The thing about new comic books starring the Caped Crusader is that you never really know when the next Dark Knight Returns or Long Halloween will come around. And while Batman: White Knight certainly did impress us out of the gate, one can never be too sure if that level of quality will continue. Fortunately, not only have the first three issues been solid gold, but it looks like writer/artist Sean Gordon Murphy is most assuredly in the process of crafting the next timeless classic.
Now, there has been the obvious drawing point that is a reformed Joker running for public office and taking down Batman within the parameters of the law, but this series’ take on Harley Quinn has also turned more than a few heads. In short, Murphy has interpreted the Clown Princess of Crime as being two different people: The classic, jester-suited version that we’ve...
Now, there has been the obvious drawing point that is a reformed Joker running for public office and taking down Batman within the parameters of the law, but this series’ take on Harley Quinn has also turned more than a few heads. In short, Murphy has interpreted the Clown Princess of Crime as being two different people: The classic, jester-suited version that we’ve...
- 12/7/2017
- by Eric Joseph
- We Got This Covered
So far, Batman: White Knight has captured the attention of readers everywhere, and understandably so (you can check out our review of the first issue here). Not only does it reexamine the effect that the Caped Crusader has on Gotham City as a whole, but it also sees the Joker seemingly cured of his insanity and running for public office. Really, you never know when the next Dark Knight Returns or Long Halloween might come around – but this may very well be it.
As writer/artist Sean Gordon Murphy continues to explore whatever storytelling possibilities that a cured Joker might yield, it’ll obviously provide us with many talking points. Heck, we won’t soon forget how many heads turned when Warner Bros. gave him the green light to use the name of Jack Napier, which you may remember was previously likened to Jack Nicholson’s version of the...
As writer/artist Sean Gordon Murphy continues to explore whatever storytelling possibilities that a cured Joker might yield, it’ll obviously provide us with many talking points. Heck, we won’t soon forget how many heads turned when Warner Bros. gave him the green light to use the name of Jack Napier, which you may remember was previously likened to Jack Nicholson’s version of the...
- 10/16/2017
- by Eric Joseph
- We Got This Covered
Writing and Art by Sean Murphy | Published by DC Comics
The world of comics has long been filled with different versions of Batman. He is basically the Madonna of comics reinventing himself for each new generation from Adam West’s campy portrayal to Frank Millers’ Dark Knight to Christopher Nolan’s Batman in the real world. Comics have also been filled with infamous Elseworld versions of the character like Gotham by Gaslight and more recently DC’s mega-event Dark Night’s Metal.
I am not sure what it says about our current culture but the recent trend is to take the Caped Crusader and turn him evil. Metal has been filled with some twisted versions of the character and now Batman: White Knight flips the iconic rivalry of Batman and Joker on its head. Showing that old dogs can infact learn new tricks.
Comic creator Sean Murphy has been...
The world of comics has long been filled with different versions of Batman. He is basically the Madonna of comics reinventing himself for each new generation from Adam West’s campy portrayal to Frank Millers’ Dark Knight to Christopher Nolan’s Batman in the real world. Comics have also been filled with infamous Elseworld versions of the character like Gotham by Gaslight and more recently DC’s mega-event Dark Night’s Metal.
I am not sure what it says about our current culture but the recent trend is to take the Caped Crusader and turn him evil. Metal has been filled with some twisted versions of the character and now Batman: White Knight flips the iconic rivalry of Batman and Joker on its head. Showing that old dogs can infact learn new tricks.
Comic creator Sean Murphy has been...
- 10/6/2017
- by Dan Clark
- Nerdly
This review contains minor spoilers.
When the news of Sean Gordon Murphy’s Batman: White Knight dropped, it sounded like an intriguing premise. I mean, who wouldn’t want to see the Joker righting his wrongs for a limited series? Well, I don’t think it’s that simple, because I have a sneaky suspicion that Murphy’s pulling the ultimate red herring and this will go down as the Joker’s biggest scheme yet.
Batman: White Knight #1 opens up with the Batmobile roaring into Arkham Asylum. However, it isn’t the Bat that steps out of the car, but Jack Napier, Aka the Joker. The guards lead him to the cells, where the Dark Knight is chained and locked away. Jack looks at him and says, “Batman. I need your help.”
The rest of the issue is set a year before the Arkham event. It follows Batman, Nightwing, and...
When the news of Sean Gordon Murphy’s Batman: White Knight dropped, it sounded like an intriguing premise. I mean, who wouldn’t want to see the Joker righting his wrongs for a limited series? Well, I don’t think it’s that simple, because I have a sneaky suspicion that Murphy’s pulling the ultimate red herring and this will go down as the Joker’s biggest scheme yet.
