No Joker in 'Batman 3'

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WHOZIT

Saturday, June 5, 2010 12:22 PM

I could have told ya that

http://www.hitfix.com/articles/2010-6-4-christopher-nolan-not-comforta
ble-with-bringing-the-joker-back-in-batman-3

AURAPTOR

Saturday, June 5, 2010 12:49 PM

How hard would it be to slap some clown make up on another actor and stick him on screen?

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CYBERSNARK

Saturday, June 5, 2010 1:59 PM

Well, on one hand, I could kinda see Alan in the role (based on his performance as Alpha in Dollhouse), but OTOH, Batman has a huge and varied rogues gallery; why would they need to bring back the Joker (especially after Ledger played it so definitively).

Bring on the Riddler, or Penguin, or Catwoman, (I'll admit that Mr. Freeze and Clayface would be kinda a stretch for Nolan's style, much as I'd like to see the Nolanverse "domino" away from reality).

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We applied the cortical electrodes but were unable to get a neural reaction from either patient.

WHOZIT

Saturday, June 5, 2010 2:47 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Cybersnark:
Well, on one hand, I could kinda see Alan in the role (based on his performance as Alpha in Dollhouse), but OTOH, Batman has a huge and varied rogues gallery; why would they need to bring back the Joker (especially after Ledger played it so definitively).

Bring on the Riddler, or Penguin, or Catwoman, (I'll admit that Mr. Freeze and Clayface would be kinda a stretch for Nolan's style, much as I'd like to see the Nolanverse "domino" away from reality).

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We applied the cortical electrodes but were unable to get a neural reaction from either patient.

Alan as the "Riddler"?

BYTEMITE

Saturday, June 5, 2010 3:52 PM

In regards to the Riddler, I humbly suggest that any day-glo lime-green leotards with a male cameltoe be thrown IMMEDIATELY in the dumpster.

PIRATENEWS

Saturday, June 5, 2010 4:13 PM

Why not use this official script for Batman 3, where Robin is the Riddler and he works for the president of the United States to commit false flag terrorism against USA, so Batman assassinates the president of USA and kills the entire White House administration?
http://www.archive.org/details/911TruthInBatmanTheDarkKnight

BYTEMITE

Saturday, June 5, 2010 4:22 PM

Ugh, Robin. Batman is one of the cooler comic book heroes, but Robin has got to be the worst sidekick ever.

LWAVES

Saturday, June 5, 2010 4:33 PM

I love the Batman Begins and Dark Knight but if Robin was brought in then I might have to seriously consider whether I'd want to watch the third one. Batman should always be a loner, it's part of who he is.

I'm glad there's no Joker. Who would really want to fill Ledger's shoes?
As stated there are plenty of other villains out there that could fit. My money is on a return by Two-Face and that he survived his fall at the end of Dark Knight.

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CYBERSNARK

Saturday, June 5, 2010 5:20 PM

Actually, I think adding Robin (eventually, after Batman has had time to establish himself [i.e., after Nolan's "trilogy"]) would be a good thing, especially with how Batman Begins focused on how Ra's Al Ghul's training made the Batman.

Remember that (despite what you might remember from the Age of Camp), Robin isn't some perpetually-cheerful fun-loving teen sidekick --he's a lost, angry, deeply-troubled, and dangerously obsessed apprentice. He sees his parents murdered, and begins to go down the same path Bruce went down (and which Bruce regrets, given how much it has cost him), so Bruce tries to save him (by "training" him while secretly undermining him to keep him out of harm's way and make him get over his loss).

Thing is, Robin doesn't want to be protected, he wants to hurt someone. This isn't the kid who goes to soda shoppes and saturday matinees; this is the kid who wakes up in the middle of the night, and attacks a punching bag until his knuckles bleed. This is the kid who pushes himself until he breaks, then keeps pushing.

Robin's quest to win Batman's approval could easily carry an entire movie. (While Batman keeps giving him useless drudge-work like watching a building's back door for seven hours, or searching through an entire filing cabinet of papers to find a credit card bill that links someone to a mob fence --meanwhile the bastard who killed his parents is still out there somewhere.)

Remember that the first Robin's career ended with him storming out of the Cave after a falling-out. It was only after doing some harsh growing up that he patched things up with Bruce and created the Nightwing identity (because, while he had come to respect Bruce, he still couldn't work with him).

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We applied the cortical electrodes but were unable to get a neural reaction from either patient.

MINCINGBEAST

Saturday, June 5, 2010 7:43 PM

Robin is boring, because teen angst is boring. Moreover, the Dark Knight isn't ready to play daddy yet.

I'd love to see an updated Riddler. Throw in some Oedipal overtones (remember how dude's trouble started in the first place), emphasize how riddles are inherently unanswerable and reveal the break down of signification, and turn the male-camel-toe up to 11. Rad!

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