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Dark Knight Batman Sequel Gets IMAX-sized Preview

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The Dark Knight courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures
The first six minutes of The Dark Knight, the follow-up to Batman Begins, will play as a preview in IMAX theaters showing Will Smith's I Am Legend (hitting screens Dec. 14). The opening sequence concerns a bank robbery by clown-masked henchmen, and leads up to the first look at Heath Ledger's Joker. "Seeing this extraordinary face, eight stories high.... You can smell his breath," director Chris Nolan tells the Reporter. "It's a creepy moment, as it should be" — especially since the Joker is known to eat lots of onions.

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Posted by TV Guide Staff
Dec 7, 2007 9:49 AM
Loved the first "new" Batman movie with Christian Bale. I hope they maintain the high standards, and avoid the trap of adding too many villans (as did the previous series). I also hope that both Morgan Freeman and Michael Cane are returning to the franchise as well.
Posted by omg0324
Dec 7, 2007 3:19 PM
I'm sold. I wasn't planning on seeing I Am Legend in IMAX, (actually, I didn't know it would be in IMAX,) but I'm gonna go see it now for sure.
Posted by Šarclyte
Dec 10, 2007 7:21 AM
Heath Ledger is good, but I like Jack Nicholson better. Why? Because he played the Joker in the first Batman feature film back in 1989. The movie I am referring to also starred Michael Keaton as the Dark Knight himself.
Posted by BenjaminSisko
Dec 10, 2007 3:40 PM
The Joker in Burton's 1989 Batman was good, the best to date, but Nicholson still played him a little too campy for my taste, knowing what the real Joker is like in the comics (if you don't believe me, check out the graphic novel The Killing Joke). The Joker is one sick, twisted dude. But in 1989 the only other real reference we had was Cesar Romero's iconic portrayal in the old Adam West Batman television show, who hammed it up for the camera like every good villain did, so Batman and Robin could deliver their cheesy lines while escaping from their cheesy deathtraps. If Ledger plays the Joker the way I'm imagining it, the way I imagine Nolan would be directing, this will be the greatest portrayal of a Batman villain yet.
Posted by FrenchCelt
Dec 11, 2007 4:54 AM
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