Batman: White Knight #1 opens up with the Batmobile roaring into Arkham Asylum. However, it isn’t the Bat that steps out of the car, but Jack Napier, Aka the Joker. The guards lead him to the cells, where the Dark Knight is chained and locked away. Jack looks at him and says, “Batman. I need your help.”
The rest of the issue is set a year before the Arkham event. It follows Batman, Nightwing, and...
- 10/4/2017
- by Sergio Pereira
- We Got This Covered
Mike Cecchini Aug 23, 2017
The Dceu is developing a Joker movie with Martin Scorsese involved, and possibly without Jared Leto.
Virtually every single detail about this story is a little crazy, so stick with it. Warner Bros. is developing a solo movie for The Joker, Batman's greatest villain. This shouldn't be too surprising. The Joker is arguably the greatest villain in all of comics, and he's as iconic and as big a potential box office draw as his pointy-headed arch enemy. The idea of Warner Bros. making a Joker movie would be less a case of "wow, that's crazy" and rather "what took them so long" if it wasn't for the approach and the people involved.
Todd Phillips (The Hangover, War Dogs) will direct, and co-write a script with Scott Silver (8 Mile, The Fighter). Fair enough. But this is where things get really interesting. Martin Scorsese is producing. And if...
The Dceu is developing a Joker movie with Martin Scorsese involved, and possibly without Jared Leto.
Virtually every single detail about this story is a little crazy, so stick with it. Warner Bros. is developing a solo movie for The Joker, Batman's greatest villain. This shouldn't be too surprising. The Joker is arguably the greatest villain in all of comics, and he's as iconic and as big a potential box office draw as his pointy-headed arch enemy. The idea of Warner Bros. making a Joker movie would be less a case of "wow, that's crazy" and rather "what took them so long" if it wasn't for the approach and the people involved.
Todd Phillips (The Hangover, War Dogs) will direct, and co-write a script with Scott Silver (8 Mile, The Fighter). Fair enough. But this is where things get really interesting. Martin Scorsese is producing. And if...
- 8/23/2017
- Den of Geek
The new comic book project, Batman: White Knight from writer/artist Sean Gordon Murphy will offer Batman fans a very different depiction of The Joker.
Murphy took to social media to reveal that one big change to his version of The Joker will be that the character has the real name Jack Napier. That name might sound very familiar, because that is the name of the gangster who eventually became The Joker played by Jack Nicholson in Tim Burton's 1989 Batman movie.
Murphy dropped that revelation on Twitter:
Big news: Jack Napier will be the name of my Joker. Warner just approved--1st time Napier has been in a comic (minus Burton adaptations). pic.twitter.com/u4YwZLMmGL
— Sean Gordon Murphy (@Sean_G_Murphy) August 17, 2017
In Burton's 1989 Batman movie, Jack Napier is an intimidating enforcer for mob boss Carl Grissom. When Napier leads a burglary of the Axis Chemicals plant,...
Murphy took to social media to reveal that one big change to his version of The Joker will be that the character has the real name Jack Napier. That name might sound very familiar, because that is the name of the gangster who eventually became The Joker played by Jack Nicholson in Tim Burton's 1989 Batman movie.
Murphy dropped that revelation on Twitter:
Big news: Jack Napier will be the name of my Joker. Warner just approved--1st time Napier has been in a comic (minus Burton adaptations). pic.twitter.com/u4YwZLMmGL
— Sean Gordon Murphy (@Sean_G_Murphy) August 17, 2017
In Burton's 1989 Batman movie, Jack Napier is an intimidating enforcer for mob boss Carl Grissom. When Napier leads a burglary of the Axis Chemicals plant,...
- 8/18/2017
- by Kristian Odland
- GeekTyrant
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Not long ago, the Batfan community saw its collective jaw hit the floor when DC officially announced Sean Gordon Murphy’s Batman: White Knight. Now, the uninitiated may wonder what’s so special about yet another miniseries featuring the Caped Crusader, but once you hear that it involves the Joker seemingly going straight and opting to take down the Batman within the parameters of the law, well, you’ll likely be singing the same tune as the rest of us. And by the way, the former Clown Prince of Crime will be doing it as a politician.
What also got our attention is that the writer/artist is giving the Joker an actual name: Jack. Immediately, this likely caused each of us to recall Tim Burton’s 1989 Batman movie in which Jack Nicholson...
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Not long ago, the Batfan community saw its collective jaw hit the floor when DC officially announced Sean Gordon Murphy’s Batman: White Knight. Now, the uninitiated may wonder what’s so special about yet another miniseries featuring the Caped Crusader, but once you hear that it involves the Joker seemingly going straight and opting to take down the Batman within the parameters of the law, well, you’ll likely be singing the same tune as the rest of us. And by the way, the former Clown Prince of Crime will be doing it as a politician.
What also got our attention is that the writer/artist is giving the Joker an actual name: Jack. Immediately, this likely caused each of us to recall Tim Burton’s 1989 Batman movie in which Jack Nicholson...
