Joker confrimed for Batman Begins sequel.

[Chimera]

I'd like to see the Joker (and only the Joker) as the villain of the next movie. I don't want the new franchise to fall into the same multi-villain stupidity that the first one did. Just the Joker.

I'd love to see Harvey Dent play a prominent role in this movie. Not Two-Face. Just Harvey. Set him up as someone we care about when he is struck by tragedy in the next movie.

I agree completely. The worst part of the Batman franchise, other than the plots, acting, etc, etc, was that they just kept adding Villains for no apparent reason.

Nothing will kill this franchise faster than pointlessly attempting to fill out every possible Batman Villain and NPC position in just a couple of movies.

That being said, I wouldn't mind seeing Harlene Quinzel as an Arkham Psychiatrist (a serious role, without hint of later turn, please) and/or Harvey Dent in his pre-Two-Face role.

 

[Klaus]

It's pretty much a given that they have to establish Harvey Dent as a respectable man before chronicling his downfall. And seeing as though the position of District Attorney is vacant...

 

[The Serge]

Well, they still need to do Harvey Dent right. One of the things I've never liked about some portrayals of his origin is that some writers don't make it clear that there's something wrong with him at some point well before his decent into total madness. I also hope that when he does take the dive that it's not a sudden thing. There's no drama in him getting acid thrown into his face and suddenly going nuts. There needs to be a deeper root to his psychosis, like abuse or something else that had been eating away at him for years and needed that last event to throw him over the edge. Some of these things must be hinted in the second movie.

 

[mhacdebhandia]

Hopefully they don't go as far as the "Big Bad Harv" take from the animated series, because that was one of the only missteps they ever made with that show.

 

[Lord Pendragon]

There's no drama in him getting acid thrown into his face and suddenly going nuts. There needs to be a deeper root to his psychosis, like abuse or something else that had been eating away at him for years and needed that last event to throw him over the edge.

I disagree. I like the idea of a good man broken by one act of horror. It adds tragedy to the figure. It gives Batman a reason to regret whoopin' on him when the need presents itself.

If he was on the road to whacko from the beginning, it robs the character of a lot of sympathy, IMO.

 

[Barendd Nobeard]

Please note that the quotation from Michael Caine said simply, "the Joker [movie]"--it did not say "the Batman sequel."

Could it be that "the Joker [movie] = "the Catwoman movie" (at least at a conceptual level)?

I'm just sayin'.

 

[Lord Pendragon]

Could it be that "the Joker [movie] = "the Catwoman movie" (at least at a conceptual level)?

Unless the Joker was a far more integral part of the Catwoman mythos than I've been led to believe, I doubt it.

 

[Taelorn76]

Unless the Joker was a far more integral part of the Catwoman mythos than I've been led to believe, I doubt it.

I think barennd nobeard was implying a solo Joker movie with no Batman, like Catwoman. not that there was a connection between both characters.

edit: BN also could have meant that Catwoman movie was a joke

 

[Lord Pendragon]

I think barennd nobeard was implying a solo Joker movie with no Batman, like Catwoman. not that there was a connection between both characters.

Ah. My bad.

Though in that light, I doubt it. I imagine they'd try out the character in a tried-and-true formula, then see how things go from there. They weren't writing Magneto or Wolverine movies until after those parts had been cast and accepted by the viewing public. I imagine that a Joker movie would be the same. Should the actor they cast be widely accepted, then they might consider a spinoff movie, but not before.

edit: BN also could have meant that Catwoman movie was a joke

HA!

 

[Klaus]

The only way I could see a Joker movie is in a slasher-flick vein, akin to Halloween and It. But I'd rather keep Joker where he belongs: as the antithesis of the Batman.