It's the most persistent rumor surrounding Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight Trilogy, but is there any truth to it?
The rumor that The Dark Knight Rises was supposed to feature the return of Heath Ledger’s Joker has followed the film since its inception. To be fair, it’s easy to see why. Despite initially being a controversial choice for the role, Ledger’s performance in The Dark Knight earned universal acclaim from fans and critics alike, and has since been cited as the greatest in the entire superhero genre. It’s no surprise Warner Bros.
But as anyone who has watched these films will already knows, things didn’t turn out that way. It isn’t clear when the decision was made to coalesce Goyer’s treatments into one narrative, but considering how definitively The Dark Knight wraps up the struggle between Batman and the Joker for the fate of Harvey Dent , it presumably happened rather early. History has vindicated this as the right outcome, with part of The Dark Knight’s appeal coming from its self-contained design .
But that still left the matter of how to address the Joker moving forward. When last we see him – tangling from a skyscraper after the people of Gotham prove they’ll never be as morally corrupt as him – he is still very much alive, and with his successful corruption of Harvey Dent forming a vital pillar of The Dark Knight Rises’ plot, it seems unlikely that he was never considered for even a minor appearance.
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