- 8/17/2017
- by Eric Joseph
- We Got This Covered
This review contains minor spoilers.
Riddle me this, riddle me that, what’s the deep, dark secret of the Bat? After last issue‘s cliffhanger, we’re getting closer to finding out what damaged the Dark Knight forever. However, Batman #26 is mostly about the Joker and the Riddler, as they plunge Gotham into a new chaos.
Now that the Clown Prince of Crime and Edward Nigma have beef, Gotham is stuck in the middle of their feud and suffering as a result. Anyone who gets in their way gets put down, while the rest of the villains must choose which side they’re on – think of it as the rogues’ own civil war. Seemingly, Batman and the Gcpd are powerless in the whole situation, as the bodies pile up and the war heats up. In fact, the list of victims on the last page is pretty frightening to see.
As expected,...
Riddle me this, riddle me that, what’s the deep, dark secret of the Bat? After last issue‘s cliffhanger, we’re getting closer to finding out what damaged the Dark Knight forever. However, Batman #26 is mostly about the Joker and the Riddler, as they plunge Gotham into a new chaos.
Now that the Clown Prince of Crime and Edward Nigma have beef, Gotham is stuck in the middle of their feud and suffering as a result. Anyone who gets in their way gets put down, while the rest of the villains must choose which side they’re on – think of it as the rogues’ own civil war. Seemingly, Batman and the Gcpd are powerless in the whole situation, as the bodies pile up and the war heats up. In fact, the list of victims on the last page is pretty frightening to see.
As expected,...
- 7/5/2017
- by Sergio Pereira
- We Got This Covered
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In the age of the Internet, fan theories are all the rage, and since he’s arguably the single most over character in the history of characters, Batman probably has more than any other. There are countless theories about Batman in the comics, such as that he’s actually a patient at Arkham, or that he created Robin so that he’d have someone to take him down if he ever went bad. Some improve the reading experience, but some are wildly ruinous – but at least fans are seeing a new way to engage with the content.
Somewhat inevitably, this also extends to Batman’s movies as well. Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy ended up getting a fair amount of fan theory treatment, but there are theories that date all the way back to Tim Burton’s 1989 Batman film. And just as inevitably, some of them were...
In the age of the Internet, fan theories are all the rage, and since he’s arguably the single most over character in the history of characters, Batman probably has more than any other. There are countless theories about Batman in the comics, such as that he’s actually a patient at Arkham, or that he created Robin so that he’d have someone to take him down if he ever went bad. Some improve the reading experience, but some are wildly ruinous – but at least fans are seeing a new way to engage with the content.
Somewhat inevitably, this also extends to Batman’s movies as well. Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy ended up getting a fair amount of fan theory treatment, but there are theories that date all the way back to Tim Burton’s 1989 Batman film. And just as inevitably, some of them were...
- 3/28/2016
- by Percival Constantine
- Obsessed with Film
The talented recording artist/actor Common was cast in Suicide Squad, in a role that until today, no one knew what it was. Speculation was up the wazoo, as people wondered whether he'd be playing the comic book character Tattoo Man, or Bronze Tiger. Some people even throughout the possibility of him being John Stewart (an extremely tatted up Stewart).
But alas, that doesn't seem to be the case at all, as he was interviewed by Complex and revealed that he is in fact playing Monster T, an entrepreneur that is in business with *Jack Napier which is easily one of the worst ideas I've ever heard in my entire life. You can watch his full interview below, and also see Ice Cube confirm that he will be in fact playing Spider-Man in the Marvel cinematic universe (chill out I'm joking).
It feels good to be bad... Assemble a team of the world's most dangerous,...
But alas, that doesn't seem to be the case at all, as he was interviewed by Complex and revealed that he is in fact playing Monster T, an entrepreneur that is in business with *Jack Napier which is easily one of the worst ideas I've ever heard in my entire life. You can watch his full interview below, and also see Ice Cube confirm that he will be in fact playing Spider-Man in the Marvel cinematic universe (chill out I'm joking).
It feels good to be bad... Assemble a team of the world's most dangerous,...
- 3/17/2016
- by Nicholas Williams
- LRMonline.com
There's something unsettling about watching villains smile in the movies. Knowing that these characters are capable of sometimes unspeakable evil, but seeing them flash a universal symbol of happiness...it's strange, and can often chill you to the bone.
Editor Semih Okmn put together a nice compilation of some of cinema's most evil bad guys smiling, and provided a full list of characters below:
Agent Smith - The Matrix Series
Chucky
Joker - The Dark Knight
Joker/Jack Napier - Batman (1989)
Freddy Krueger - A Nightmare on Elm Street Series
Pennywise - It
Alex DeLarge - A Clockwork Orange
Amy Dunne - Gone Girl
John Doe - Se7en
Hans Landa - Inglourious Basterds
Sheev Palpatine/Darth Sidious - Star Wars Series
Lord Voldemort - Harry Potter Series
Tony Montana - Scarface
Le Chiffre - Casino Royale
Hans Gruber - Die Hard
Loki - Marvel Cinematic Universe
Anton Chigurh -...
