Ledger took sleeping pills, but a good night’s rest eluded him, particularly since playing The Joker in The Dark Knight, a character he described to The New York Times as a “a psychopathic ...

At the same time, Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight trilogy takes place in a more comic book-inspired superhero universe, with Heath Ledger's Joker as an established villain in Gotham ...

Heath Ledger stunned the world with his portrayal of the Joker in The Dark Knight. The DC supervillain is presented much more realistically than he ever had before, but he retains as much menace ...

Heath Ledger’s Joker has since become a meme, as fans online pair his image with harmless “Dark Knight” quotes or photoshop Joker makeup on political figures like Barack Obama, Donald Trump ...

“You wanna know how I got these scars?” Heath Ledger’s Joker asks in The Dark Knight. It’s a rhetorical question the Clown Prince of Crime utters twice in the film, followed by two very ...

"According to one source, the original ending of the first movie featured Phoenix’s Joker carving his face in front of a crowd of his supporters. But The Dark Knight filmmaker Christopher Nolan ...

Then, just out of focus in the background, we see him carve a smile into his face, an unmistakable nod to The Dark Knight's Joker's scars. Oh, brother.

It's a battle of bat-shaped titans. The Dark Knight and The Batman are considered some of the best live-action ...

He could fly to the bank at the opening of The Dark Knight, phase his way through the wall, turn invisible, and haul Joker off. Joker would have a hard time fighting the Martian Manhunter if he ...