Title/Link: Ledger’s Joker a serious topic
Publication: E! Online
Date: January 24, 2008
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The Dark Knight posters ask, “Why so serious?” In the wake of Heath Ledger’s death, the answer is because the movie has a situation.
“So far everything’s been about the Joker,” says Comics2Film.com founder Rob M. Worley. “Can they continue to put the Joker’s face on this?”
While the ad campaign may be tweaked, fans’ interest won’t be affected, Worley predicts. “If anything, they want to see it more now,” he says. “There will be an almost spiritual component.”
On a legacy note, if Doctor Parnassus doesn’t recover, The Dark Knight will become Ledger’s final film. And even Worley’s not sure how he feels about that, about seeing Ledger, an actor of sensitivity who earned an Oscar nomination for Brokeback Mountain, go out on screen as a sick and sadistic villain.
Says Worley: “It’s not like On Golden Pond, where it’s this sweet sentimental sendoff that Henry Fonda had.”