Editor Semih Okmn put together a nice compilation of some of cinema's most evil bad guys smiling, and provided a full list of characters below:
Agent Smith - The Matrix Series
Chucky
Joker - The Dark Knight
Joker/Jack Napier - Batman (1989)
Freddy Krueger - A Nightmare on Elm Street Series
Pennywise - It
Alex DeLarge - A Clockwork Orange
Amy Dunne - Gone Girl
John Doe - Se7en
Hans Landa - Inglourious Basterds
Sheev Palpatine/Darth Sidious - Star Wars Series
Lord Voldemort - Harry Potter Series
Tony Montana - Scarface
Le Chiffre - Casino Royale
Hans Gruber - Die Hard
Loki - Marvel Cinematic Universe
Anton Chigurh -...
- 2/5/2016
- by Ben Pearson
- GeekTyrant
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As Gotham pauses for a lengthy midseason break, we ponder its big mystery – who killed Thomas and Martha Wayne? Spoilers...
This article contains spoilers for Gotham season 2 up to episode 11, Worse Than A Crime.
According to TV Guide – who plonked this sizeable revelation at the end of their midseason interview with Gotham showrunner Bruno Heller – Bruce Wayne will find out who killed his parents at some point between now and the end of season 2.
Yep, within 11 episodes from now the central mystery that’s plagued Master Bruce since the pilot will be apparently be solved. Here's a reminder of the pilot's murder scene for anyone who might wish to refresh their memory before we get into speculation mode…
Will this burly killer be someone we’ve already met? Will it really be Matches Malone, as teased by a possibly lying Silver St. Cloud? And is the identity of the killer really important,...
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As Gotham pauses for a lengthy midseason break, we ponder its big mystery – who killed Thomas and Martha Wayne? Spoilers...
This article contains spoilers for Gotham season 2 up to episode 11, Worse Than A Crime.
According to TV Guide – who plonked this sizeable revelation at the end of their midseason interview with Gotham showrunner Bruno Heller – Bruce Wayne will find out who killed his parents at some point between now and the end of season 2.
Yep, within 11 episodes from now the central mystery that’s plagued Master Bruce since the pilot will be apparently be solved. Here's a reminder of the pilot's murder scene for anyone who might wish to refresh their memory before we get into speculation mode…
Will this burly killer be someone we’ve already met? Will it really be Matches Malone, as teased by a possibly lying Silver St. Cloud? And is the identity of the killer really important,...
- 1/19/2016
- by rleane
- Den of Geek
The Simpsons has pastiched hundreds of movies in its time. From Hitchcock to Kubrick to Disney, we select our top 30 favourites...
The Simpsons has a long history of peppering its stories with pop culture references, and some of the show’s finest gags stem from the world of cinema. These have ranged from the briefest of quotes, to full on shot-for-shot parodies and extended episode-long homages.
Most striking in trying to put this list together was the sheer volume of movie references there are to choose from. In pretty much any given episode of The Simpsons, there are at least a couple, with nods to James Bond, 2001: A Space Odyssey and the work of Alfred Hitchcock proving three of the most regular candidates. The tributes to numerous great horror movies in the show’s Treehouse Of Horror episodes could have been used to fill this list all on their own.
The Simpsons has a long history of peppering its stories with pop culture references, and some of the show’s finest gags stem from the world of cinema. These have ranged from the briefest of quotes, to full on shot-for-shot parodies and extended episode-long homages.
Most striking in trying to put this list together was the sheer volume of movie references there are to choose from. In pretty much any given episode of The Simpsons, there are at least a couple, with nods to James Bond, 2001: A Space Odyssey and the work of Alfred Hitchcock proving three of the most regular candidates. The tributes to numerous great horror movies in the show’s Treehouse Of Horror episodes could have been used to fill this list all on their own.
- 4/23/2015
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Gotham City: dark, dangerous, 'protected' only by a mostly corrupt police department. Despite the best efforts of D.A. Harvey Dent and police commissioner Jim Gordon, the city becomes increasingly unsafe...until a Dark Knight arises. We all know criminals are a superstitious, cowardly lot...so his disguise must be able to strike terror into their hearts. He becomes a bat. Enter Vicky Vale, a prize-winning photo journalist who wants to uncover the secret of the mysterious "bat-man". And enter Jack Napier, one-time enforcer for Boss Grissom, horribly disfigured after a firefight in a chemical factory...who, devoid of the last vestiges of sanity, seizes control of Gotham's underworld as the psychotic, unpredictable Clown Prince of Crime...the Joker. Gotham's only hope, it seems, lies in this dark, brooding vigilante. And just how does billionaire playboy Bruce Wayne fit into all of this?...
