Picture of The Joker

[Lady of Winterfell]

Yahoo has posted a picture of Heath Ledger as The Joker. Check it out:

Heath Ledger Photos - Yahoo! Movies

And they have a slideshow with some pictures from production:

Yahoo! Movies Slideshow - The Dark Knight

Enjoy!

[Connavar]

Why isnt his hair green....


The face look alright.

If they ruin the Joker, then the movie is dead. You cant ruin Batman's nemesis and get away with it.

[Lady of Winterfell]

Guess we'll just have to wait and see. I wondered when I heard they had cast Heath Ledger as the joker how he would do. I just don't see him as the villian type.

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At least he looks spooky in a batman kind of way. I'd suggest even more makeup though.

[Talysia]

Originally Posted by Connavar of Rigante

Why isnt his hair green....


The face look alright.

If they ruin the Joker, then the movie is dead. You cant ruin Batman's nemesis and get away with it.

I wondered about his hair myself. Still, the face does seem to fit. I'll be intrigued to see how he acts the role of the Joker. Thanks for posting the pic, Lady of Winterfell!

[Lenny]

The hair is green...

Look closely at the one of him sat in the cell, and you can see the beginnings of green, and then if you go through the slideshow you'll see a picture of Hedger, and the reflection of the Joker in a piece of glass, complete with green hair.

[ScottSF]

these look better than some of the first shots I saw. He does have green in his hair but yeah, you can see the brown color. I hope they do computer touch-ups and use lighting to the best advantage to keep him creepy. Same with the new bat costume. I know Bale is happy that he can move his head but I don't like some of the shots I've seen. I really like how they're not gonna spend much/ if any time on Joker origins. He's going to be a mystery.

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That's not green. That's yellowish-green.

compare with this PHOTOSHOPPED image.

[Connavar]

Exactly its not totally green.

Joker is suppose to be have bright green hair.

Shouldnt be hard to make his hair green.


His acting will be important of course, he have to do looney very well.

[Culhwch]

Originally Posted by ScottSF

I really like how they're not gonna spend much/ if any time on Joker origins. He's going to be a mystery.

I hear that the backstory is going to be a major feature - in fact, that thread is going to be released as a teaser short before I Am Legend in Imax.

I think Ledger looks good as the Joker. I don't mind if he doesn't look exactly like he did in the comics - I figure that OTT look is fine in cartoonish colour, but a bit odd on film. Witness The Phantom, for instance. I like the grim realism Nolan is shooting for.

[Culhwch]

Just to add the link I was talking about above:

TDK Teaser info

[Connavar]

Originally Posted by Culhwch

I hear that the backstory is going to be a major feature - in fact, that thread is going to be released as a teaser short before I Am Legend in Imax.

I think Ledger looks good as the Joker. I don't mind if he doesn't look exactly like he did in the comics - I figure that OTT look is fine in cartoonish colour, but a bit odd on film. Witness The Phantom, for instance. I like the grim realism Nolan is shooting for.

Grim realism is perfectly fine with darkish looking Batman but not with Joker.

His thing is too be very cartoony look and everything plus the dangerous looney thing.

[KateWalker]

Looks like he lost some weight for the role. That's good because Joker is quite thin. He's growing on me.

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That's good because Joker is quite thin. He's growing on me.

You have a Joker growing on you?
Symbiosis, one of nature's marvels.

[j. d. worthington]

Originally Posted by Connavar of Rigante

Grim realism is perfectly fine with darkish looking Batman but not with Joker.

His thing is too be very cartoony look and everything plus the dangerous looney thing.

Can't quite agree with you, Connavar. One of the origins of the Joker is in the old silent film, The Man Who Laughs, with Conrad Veidt (a film I highly recommend, by the way), and that risus sardonicus was anything but cartoonish, yet extremely effective. Handled rightly -- as it looks like they did here -- this much-less-cartoonish appearance of the Joker could actually be a great advantage, allowing him to be much more genuinely unpredictable and menacing....