Made in Hollywood

In the early morning in New York, a busy day has begun. In a four-story apartment on Bloom Street in Manhattan, the young Heath Ledger woke up from his sleep and just opened his eyes and felt something was wrong.

There was a lingering sound of mosquito wings flapping in his head, "buzzing...buzzing...", the sound changed from small to loud, and the continuous sound gradually escalated into a huge booming sound. He felt Something squeezed out of the blood vessels and almost cracked his body. The sound around him was covered with a sound insulation layer and it was blurred and deformed like an electronic device, and the patterns in his eyes kept shaking and distorting.

The skin started to get cold, and Heath Ledger could feel it twitching involuntarily, and the kitten who did not know where it came from scratched the raised goose bumps with sharp claws. The itching pain gradually penetrated into the bones along the pores, his hands I want to touch it but can't touch it, I want to scratch it, but it doesn't work, I can only shake my body to rub the bones with flesh and blood in an attempt to relieve itching.

This is simply a kind of inhuman torture, and it will definitely make him collapse if it continues.

Since this state has been in existence for several years, Heath Ledger naturally knew where the problem was. He propped up his body and touched a medicine bottle from the bedside table. After hesitating for less than half a second, he unscrewed the bottle. Gai, poured out a few pills and stuffed them into his mouth, and swallowed them without drinking any water.

It seems that there is a heart ≡≠, reason implies that all the strange feelings in the body and mind suddenly disappeared, the whole person became energetic, and the young and handsome talented actor returned to him.

Gradually, Heath Ledger returned to his normal state. He shook his head vigorously, and his eyes fell on another item on the bedside table. It was a character script, and the famous director Duke Rosenberg’s agent specialized The script for the villain in Batman's second installment.

Although he heard from the other party that the script has not yet been finalized, the role will not change much. It has been a while since the role script was delivered to him, and Heath Ledger has also read and studied it several times. It is a role full of magic, a role that allows him to really play!

In 1989, Jack Nicholson had an interpretation of this role and won numerous praises.

Under normal circumstances. With Zhuanmei in front, most people will never touch such a role again.

Heath Ledger originally wanted to refuse, but after reading the character script, he discovered that the character setting has undergone a radical change. Although both characters are called clowns, they are by no means the same.

And the setting of the clown in this character script... how to say it, it seems indescribable with crazy and amazing.

I heard that this role was set by Duke Rosenberg, and perhaps only such a special director can adapt such a special role.

Thought of this. Heath Ledger took the script and read it again.

In this role script, the clown shows a kind of madness, a madness without a bottom line and guidelines, and a craziness to the culmination of evil.

And what is the evil that has reached its peak? In the culmination of evil, evil is not a means, but an end. The culmination of evil is pure, not for money or for any other purpose. Creating evil and manifesting evil itself is the only pursuit.

The evil of the clown is such a pure evil, not for anything else. He just wants to create "higher taste evil" for this city. According to Heath Ledger, compared with the clown, even the anonymous crimes in "The Seven Deadly Sins" are not regarded as "high taste evil" because There, there are too many additions to evil.

Just like Batman is a knight who strictly observes justice and morality. The clown is actually an evil Puritan. In his eyes, crimes committed for money, power, sex, or any other purpose are actually blasphemy against "evil", and evil is pure only in his hands.

In the hands of the clown, evil and chaos become a work of art. He sway evil like a painter or a musician. So from beginning to end. Regardless of the circumstances, he maintained the arrogance and pride of being a demon.

At first glance, the behavior of the clown in the script seems crazy and chaotic, but Heath Ledger is not difficult to analyze that this character has a fanatical pursuit-breaking everyone's bottom line.

This is a crazy character!

After closing the script, Heath Ledger sat quietly on the head of the bed and thought for a while. For the past ten days, he has been considering whether to answer or not.

Frankly speaking, he didn't like superhero movies, so because it was Batman, he hesitated to the present, but the name Duke Rosenberg and the character script he sent were very attractive to him.

In Hollywood, how many actors do not want to collaborate with Duke Rosenberg? That often means a big harvest in career, fame and money.