- 11/28/2014
- ComicBookMovie.com
Walk down the wrong alleyway in Gotham City and you're in for a nasty shock. Nobody has found this out more frequently (or violently) than Thomas and Martha Wayne, the most murdered people in all of film and television history apart from Sean Bean.
This event proves to be a formative moment in the life of a young Bruce Wayne, the turning point that spurs him on to a life of fighting crime as a masked vigilante.
With the news that Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice will recreate this iconic Dark Knight moment, Digital Spy looks back at some of the screen recreations of that fateful Gotham night.
Batman (1989)
The first big screen depiction of the Waynes' death happened in Tim Burton's 1989 blockbuster. Here there's a twist in the tale as it's not Joe Chill but Jack Napier (later reborn as The Joker) who ambushes the millionaires.
Switching...
This event proves to be a formative moment in the life of a young Bruce Wayne, the turning point that spurs him on to a life of fighting crime as a masked vigilante.
With the news that Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice will recreate this iconic Dark Knight moment, Digital Spy looks back at some of the screen recreations of that fateful Gotham night.
Batman (1989)
The first big screen depiction of the Waynes' death happened in Tim Burton's 1989 blockbuster. Here there's a twist in the tale as it's not Joe Chill but Jack Napier (later reborn as The Joker) who ambushes the millionaires.
Switching...
- 11/18/2014
- Digital Spy
Spoilers: This article contains details on Batman v Superman that some readers may wish to avoid.
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice will feature an iconic scene from the Dark Knight's origins.
During filming in Chicago last week, Zack Snyder's superhero blockbuster recreated the moment when Bruce Wayne witnessed his parents being murdered after an alleyway mugging.
The scene first played out in the November 1939 issue of Detective Comics, with Joe Chill identified as the killer.
Subsequent films, TV shows, comics and video games have replayed the murder, although Tim Burton's 1989 Batman changed the killer from Chill to Jack Nicholson's Jack Napier, who eventually became The Joker.
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Batman v Superman has taken inspiration from Frank Miller's Dark Knight Returns graphic novel by showing the Waynes getting ambushed outside a cinema after seeing The Mark of Zorro...
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice will feature an iconic scene from the Dark Knight's origins.
During filming in Chicago last week, Zack Snyder's superhero blockbuster recreated the moment when Bruce Wayne witnessed his parents being murdered after an alleyway mugging.
The scene first played out in the November 1939 issue of Detective Comics, with Joe Chill identified as the killer.
Subsequent films, TV shows, comics and video games have replayed the murder, although Tim Burton's 1989 Batman changed the killer from Chill to Jack Nicholson's Jack Napier, who eventually became The Joker.
A photo posted by Dan Marcus (@danimalish) on Nov 11, 2014 at 2:48pm Pst
Batman v Superman has taken inspiration from Frank Miller's Dark Knight Returns graphic novel by showing the Waynes getting ambushed outside a cinema after seeing The Mark of Zorro...
- 11/17/2014
- Digital Spy
When Steven Spielberg's Jaws smashed box office records in 1975 it ushered in a new era for the Hollywood blockbuster. The term, coined some years earlier for epics such as The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur, came to represent something more than just financial success after Spielberg's Great White tore through Amity Island. Usually released at the height of summer, this new breed of film had to have scope, scale and deliver on entertainment value. Go big or go home. The blockbuster now became a genre unto itself.
Tim Burton's first Batman movie didn't invent the blockbuster, but it left an indelible mark on cinema when it arrived on a wave of hype in June 1989. The film, like many of today's tentpoles (films designed to support a studio's entire slate), was based on an existing intellectual property and thus had an inbuilt audience primed to fork out money for cinema tickets.
Tim Burton's first Batman movie didn't invent the blockbuster, but it left an indelible mark on cinema when it arrived on a wave of hype in June 1989. The film, like many of today's tentpoles (films designed to support a studio's entire slate), was based on an existing intellectual property and thus had an inbuilt audience primed to fork out money for cinema tickets.
- 11/14/2014
- Digital Spy
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It’s over six years since The Dark Knight took the world by storm and we still can’t stop thinking about Heath Ledger’s incredible performance as the Joker. Originally met with a fan backlash that makes Ben Affleck’s Batman feel loved, as publicity stills and trailers were slowly released it became apparent that Ledger had delivered something incredibly special.
This is made all the more impressive as it was an accepted ‘fact’ amongst the fans that no one could ever do the character better than Jack Nicholson in Tim Burton’s Batman. Now that sentiment feels laughable; next to The Dark Knight’s version, Jack Napier could pass for a genuine children’s entertainer.
