Nolan Says "No" To The Joker
In his interview with Empire Magazine, Christopher Nolan, director of Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, unhesitatingly stated that the Joker will not be in Batman 3 or any other subsequent Batman film while he is at the helm of the Bats. He stated, “I just don’t feel comfortable talking about it.” … I think they forgot to put a big, “WAAAAAAA!” at the end of his statement. Cry me a river Nolan.
.. First of all… It’s ridiculous that Joker isn’t going to be in any of the future Batman movies. WTH!? Just because Nolan lost a friend, that we all loved and cherished and exalted over his performance as the Joker in Dark Knight, he now feels bad about putting in another Joker??? Well, what about us Batman loving fans who are expected to now fork over goddamn $15 per ticket that’s ultimately going to be in an overpriced 3D format?? No Joker?? Gimme a break.
Get over it Nolan. This isn’t about you and your feelings and your… “I miss Heath and it would be dishonorable blah blah blah, yaddy yaddy yaddy…” Give me a friggin’ break. It’s THE JOKER MAN!! This isn’t about you and it’s certainly not about honoring Heath either. It’s about putting together a believable movie about The Goddamn Batman which includes plausible story lines that involve Bats’ rogue gallery, including the Joker, in an enjoyable, tense, dark and wicked superhero movie that will entertain the living shit out of all of us. You don’t get it… Joker never dies, NEVER! (… Kingdom Come aside)
The Joker gives Batman meaning… “completes” Bats. What’s Nolan going to give us? Are we going to see Mad Hatter, or maybe… Calendar Man? ooooo, that’s a supervillain if I’ve ever seen one. What about, Penguin or…… I know!!!… How about THE VENTRILOQUIST?! You know.. the psycho guy with the sock puppet that shoots better than most Army Rangers?
The Ventriloquist!... Oh Boy!
There are plenty of ways that Joker could be depicted.. I can’t think of any right now, but I’m also not incentivized with a million bucks pointed at me. All I care about is that I’M NOT GOING TO SEE THE JOKER and I, and every geek out there who’s reading this post, deserves to see better. It’s like… like back in high school where a girl breaks up with a boy and tells ALLLLL of her girlfriends, “I’m done with him! I’m never seeing him again… but none of you can see him either!” What, just because his heart’s broken he now has the audacity to inject his wallowing pity and sorrow into my Batman film? And everyone just rolls over and doesn’t say anything in honor of Heath.
Yeah, we love Heath. Yeah Heath nailed the Joker. And yeah, nobody can fill his shoes, but life goes on. We’ve had like… what… four different Batmen? And two Supermen so far, with a third on his way? let’s get real, life goes on and when Nolan is well on his way to filming some other film five years down the road, we’ll look back and think, “GODDAMNIT, we should have been given the Joker instead of the Ventriliquist or Penguin or Riddler or even Calendar Man!
Regarding Superman, Nolan went on to say,
“…What it is, while David Goyer and myself were putting together the story for another Batman film a few years ago, you know thrashing out where we might move on from the Dark Knight, we got stuck. We were just sitting there idly chatting and he said ”by the way, I think know how you approach Superman”.. and he told me his take on it.
I thought it was really tremendous. It was the first time I’ve been able to conceive of how you’d address Superman in a modern context I thought it was a really exciting idea. What you have to remember about Batman and Superman is that what makes them the best superhero characters there are, the most beloved after all this time, is the essence of who they were when they were created, when they were first developed. You can’t move too far away from that.”
…. This better be good! I don’t want to see anymore Gay Undies Calvin Klein Superman model in skivies up on my silver screen damnit!
Honor the goddamn comic universe Nolan! And get over your self pity.
Till then… guess it’s just more pizza, Warcraft and strippers! Yeah baby!!