Okay. We all have seen The Dark Knight. If you haven’t, then I cannot talk to you. Anyway… we all know the big deal with The Dark Knight. It broke records. It’s the best superhero movie of all-time. Heath Ledger gave a masterful performance before his tragic death. Christopher Nolan is FINALLY known among casual moviegoers. Life is good in the movie world. So good that even though The Dark Knight was released about two months ago on July 18, it’s still the most talked about movie in the world.
Let’s see what everyone’s been talking about lately…
Casey Seijas from MTV broke a rumor on September 8 that Michael Caine confirmed that Johnny Depp will play The Riddler and Philip Seymour Hoffman will play The Penguin in the next Batman film. Read the whole article here: http://splashpage.mtv.com/2008/09/08/dark-knight-exclusive-michael-caine-says-johnny-depp-is-the-riddler-philip-seymour-hoffman-is-the-penguin/
Following those rumors, Philip Seymour Hoffman responded to MTV saying, “No one has talked to be about it ever – never.” Read it here: http://splashpage.mtv.com/2008/09/09/dark-knight-update-philip-seymour-hoffman-responds-to-casting-rumor-i-dont-know-if-id-be-a-good-penguin/
Ben Child of The Guardian in UK puts the rumors to rest about the future of Harvey Dent’s character played by Aaron Eckhart. Read more here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/sep/04/darkknight
Jen Hance from the Northern Star writes about how she’s excited about the possibility of Nolan recreating the female villains such as Poison Ivy or Catwoman. Check out what she thinks here: http://www.northernstar.info/article/4108/
Carl DiOrio from Reuters has announced that Warner Brothers is taking the possibility of The Dark Knight destined for Oscar gold very seriously. The Dark Knight will be re-released in January for their Oscar campaign. Read it all here: http://www.reuters.com/article/industryNews/idUSN1044022120080911
Brad Brevet from Rope of Silicon explains why he feels that there shouldn’t be a ‘Dark Knight’ sequel here: http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/there_should_not_be_a_dark_knight_sequel
Aside from all of those rumors, there are some really interesting points made about The Dark Knight. First, I love how Warner Brothers is going to campaign TDK for The Academy Awards. As of right now, it seems that TDK has a legitimate shot at making a splash for some golden statues. Of course, the Fall movie season just started, and things are about to get shaken up. There are a number of movies with Oscar potential and I can only assume that’ll push TDK to the back of the line when time comes to vote in the nominees. But with careful campaigning, starting with the re-release in January, TDK does have a shot for Best Picture.
Brad Brevet’s article was very detailed in explaining why there shouldn’t be a sequel to TDK. He goes forth putting TDK up there among the best sequel of all-time next to The Godfather Part II and The Emptire Strikes Back. He continues by saying how both of their third installments (The Godfather Part III and The Return of the Jedi) were good, but a disappointing follow-up to the second installment. He also comments how Christopher Nolan wants to make other films before even considering a third Batman film. This is something I’m excited about. Even though the Batman films are great, I’m sure Nolan has a number of movie ideas that’ll blow everyone away like he did with The Prestige and Memento. Finally, he dives into the initial plotline intended for the second and third Batman films, which involves a continuation of The Joker. So Harvy Dent dies and the cliff-hanger is The Joker… but Heath Ledger is gone. Yeah, that creates a problem. I’m sure Nolan can think of a way around it, but that is a huge let down.
The rumors and the Batman talk won’t die down until…. well until the third installment is finally confirmed with all of its plotlines and characters. Until then, we’ll be swimming in Gotham City Gossip.
Posted by Rob Eng 