One of the biggest elements of the character that Nolan’s version trumped Burton’s was in the origin, or lack thereof; unlike Nicholson, whose story provided the main arc,...
It’s over six years since The Dark Knight took the world by storm and we still can’t stop thinking about Heath Ledger’s incredible performance as the Joker. Originally met with a fan backlash that makes Ben Affleck’s Batman feel loved, as publicity stills and trailers were slowly released it became apparent that Ledger had delivered something incredibly special.
This is made all the more impressive as it was an accepted ‘fact’ amongst the fans that no one could ever do the character better than Jack Nicholson in Tim Burton’s Batman. Now that sentiment feels laughable; next to The Dark Knight’s version, Jack Napier could pass for a genuine children’s entertainer.
One of the biggest elements of the character that Nolan’s version trumped Burton’s was in the origin, or lack thereof; unlike Nicholson, whose story provided the main arc,...
- 10/18/2014
- by Alex Leadbeater
- Obsessed with Film
The best movies leave you thinking about them long after the end credits roll. Some films marinate in the mind more than others, spawning fanciful theories and intriguing 'what ifs' from their dedicated fans.
Is James Bond really just one man? Do the Pixar films exist in a shared universe? And just how did Heath Ledger's Joker get those scars? We look at 9 mind-blowing movie fan theories below...
Heath Ledger's Joker is a war veteran
The Joker appears in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight seemingly out of the blue, an agent of destruction hell-bent on reeking havoc across Gotham. Unlike Jack Nicholson's Jack Napier, we never get to see a backstory for Heath Ledger's incarnation play out.
The Joker himself offers up two contrasting "wanna know how I got these scars?" stories so we can never truly trust the Clown Prince of Crime's explanation. One...
Is James Bond really just one man? Do the Pixar films exist in a shared universe? And just how did Heath Ledger's Joker get those scars? We look at 9 mind-blowing movie fan theories below...
Heath Ledger's Joker is a war veteran
The Joker appears in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight seemingly out of the blue, an agent of destruction hell-bent on reeking havoc across Gotham. Unlike Jack Nicholson's Jack Napier, we never get to see a backstory for Heath Ledger's incarnation play out.
The Joker himself offers up two contrasting "wanna know how I got these scars?" stories so we can never truly trust the Clown Prince of Crime's explanation. One...
- 9/23/2014
- Digital Spy
We take a light-hearted look at a few of the more strange coincidences and quirks of fate in recent cinema history...
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Stories are often built on coincidences and happenstance. Chance encounters at railway stations. Bruce Willis bumping into Ving Rhames while he's out and about in his Honda in Pulp Fiction. But what about those weird patterns we see in our everyday reality, or, more to the point, in cinema history?
When Batman Begins came out, it was widely noted that Christian Bale had already played an unfathomably rich man with a secret double life before, in Mary Harron's adaptation of American Psycho. Bale's character, Patrick Bateman, even has a surname that's basically Batman with an 'e' added to it.
Those are the kinds of strange quirks of fate we're looking at here. If you have any of your own, do share them in the comments section.
10. Instruments...
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Stories are often built on coincidences and happenstance. Chance encounters at railway stations. Bruce Willis bumping into Ving Rhames while he's out and about in his Honda in Pulp Fiction. But what about those weird patterns we see in our everyday reality, or, more to the point, in cinema history?
When Batman Begins came out, it was widely noted that Christian Bale had already played an unfathomably rich man with a secret double life before, in Mary Harron's adaptation of American Psycho. Bale's character, Patrick Bateman, even has a surname that's basically Batman with an 'e' added to it.
Those are the kinds of strange quirks of fate we're looking at here. If you have any of your own, do share them in the comments section.
10. Instruments...
- 7/10/2014
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
Some superheroes have their origins in ways unavailable to your average person. Batman and Iron Man rely on their own personal well-funded technology. Captain American is a result of a highly complex super soldier program. Thor is a space alien god, which could also be said for Superman. And someone like Ghost Rider or Jonah Hex has his origins in the supernatural. Still, there are plenty of superhero origins that rely on pure chance, often a result of a horrible accident. That got me thinking… could an industrial accident really turn you into a movie superhero? The Answer: Almost assuredly not. And you’d die a painful, horrible death. So don’t do it. In the interest of simplicity, these origins are from the movies rather than the comic books themselves. While the comics feature some pretty outlandish and unbelievable origins, there’s a narrower field in the films themselves. Two...
- 2/19/2014
- by Kevin Carr
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
If there is one thing I was I can say I’ve always been disappointed with, when it comes to the live-action Batman films (both old and new,) it’s the ubiquitous exclusion of one Harvey Bullock. He’s a police detective from the comic books who has never been given a fair shake in any live-action movie. Characters have shared similar traits with him, but never has an adaptation of the Bullock character appeared on screen. But he did have a fair bit of coverage in Batman: The Animated Series, perhaps signalling television is where the character best belongs. With that in mind, I’m incredibly excited to say Bullock will be appearing in Fox’s Gotham project.
