Warner Bros. confirmed that “Brokeback Mountain” star Heath Ledger will be playing The Joker in “The Dark Knight”, the latest Batman sequel.
The 27-year-old Australia borned actor was nominated for Oscar last year with Brokeback Mountain, playing as the gayish cowboy alongside Jake Gyllenhaal.
It would be interesting to see how Ledger would fair against the ‘original’ Joker played by Jack Nicholson in the 1989 Batman movie.
January 16th, 2007 at 2:29 am
I’m sure Ledger would fare alright as the Joker but Jack Nicholson would be a hard one to match on that role. Jack was excellent!, but then, he has had so many roles anyway that required him to play a crazy, insane type person before. LOL.
January 16th, 2007 at 8:46 am
It’s hard to match Jack Nicholson in many roles, that fella is a great actor.