After a decisive victory in the fight against the mafia of the city of Gotham, Batman (Bale) and his allies, Lieutenant Gordon (Oldman) and Prosecutor Harvey Dent (Eckhart), face a new kind of evil - the manic criminal Joker (Ledger), who wants to wreak havoc in the city …
The tape is a continuation of the film "Batman: Begins" and is not connected with the plot of the four films about the adventures of the Bat-Man, filmed in the 80-90s. That is why Nolan was able again, from a blank page, to tell the plot with the participation of the two main enemies of the hero - Joker and Two-Face (in previous films they were played by Jack Nicholson and Tommy Lee Jones, respectively.
The budget of the painting is $ 180 million. Among the actors who were called contenders for the role of the Joker are Sean Penn, Johnny Depp, Paul Bettany, Latchi Hulme, Adrian Brody, Vincent Cassel, Robin Williams, but the director assures that only Ledger was on his personal list. Guy Pearce, Liv Schreiber, Jamie Foxx, John Lucas, Matt Damon, Hugh Jackman were considered candidates for the role of Dent Two-Face, and Rachel McAdams and Isla Fisher were candidates for the female role.
Filming
Preparing for the role of Joker, Ledger spent a week in a London hotel, where he worked on his voice and kept a special diary. There is a version that it was the intense reincarnation that caused the depression of the actor, who died in January 2008 due to an overdose of several prescription drugs. However, colleagues who worked with Heath on "Knight" claim that they did not notice any signs of depression.
Rumor has it that Eckhart played each of the scenes with Two-Face twice: the first time with a normal face, the second with a distorting make-up. The two Dents were then combined using computer technology similar to those used to create Gollum from The Lord of the Rings.
Filming began in April 2007 in Chicago, where the first scene was filmed - the attack by the Joker gang on the national bank. This and several other episodes were filmed in the Imax format - Nolan was the first director to use this new format in a high-budget blockbuster.
In the summer, filming continued in the UK, then moved to Chicago and ended in Hong Kong. The director insisted that CGS be used in action scenes only when necessary.
Outcomes
The picture was released on July 18, 2008 in the United States and on July 25, 2008 in the United Kingdom., And it hit the Russian cinemas on August 14.
The Dark Knight is ranked 4th on IMDb's list of the 250 best films of all time with an average score of 9.0.
Rotten Tomatoes had a 94% approval rate for the film.
The Joker (played by Ledger) is ranked sixth in the British Empire's 100 Greatest Movie Heroes list
The British Film Classification Board received over 200 complaints about the film, representing 42% of all letters the board received in 2008 from dissatisfied viewers.
With over $ 1 billion in revenue worldwide, it became the highest grossing film of 2008 and is the 36th highest grossing film of all time.
The film received eight Oscar nominations; he won an award for best sound design, and Ledger was posthumously awarded for Best Supporting Actor.