The Batman-prequel has cast Sons of Anarchy alum Donal Logue in the role of Harvey Bullock, making him the first actor to ever portray the character in a live-action production. Bullock...
The Batman-prequel has cast Sons of Anarchy alum Donal Logue in the role of Harvey Bullock, making him the first actor to ever portray the character in a live-action production. Bullock...
- 2/19/2014
- by Brody Gibson
- Boomtron
Don’t you love when a spoiler leaks to we, the misbegotten nerds, and suddenly the Internet is on fire? I sure do. And nothing has gotten our ragespew a flowin’ in recent memory like the potential spoiler (ahem… alert.) that Wonder Woman would be a descendant of the Kryptonian colonists of yesteryear in the Man of Steel movieverse. Funny enough, it didn’t phase me in the least. Whereas some of my close personal friends let loose a brilliantly recorded tirade railing against the very notion of it, I simply concluded that it made sense to me. Rao be damned!
So, Internet, why all the anger? Well, the knee-jerk reaction is to simply say the pitch is not in line with the true origins of the character in the source material. It’d be rude of me to then say completely straight-faced “Oh my gawd, you’re absolutely right!
So, Internet, why all the anger? Well, the knee-jerk reaction is to simply say the pitch is not in line with the true origins of the character in the source material. It’d be rude of me to then say completely straight-faced “Oh my gawd, you’re absolutely right!
- 1/25/2014
- by Marc Alan Fishman
- Comicmix.com
In this piece, I delve into the murky multiple origins of ‘The Clown Prince of Crime’ and come out offering both a history lesson and a splash-page headache.
Spoiler Alert (well, sort of)…
After reading this month’s double-sized Batman Issue 24, it seems we have yet another origin for The Joker, The Dark Knight’s quintessential arch villain…
In this newest genesis, the villain formerly known as The Red Hood falls into a vat of toxic chemicals, as usual, but this time he does so with an (literally and figuratively) explosive twist. Its revisionist history, yes, but it isn’t without precedent. You see The Man Who Laughs has been born (and then re-born) a great many times before.
When comic book readers first met The Joker, he was fully formed and ready to create chaos. Initially a homicidal prankster, The Golden Age Joker’s character would be smoothed over during the McCarthy/Wertham era,...
Spoiler Alert (well, sort of)…
After reading this month’s double-sized Batman Issue 24, it seems we have yet another origin for The Joker, The Dark Knight’s quintessential arch villain…
In this newest genesis, the villain formerly known as The Red Hood falls into a vat of toxic chemicals, as usual, but this time he does so with an (literally and figuratively) explosive twist. Its revisionist history, yes, but it isn’t without precedent. You see The Man Who Laughs has been born (and then re-born) a great many times before.
When comic book readers first met The Joker, he was fully formed and ready to create chaos. Initially a homicidal prankster, The Golden Age Joker’s character would be smoothed over during the McCarthy/Wertham era,...
- 10/23/2013
- by Chris Quicksilver
- Obsessed with Film
The past week or so has seen a number of notable actresses line up some choice projects, so here's a little recap of what's been going on around town.... Maggie Gyllenhaal will star in “The Honourable Woman,” an 8-part spy thriller miniseries set in the UK, the Middle East and America. Gyllenhaal will play the daughter of a zionist arm dealer who gets entangled in an international conspiracy linked to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.The series is penned by Hugo Blick, who in addition to being a seasoned TV show writer in the UK (“Marion and Geoff,” “The Shadow Line”), played the young Jack Napier -- a.k.a. the Joker -- in Tim Burton’s 1989 “Batman.” Filming will start mid-July for a 2014 broadcast, and it will air on The Sundance Channel. [Deadline]Australian actress Emily Browning (Zack Snyder’s CGI-fest “Sucker Punch” and Julia Leigh’s controversial “Sleeping Beauty”) will star...
- 7/3/2013
- by Jason Guimaron
- The Playlist
In childhood the monster that lived under my bed was a shadowy, shape-shifting fear of the unknown. By adulthood that monster had morphed into a more specific beast: insecurity. Will my relationship survive? Is my life, my job, my future, a joke? Who am I, how did I get here? Does anybody care??
Charlie Brooker’s Emmy winning Black Mirror returns for a second series with three more self contained stories. The broadcaster and columnist this time serves as writer for all three and his pithy insight packs a punch that lands well across each drama in the anthology.
The DVD opens with Be Right Back. Ash and Martha are looking forward to starting a new life in the country together. As the young couple unpacks, Ash cannot resist uploading a photo of his younger self for his friends to mock online. Martha gestures to the phone and jokes that...
