The Dark Knight Variety Weblog: Dark Knight's Nolan and DC Comics Pics

[Sun_Down]

I'm starting to wonder if a Rated R Batman movie could work. I mean, it's obvious a box office risk, but characters like The Joker could have their violent natures given justice.

I still dream of a scene where The Joker beats somebody to death with a crowbar, blood spattering on his face, while he laughs hysterically the entire time.

I just don't see any studio touching an R-rated Batman script with a ten-foot pole. And it seems like only Joker would even need such freedom, and even he isn't usually that graphic.

 

[Ama Zing]

I don't think we have to worry about any violence being shorthanded in TDK. There's not going to be any R rating unless there's swearing, drug use, visible sex or onscreen gore. A bunch of recent movies like Die Hard 3 and Beowulf were PG-13 and there's PLENTY violence in them. American ratings barely mean anything these days in terms of violence.

 

[Solidus]

I don't think we have to worry about any violence being shorthanded in TDK. There's not going to be any R rating unless there's swearing, drug use, visible sex or onscreen gore. A bunch of recent movies like Die Hard 3 and Beowulf were PG-13 and there's PLENTY violence in them. American ratings barely mean anything these days in terms of violence.

You mean Die Hard 4?

You know I bought the Live Free Or Die Hard uncut recently, and honestly most would say its superficial, but adding in the 30 more f*** word, as well as the yipee ki yay line really made the movie even more enjoyable to me. It just adds back that edgy McClaine thing.

 

[Octoberist]

You mean Die Hard 4?

You know I bought the Live Free Or Die Hard uncut recently, and honestly most would say its superficial, but adding in the 30 more f*** word, as well as the yipee ki yay line really made the movie even more enjoyable to me. It just adds back that edgy McClaine thing.

The PG-13 version was a damn joke. Again, I don't understand Fox and their thinking. Yeah, it'll make money with a lower rating, but don't jeopardized the integrity of the director's original and more entertaining vision, along with the series.

 

[Ama Zing]

You mean Die Hard 4?

You know I bought the Live Free Or Die Hard uncut recently, and honestly most would say its superficial, but adding in the 30 more f*** word, as well as the yipee ki yay line really made the movie even more enjoyable to me. It just adds back that edgy McClaine thing.

Yeah, I meant Die Hard 4. With all the other threes that came out this year, I got mixed up. :/

 

[NinjaTurtleFan]

It'll be PG-13, a hard PG-13, don't be worry guys. Joker alone is scary enough to wet little kids' pants. Plus, from all the speculation, given facts, etc. it sounds like he hangs one of the Batmen, kills Loeb, kills the mayor, kills all of his guys in the bank robbery, and almost blows up the bank manager with a grenade in the mouth before the audience and the bank manager realize it's a gag-grenade spilling out gas.

 

[DeaDheaD]

This is why you shouldnt Blog on drugs.

 

[Ama Zing]

This is why you shouldnt Blog on drugs.

Agreed. Drunk blogging is much more profitable.

 

[NinjaTurtleFan]

I just don't see any studio touching an R-rated Batman script with a ten-foot pole. And it seems like only Joker would even need such freedom, and even he isn't usually that graphic.

Maybe one day we'll get our "Dark Knight Returns" with either Frank Miller, Zack Snyder, or Guillmero Del Toro or David Fincher behind it where we can see Joker being as dirty and evil as ever.

 

[DeaDheaD]

Agreed. Drunk blogging is much more profitable.

And, all around, a lot funnier.

 

[itsthebatman]

Maybe one day we'll get our "Dark Knight Returns" with either Frank Miller, Zack Snyder, or Guillmero Del Toro or David Fincher behind it where we can see Joker being as dirty and evil as ever.

Oooh, I like those names. Rodriguez and Miller though, I wouldn't trust Miller by himself.

 

[DeaDheaD]

Maybe one day we'll get our "Dark Knight Returns" with either Frank Miller, Zack Snyder, or Guillmero Del Toro or David Fincher behind it where we can see Joker being as dirty and evil as ever.

Despite what the "14 yr old Fanboy, with a web-blog said", it looks like thats what we are getting.

 

[Pennyworth]

I hate so many articles that just half a** stuff not getting all the info or quotes right. Thats news/media for you today.

I blame the advent of the "blog." More now than ever people are able to write just about whatever they please and it goes through no editors, no proofing. Then someone says they "read it online" and rumors fly...
This thing is associated with Variety so who knows, but this guy seems off base to me.

Don't get me wrong, blogs are great for expressing personal opinion, but when people start taking weblogs as "news" there is a problem.

I'm hoping for an edgy PG-13, with a out-of-his-mind Joker, complete with violence and mayhem. And from what I've seen so far, I don't expect to be disappointed.

 

[Ama Zing]

And, all around, a lot funnier.

Drunk video blogging is by far one of the greatest entertainments around.

