Ledger's Vision For THE JOKER!

By Ronnie Adams on September 8, 2006

Heath is making the rounds up at The Toronto Film Festival and he's talking about the Joker!

He tells the Toronto Sun:

"It's definitely going to stump people. I think it'll be more along the lines of how the Joker was meant to be in the comics, darker and more sinister."

The Toronto Star's Peter Howell talked frankly with him as well:

How about playing the Joker in The Dark Knight? I have to admit, I would never have thought of you for the role.

"I wouldn't have thought of me, either. But it's obviously not going to be what Jack Nicholson did. It's going to be more nuanced and dark and more along the lines of a Clockwork Orange kind of feel. Which is, I think, what the comic book was after: less about his laugh and more about his eyes."

It seems like Heath Ledger and Chris Nolan have had some long talks about where they want to take the Joker. I think true blue Batman fans are deciding whether to touch themselves inappropriately right about now.

Source:Toronto Star