{"id":437,"date":"2006-08-02T01:01:59","date_gmt":"2006-08-02T08:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/?p=437"},"modified":"2006-08-02T01:01:59","modified_gmt":"2006-08-02T08:01:59","slug":"the-joker-card-has-been-dealt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/02\/the-joker-card-has-been-dealt\/","title":{"rendered":"The Joker Card Has Been Dealt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although I should have gone to bed over an hour ago, I couldn&#8217;t help but stay up and read a ton of news articles and low and behold I found out that not only is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sevensquared.com\/blog\/archives\/000263.html\">Christoper Nolan<\/a> directing another Batman movie &#8211; pretty friggin sweet to know its 100% confirmed &#8211; and not only is it being named &#8220;The Dark Knight&#8221; &#8211; an homage to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Batman:_The_Dark_Knight_Returns\">&#8220;The Dark Knight Returns&#8221;<\/a> which, &#8220;along with Alan Moore&#8217;s &#8216;Watchmen&#8217; and Art Spiegelman&#8217;s &#8216;Maus,&#8217; helped to raise the medium to a more mature level of literature, and it ushered in the popularity of graphic novels as a form of literature that truly differs from &#8220;child-oriented comic books&#8221; &#8211; but that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/SHOWBIZ\/Movies\/08\/01\/film.ledger.reut\/index.html?eref=yahoo\">the new Joker character<\/a> will be played by Heath Ledger.  I also learned Bale (Batman) and Nolan are hooking up on a new movie called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/trailers\/touchstone\/theprestige\/\">&#8220;The Prestige&#8221;<\/a> which also stars Logan, aka Wolverine, aka Hugh Jackman.  Talk about a cool Marvel\/DC cross-over&#8230;<br \/>\nOkay, I am going to bed now because I&#8217;m <em>defintely<\/em> not going to find out anything better that this bit of news tonight.  I might be dreaming of bats&#8230;and possibly Jack Nicholson, though I hope not&#8230;<br \/>\n(quote courtesey of Wikipedia &#8211; who else?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although I should have gone to bed over an hour ago, I couldn&#8217;t help but stay up and read a ton of news articles and low and behold I found out that not only is Christoper Nolan directing another Batman movie &#8211; pretty friggin sweet to know its 100% confirmed &#8211; and not only is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[71,422],"class_list":["post-437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-batman","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}