LEDGER WAS DONE WITH BATMAN

Director Christopher Nolan has written a nice little epitaph in this weeks Newsweek for Heath Ledger, who starred for Nolan as the Joker in the upcoming Batman sequel, "the Dark Knight". A clip:

Heath was bursting with creativity. It was in his every gesture. He once told me that he liked to wait between jobs until he was creatively hungry. Until he needed it again. He brought that attitude to our set every day. There aren't many actors who can make you feel ashamed of how often you complain about doing the best job in the world. Heath was one of them.

In other Ledger Dark Knight news, it does appear that Ledger was finished with all of his work as the Joker, including all of his post-production looping work (source).  Very obviously if any changes need to be made, it will be difficult (they would have to use a voice double or mash up existing bits of dialogue), but Ledgers work was complete.  And if you saw "I Am Legend" in IMAX this weekend (no, I'm kidding, no one saw that shit), you also saw a new 6 minute trailer for "the Dark Knight", which is basically the opening scene showing the Joker robbing a bank.  The bootleg above is the only copy online just yet.  It looks like they hid the camera under 6 feet of dirt, so the quality is awful and the sound is even worse.  Just once it would be nice to see bootleg footage that didn't look like it was filmed  underwater or from beyond the grave.