywood's fear of originality. Yet we defy even the most jaded commentator to sniff dismissively at The Dark Knight. After all, look at what Nolan's Batman rethink did with the superhero genre - rooting out all the realism he could, yanking the action down into the gutter, focusing on character rather than spectacle. And now he's going to do all that - with The Joker.
Of course, Heath Ledger's scuzzed, punked and psycho'd-up take on The Joker (dealt with in depth last issue) isn't the only reason we should be drooling with anticipation for The Dark Knight's July encore. In addition to the introduction of bike-tank the Batpod (pictured above - fyi it's the latest Batpod photo released btw), the casting of Maggie Gyllenhaal as Rachel and the slick design of the new Batsuit, we also have a second Nolanised bad guy: Aaron Eckhart as Harvey Dent, who will be making his acid-drenched transformation into schizoid nutter Two-Face before the credits roll.
"It's pretty common knowledge that Two-Face is a character that starts out as a guy called Harvey Dent," says producer Charles Roven. "At the end of Batman Begins, the DA ws killed, and so in the time between Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, they elected a new DA. and that guy is Harvey Dent. He's reputed to be the white knight of the city, having made his name going after corrupt cops. And yes, at some point in our story, Dent will meet his fate."
The hows and whys and precisely-what-will-he-looks-likes of the transformation are being kept under wraps. "He is hurting," says Eckhart himself when Empire visits the movie's Chicago set, "I think he has a lot of anger and resentment." But that's as much as he'll give away. "How I look as Two-Face is going to be a surprise. But, from what I've seen, I think you're going to be really happy, I was!"
Pedigree: Chris Nolan has brought back all of Batman Begins' key cast members (except Katie Holmes), Newbies Heath Ledger and Aaron Eckhart only amp the quality.
Est. budget: $150 million
Predicted box office:
$300 million (US gross),
$450 million (worldwide).
Daftest rumour: That Phillip Seymour Hoffman, James Gandolfini or Bob Hoskins was cast as The Penguin - a character Nolan dislikes.
In a word... Psychotic
enjoy