Maybe one day we'll get our "Dark Knight Returns" with either Frank Miller, Zack Snyder, or Guillmero Del Toro or David Fincher behind it where we can see Joker being as dirty and evil as ever.

I don't really see how Joker can get dirtier or nastier than this without openly killing people in the streets with chainsaws.

 

[DeaDheaD]

I like blogs where people start crying in them.

 

[Ama Zing]

Best played during a large party, then everyone stops to figure out who's crying and the whole thing gets awkward.
I love the internet.

 

[DaRkVeNgeanCe]

I truly hope we get a "hard" pg-13 which im pretty positive we will.

 

[Infinity9999x]

Guys, I don't think we have to worry when the author said that it would be PG. I think he meant PG in a broad sense, which probably included PG-13.

Also, when he says light on violence, you have to take into account today's standards of what "violence" are. Normal violence in PG-13 movies today would have been R rated 10 to 15 years ago. Lots of violence today equals movies like Saw, where the violence is basically included just for the sake of violence. I'm sure the movie will be pg-13 and I'm sure the level of violence will be fine.

 

[escobar2248]

I'd say that this is just a piece that someone felt like they needed attention or to feel better. I doubt that he even met Nolan. Hell, all of the info from that article is basic knowledge that we all have of the film. I'm not quite sure what is meant by "pixel big"??

 

[Ama Zing]

It means we'll be able to tell if it was shopped.

 

[thejon93]

December 27, 2007

Dark Knight's Nolan and DC Comics Pics



Last weekend, I ran into youthful Dark Knight director Chris Nolan at a Christmas party in the Hollywood Hills. He was enthused about shooting entire sections of the movie in IMAX--entirely his idea. It's now possible to show the movie on some 150 IMAX screens that aren't just at science museums or in Las Vegas. He shot using IMAX cameras, which are four to five times heavier than 35 mm cameras--the first Hollywood film to do so. The opening first six minutes are being shown in front of I Am Legend in special IMAX locations. (Here's one ecstatic fan review.)


While the trailer makes the movie look pixel-big, the pic is character-driven PG, Nolan said. That way The Joker has to be really scary without resorting to real violence. The trailer is focused on creepy Heath Ledger as The Joker (played in Tim Burton's 1989 Batman by Jack Nicholson in a broadly comedic interpretation), not on district attorney Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart), who is also a key player in the movie. There are plenty of intimate scenes of people talking, as well as a few big-scale set pieces.


(This week while cruising the channels we happened upon Joel Schumacher's ridiculously over-wrought penultimate 1995 Batman Forever, starring Val Kilmer, Chris O'Donnell sporting an earring as Robin, Nicole Kidman as a sexy therapist, a hyped-up Jim Carrey as The Riddler, and Tommy Lee Jones in piles of makeup as Two-Face. Give us Christian Bale and Nolan, please!)


Speaking of DC Comics pics, it is highly unlikely that Bryan Singer will return to shoot the next Superman movie. (The director is finishing up Tom Cruise's Nazi film Valkyrie, and prepping The Mayor of Castro Street). The next Superman we will see on the big screen will not be Brandon Routh, but a younger Superman among a cast of youthful superheroes in The Justice League. That movie will likely not be shot, however, until after the WGA strike is resolved. Warners is so happy with Dark Knight that their fondest hope is that Nolan will return to do another Batman.



http://weblogs.variety.com/thompsononhollywood/2007/12/notes-chris-nol.html

What... the... hell...? PG driven my ass! What kind of sick joke is this?! The only way I'm going to believe this is if Nolan comes right out and says it to my face because this is complete bull

 

[Infinity9999x]

What... the... hell...? PG driven my ass! What kind of sick joke is this?! The only way I'm going to believe this is if Nolan comes right out and says it to my face because this is complete bull

....just to reiterate....

Guys, I don't think we have to worry when the author said that it would be PG. I think he meant PG in a broad sense, which probably included PG-13.

Also, when he says light on violence, you have to take into account today's standards of what "violence" are. Normal violence in PG-13 movies today would have been R rated 10 to 15 years ago. Lots of violence today equals movies like Saw, where the violence is basically included just for the sake of violence. I'm sure the movie will be pg-13 and I'm sure the level of violence will be fine.

 

[The Joker]

PG-13 is as high as I expected the rating for this movie to go. Batman Begins didn't exactly have any gorey or terrifying moments that were unsuitable for kids.

Nolan isn't trying to alienate the younger Batman fans.

 

[Ama Zing]

Regardless of whether or not that statement is true, I love how everyone's ignoring the 'character-driven' part of the sentence. I'd rather a character driven PG than a super violent R any day.

 

[DeaDheaD]

Best played during a large party, then everyone stops to figure out who's crying and the whole thing gets awkward.
I love the internet.

I like the ones where they start crying and then dont know how to end the blog, youtube is full of those.