I have gotten my hands on the completely uncovered image, and it is the Joker, Heath Ledger, in full face paint. I have to say it is an intriguing shot, one that definitely strays from the image delivered by Jack Nicholson in Tim Burton's 1989 film, the Cesar Romero version of the "WHAM! BAM" Adam West series, and the Mark Hamill voiced animated version from Batman: The Animated Series.
So, to save you the trouble of searching for the image, here it is:
I don't know about you, but that is a pretty eerie image. It appears, based solely on this image, that this will likely be the cruelest imagining of the Joker yet to reach the moving image. I cannot wait until next summer when this film takes flight and reaches the big screen.
Batman Begins was an eye opener of what a Batman movie could be, and I have a lot of faith in Christopher Nolan to continue this series down the right track. The casting has been interesting, as I was not sure about Ledger. I think he is decent actor, but did not seem right for this role. This image is going a long way towards dissuading that notion. Likewise, the addition of Eric Roberts is a little worrisome as I have never really cared for his performances, though I believe he will be able to pull off a gangster convincingly.
Anyway, there you have it. The word is getting out, be ready for the arrival of The Dark Knight (and I hope that title sticks)!
Article comments
— go to most recent comments1 - High Heels
Very funny! Thanks for the laugh.
2 - Chris Beaumont
What was funny?
3 - High Heels
You didn't find the politician revealed as a horrific joker funny? I did.
And yes, the joker is disturbing-looking.
4 - Ken Edwards
The Dark Knight would work well. The name goes with the Jeph Loeb/Tim Sale graphic novels.
5 - Nik
Ehh, I dunno, I don't really see the need for a "Crow"/"Saw"-style Joker. The design is a little too "realistic" looking for my tastes... Goth Joker?
6 - Sterfish
This is exactly what I was hoping to see. I can't wait to see this movie.
7 - JC Mosquito
Yuck..... too disturbing for my old school comic book tastes.
8 - Phillip Winn
It looks like the email piece is missing now, you need only visit the site and click to reveal the full Joker image.
Which looks great. I'm excited already! July 2008? Sigh.
9 - sigit
i'm right it's got ichi the killer inffluence the japanise movie ... it's a very scary joker i love it can't wait 4 the movie
10 - Carl
Well the "I believe in Harvey Dent Too" site is now down. In it's place is "Page Not Found". When selected it says "HA HA HA" all the way through.
11 - Chris Beaumont
Now that's pretty cool. I like this marketing.... Hopefully the movie will pay off on the promise of Begins.
12 - Jared
If you highlight the entire page now, it mostly displays "Ha Ha Ha" over and over again.
However, if you copy/paste the text and remove all the h's and a's, you get "See You In December"
13 - Nevar530
The new Joker image is perfect. Crow/Saw style? I don't see that what I see is a disfigured Man. It pushes the image of the joker from being a man with clown makup on to the chemically disfigured arch villian that the Dark Knight needs. For anyone who is too scared of a reallistic version of batman go watch Arnie or Jim batman movies, you know the ones with bad acting Glowing rave-style images, not the Dark moody Gothic, like the Art / Architecture, Stylized Batman 1 or Batman Begins. I feel that the direction of the films matches Batman from the comics. The other films looked like old Adam West Batman.
14 - n
i love it! even though it is a rip off of ichi the killer, im gonna let them have this one, cause thats perfect for the joker
15 - Nick Koshy
The 'I believe in Harvey Dent too' cracked me up. The Joker image is disturbing. As it is, it is tough to wait for next year to watch 'The Dark Knight'.
16 - Will
I still believe it's too early to really say if I like The Joker's Look or not. I love the way Nolan has taken Batman back to the darkside b/c I feel that's what Batman's all about. I said the same about Scarecrow in begins but he turned out friggin awesome. I'm tooo excited about this movie.
17 - D
For those of you who don't know already, Harvey Dent is Batman's nemesis Two-face in the comics.
18 - JoKeR
I really like the new realistic approach that Christopher Noland is going with on this Joker. He did a fantastic job on the villans in Batman Begins, and i bet he will do a fantastic job on the Joker in this film as well.
19 - Extra on Set
I've been working as an extra on set here in Chicago and a funny story was told to me by one of the casting assistants. It was late (6:30am) and he was going through a revolving door with his head down and as he came out he saw Heath's (The Jokers) shoes. He looked up and he was right there in his face with full makeup. He said 'you can imagine the shock of it all if you know what he looks like". The best movie I've ever worked on as an extra hands down so far.
20 - sajen
its great what they are doing with the joker, no offense to nicholson(who also was brilliant), but bi think that heath will open so many doors. with his performance, never doubt chris nolan, THE BEST MOVIE OF 2008!!!!!!
21 - Keith The Bandit
I beleive that Heath Ledger will make a great Joker as nobody has really seen him play an evil chracter before. I had my doubts for some of the cast members but Christopher Nolan knows what he is doing, he won't just hire anybody to play these type of characters. I beleive The Dark Knight will be the best film of 2008 because I beleive in Chris Nolan.
Keith The Bandit
22 - sajen
Well like Keith says believe in Chris Nolan, i have my doubts about Eric Roberts but he might just pull it off, it will be extremely facsinating to witness the origin of The Joker, and the dimise of Harvey Dent.
23 - RYAN v
YALL HAVE GOT TO GO TO THE IBELIEVEINHARVEYDENTTOO.COM SITE NOW!!!!!!
I WENT THERE TO SEE THE FACE CHANGE OF HARVEY DENT AND I DIDN'T FEEL LIKE WAITING, I CAME BACK TO THIS PAGE TO READ MORE AND THEN I WENT BACK TO THE HARVEY DENT PAGE AND WHOA.....IT CHANGED........CREEPED ME OUT MAN!!!!!!
24 - brad
this is old news, joker was revealed 2 years ago after the showing of batman begins. Thats not what the joker is going to look like. He looks like a young jack nicholson. I've seen the real pictures.
25 - Chris Beaumont
Sure you have.... He wasn't cast until 2006 and the design wasn't done until this year.