Charlie Brooker’s Emmy winning Black Mirror returns for a second series with three more self contained stories. The broadcaster and columnist this time serves as writer for all three and his pithy insight packs a punch that lands well across each drama in the anthology.
The DVD opens with Be Right Back. Ash and Martha are looking forward to starting a new life in the country together. As the young couple unpacks, Ash cannot resist uploading a photo of his younger self for his friends to mock online. Martha gestures to the phone and jokes that...
- 5/7/2013
- by Emily Breen
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Batman (1989) was directed by Tim Burton, from a screenplay written by Sam Hamm and Warren Skaaren. The film starred: Michael Keaton as Bruce Wayne/Batman, Jack Nicholson as Jack Napier/The Joker, Kim Basinger as Vicki Vale, Michael Gough as Alfred Pennyworth, Tracey Walter as Bob, Robert Wuhl as Alexander Knox, Pat Hingle as Commissioner Gordon, Billy Dee Williams as Harvey Dent, Jack Palance as Carl Grissom, and William Hootkins as Lt. Eckhardt. With a budget of $48 million, the filmed earned $411 million at the worldwide box office.
- 3/10/2013
- ComicBookMovie.com
Where is the line drawn between politics and entertainment? In the final instalment of the excellent second series of Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror, that issue is exactly what is under the spotlight. It's perhaps the most plausible episode of the show so far, following what happens when a cartoon bear (presenting a particularly juvenile but popular brand of humour) ends up participating as a candidate in a by-election.The blue bear, named Waldo, is voiced by young comedian Jaime (Daniel Rigby) and provides audiences with empty amusement by vulgarly pointing fun at politicians. Sensing the character's potential, Jack Napier (Jason Flemyng) pushes for Waldo to get his own pilot. Things take an unexpected turn, however, when a brainstorming session leads to the idea of running Waldo...
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- 2/26/2013
- Screen Anarchy
Black Mirror's series two opener 'Be Right Back' was a compelling mix of light and dark, while last week's 'White Bear' was unremittingly bleak. But with series closer 'The Waldo Moment' being billed as a political satire of sorts, I'd expected a drama infused with moments of dark humour - something akin to series one's brilliant 'The National Anthem'.
Anyone who's seen that memorable episode or indeed an edition of Newswipe knows that Charlie Brooker can be brilliantly scathing about politics, but unfortunately 'The Waldo Moment' fell short of my expectations.
The film follows Jamie Salter (Daniel Rigby), a failed comic in low spirits - his personal life is in tatters and his job - voicing a cartoon bear named Waldo on a political satire series - is deeply unsatisfying.
Waldo's latest target is Tory politician Liam Monroe - brought to slippery life by Tobias Menzies - but what...
Anyone who's seen that memorable episode or indeed an edition of Newswipe knows that Charlie Brooker can be brilliantly scathing about politics, but unfortunately 'The Waldo Moment' fell short of my expectations.
The film follows Jamie Salter (Daniel Rigby), a failed comic in low spirits - his personal life is in tatters and his job - voicing a cartoon bear named Waldo on a political satire series - is deeply unsatisfying.
Waldo's latest target is Tory politician Liam Monroe - brought to slippery life by Tobias Menzies - but what...
- 2/25/2013
- Digital Spy
Review Ryan Lambie 26 Feb 2013 - 10:19
The current series of Black Mirror comes to a close with The Waldo Moment. Here's Ryan's spoiler-filled review of episode three...
Warning: the following contains paragraphs of a spoiler-filled nature. Reader discretion advised.
After the understated melancholy of Be Right Back, and the aggressive aural assault of White Bear, we were wondering where the third and final Black Mirror episode might take us. Somewhere in the middle is the answer, with a dystopian political satire told with bleak humour, yet lacking either the emotional tug of the first episode, or the second's palpable sense of outrage.
The Waldo Moment begins with two intertwining stories. In one, we meet Gwendolyn Harris (Chloe Pirrie), a young woman on the cusp of a new career in politics, having scraped into the role of a local Labour MP in spite of a less than stellar job interview ("I...
The current series of Black Mirror comes to a close with The Waldo Moment. Here's Ryan's spoiler-filled review of episode three...
Warning: the following contains paragraphs of a spoiler-filled nature. Reader discretion advised.
After the understated melancholy of Be Right Back, and the aggressive aural assault of White Bear, we were wondering where the third and final Black Mirror episode might take us. Somewhere in the middle is the answer, with a dystopian political satire told with bleak humour, yet lacking either the emotional tug of the first episode, or the second's palpable sense of outrage.
The Waldo Moment begins with two intertwining stories. In one, we meet Gwendolyn Harris (Chloe Pirrie), a young woman on the cusp of a new career in politics, having scraped into the role of a local Labour MP in spite of a less than stellar job interview ("I...
- 2/25/2013
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
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