— You can thank me for Jack Nicholson’s Joker. Really, you can. When I was, I dunno, 10 or 11 — right around the timeI was reading this— I would write to DC Comics with my dream cast for a Batman movie, and the only actor I wanted as the Joker was Jack Nicholson. Wouldn...
Rita Kempley
s TV series. The next step, publicly casting the Joker, had to assuage premature and unfounded concerns about the film’s tonal direction. Jack Nicholson had been the first choice of producer Michael Uslan and Bob Kane (acting in an advisory role) since they first tried to pull the project...
Born August 30, 1965—Laeta Kalogridis, 58. She was an executive producer of the short-lived not so greatBirds of Preyseries and she co-wrote the screenplays forTerminator GenisysandAlita: Battle Angel. She recently was the creator and executive producer ofAltered Carbon. She also has a scree...
who penned a horrifying villain. What’s funny is to look back at the awful portrayal Jack Nicholson did in the original BATMAN film and to see how he misunderstood the character. In his hands Joker is a clown still, but one that laughs at cruelty. Ledger’s Joker laughs, sure, but th...
G eorge Clooney was supposed to be the sexiest Batman ever. The ER heart throb was...Pringle, Gill
Joker Jack Always Has the Last Laugh; EVIL GENIUS: Jack Nicholson as the Joker in the 1989 Version of Batman