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Creepy Early Concept Art For Ledger's Joker
cinematical.com - 8/8/2008
Creepy Early Concept Art For Ledger's Joker
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If you thought that Heath Ledger's Glasgow grin in The Dark Knight was gruesome, consider that it may have actually been tame . Peter over at /film has scanned in a bunch of images from the making-of book , and they illustrate a few of the early Joker ideas that were created in pre-production, before Ledger was cast (check out a couple in the gallery below, and more over at Slash). It's ...

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Creepy Early Concept Art For Ledger's Joker
Oh No They Didn't! — ... short and spiky look, which says Mark McGrath more than clown-faced madman. I have no idea how much Ledger brought to the table in terms of his look, and it doesn't sound like that's mentioned in the book, either. Creepy stuff -- frankly, if this is how dark Christopher Nolan's team can go, I can't wait to see what they could do with a new villain altogether  Early Joker Designs SOURCE ...

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