Two-Face Won't Be Back For Batman 3 Says Harvey Dent himself, Aaron Eckhart Source: Coming Soon
You know, if somehow – somehow, we don’t know how – you haven’t seen The Dark Knight yet, then we have two things to say to you: don’t go any further, for here be spoilers. And what the hell are you doing? Go see it! Now!
Have they gone? Good.
Right, for those of you who have seen it, there appears to have been some kind of debate over the fate of Harvey Dent at the end of the movie, with some mischievous fanboys refusing to accept that the Gotham DA is dead. All this despite the following:
• We see his corpse. It’s not moving. Or breathing. So it's a corpse. • We see his funeral. Funerals tend to be held when people are dead. • The Dark Knight script, which is now online if you know where to look, states, quite categorically, that Dent is dead. Finished. Kaput. He’s shuffled off the mortal coil. He’s run down the curtain and joined the bleedin’ choir invisible. He is an ex-Two-Face.
But still the conspiracy theories keep coming… about how Dent’s ‘death’ is a smokescreen. How he’ll come back in the third Batman film and wreak merry havoc. But that’s not going to happen. Officially. Sez who? Sez Aaron Eckhart, the guy who played Dent, that’s who. And if anyone should know, it’s him.
“He is dead as a door nail,” Eckhart told Coming Soon, while unwittingly contining our Monty Python’s Dead Parrot Sketch theme. “I asked Chris [Nolan] that question and he goes, "You're dead" before I could even get the question out of my mouth. "Hey Chris, am I?" "You're dead!" Alright, cool.”
So that settles it. Two-Face is now strictly in the past tense. Which is ballsy, but then again, Nolan did kill off Ra’s Al Ghul in Batman Begins, so he clearly cares not a jot for keeping bad guys alive.
But all this continues to beg the question: if – and when – he returns to the Batfold, who will be the bad guy, or guys? Yes, it probably will be The Riddler and Catwoman, but our respect for Nolan, which is already pretty damn high, would rocket further if he could find a way to bring back Arnie as Mr. Freeze.
Now that would be awesome. Bat-awesome.
To read more from Eckhart on the Dark Knight experience, click here.
I think people seem to be missing the possibility that a 3rd movie was planned from the outset. The ending of TDK appeared, to me at least, to be setting the scene for a 3rd film.
The ambiguity over wether 2Face is dead or not, what happened to The Joker, Batman excepting his lot as a villainous figure (very un-Hollywood if that really is the end of the story). So, yeah...I think a threequel was telegraphed.
But then Ledger died.
Yeah, they could re-cast, but after the incredibl... Read More
It was obvious wasn't it? Nolan's Batman is grounded in reality. If someone (Two Face) falls down without protection and cracks his head open, he ain't coming back. ... Read More
-Face is dead, or should be if the end of TDK is to retain any emotional impact whatsoever. A qualifier to 'Batman never kills' should be '...unless it's a choice between the villain and an innocent'. Given he had been shot, desperately lunging at Dent was perhaps the only choice he had. Plus, the whole point of the finale is to convey just how hard it is to have such absolute mantras like not killing in such a complex world. ood point..I think Nolan does make the point in Batman Begins also wi... Read More
Unless Nolan radically changes the Riddler (which I expect he would) he's not a good enough villain to be the main one, unless the film (like begins) focuses much more on batman again.
And Two-Face is dead, or should be if the end of TDK is to retain any emotional impact whatsoever. A qualifier to 'Batman never kills' should be '...unless it's a choice between the villain and an innocent'. Given he had been shot, desperately lunging at Dent was perhaps the only choice he had. Plus, the who... Read More
L: KeithM
L: Mr Terrific
... I am sure Nolan wants some new ideas...and explore new territory.
second that.
Please - no Riddler, Penguin, Catwoman, Mr. Freeze or any of the other villains we've already seen in Movies or on TV already (unless as secondary characters perhaps). Something different - at least for the screen - is needed.
They don't need to use the same old rogues gallery to 'sell' the audience now - they can be bold and continue to break new gro... Read More
L: Mr Terrific
... I am sure Nolan wants some new ideas...and explore new territory.
second that.
Please - no Riddler, Penguin, Catwoman, Mr. Freeze or any of the other villains we've already seen in Movies or on TV already (unless as secondary characters perhaps). Something different - at least for the screen - is needed.
They don't need to use the same old rogues gallery to 'sell' the audience now - they can be bold and continue to break new ground with Batman ... Read More
es me off the way people keep saying how close in chracter The Joker and The Riddler are, they are fundamentally different personalities and approaches to how they operate, completely different.
Joker - psychotic, bold, impulsive, sociopath
Riddler - awkard socially, anal, control freak, loner
I rst my case.
Batman solving challenges set by criminal mastermind?
Been done mate in TDK. I am sure Nolan wants some new ideas...and explore new territory.
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