Heath Ledger is no exception, so he did not directly reject the role.

Thinking about it now, he made a decision.

Picking up the phone, Heath Ledger dialed a number, "Marathon, I want that character."

His agent, Mala Buxburgm, said immediately, "I will contact Charles Rowan and let the crew arrange your audition as soon as possible."

The voice on the phone was a little excited, no agent did not want to be the agent of the superstar.

The news quickly reached Duke. Although the project did not start formal preparations until July, it has passed the review of the Warner Bros. Review Committee. There will be no obstacles to the establishment of the "Dark Knight" project.

Duke told Charles Rowan a few words, as long as the preparations are officially started, Heath Ledger’s clown audition will be arranged first, so as to give him more time to figure out the role.

But as in the past, Heath Ledger is only the first choice for the clown, not the only choice. After all, no one knows whether the current Heath Ledger can meet the requirements of this role.

In addition, there is also the double-faced Harvey Dante, and Duke also asked Nicholas Cage’s agent to contact Nicolas Cage’s agent. He was probably notified by Sophia Coppola in advance, but he did not see any character scripts and other related content Under the circumstances, Nicholas Cage accepted the audition invitation without hesitation.

Similarly, even for Sofia Coppola’s sake, reaching out for Nicholas Cage, he will not be the only choice. If he is in the worst performance state and cannot meet the requirements, Duke will also Will not use it.

In this regard, there is no shortage of actor candidates. Some news of Batman's second installment will inevitably spread. For example, Hugh Jackman, Ryan Phillips, Levi Schreiber and Josh Lucas are all through the agency. People handed over the message, expressing their interest in the role of prosecutor Harvey Dent.

As the project is about to be established, Warner Bros. has also started some targeted publicity to let fans know that Batman’s second part is about to start shooting.

In mid-June, someone revealed on instant sharing and multiple film and television websites that "Penguin" Oswald Chesterfield Kobot would appear in this new Batman, and he initiated a very interesting The most influential voting activity for actors, Bob Hopkins won the absolute advantage of the votes.

Probably Warner Bros. had public relations beforehand. Bob Hopkins said in an interview that he was very willing to play this role and was looking forward to working with Duke and calling him a "dream director."

This news has fermented on the Internet for a long time, and even triggered discussions among Batman fans and comics fans.

It was not until the news reached a certain level that Duke declared through his instant sharing account that he did not have the idea of ​​"Mr. Penguin" enabled.

Although this disappointed some Penguin fans, it had a sufficient publicity effect.

"Penguin is not suitable to appear in the movie, a bit far-fetched."

In the office, Duke and Anna Prinz, Hannah Serena, John Schwarzman and others are discussing some of Batman's matters, especially the role that Duke focuses on. "This film A clown is enough."

"The setting of this character..." Anna Prinz was holding a clown concept drawing drawn by Hannah Serena, "It's seriously out of the comics."

"Strictly speaking," John Schwarzman said, "After reading the script, I think the whole movie has no comic style anymore. If it weren't for Batman, it wouldn't even have much to do with superhero movies. Relationship."

"So, John, you have to pay attention to the style of photography." Duke thought for a moment and said, "Photography should be darker and more realistic, and it looks more like a cop film."

As he said, he reached out for the clown concept image held by Anna Prinz, and said to his art director, "Try to make the clown's costume and makeup look shabby and sloppy to avoid him looking like a comic. For the refugees in China, the overall design should highlight the sharp and neurotic side of this character."

"I understand." Hannah Serena pointed to the concept map and said, "This is just a draft. I have carefully considered it. Based on the comic characters, I will learn from the popular masters of counter-traditional culture. The style of Pete Doherty and "Father of Punk" Iggy Pope."

Duke nodded and said, "This is also a way of using comical performances to disguise the character. My purpose is to unearth the character's deeper realism characteristics. For this character, dress up as a'clown'. 'It can be regarded as a gorgeous reproduction of the flame of life to some extent."

Throughout the movie, the Joker is more brilliant than Batman. To a certain extent, Bruce Wayne is more like a super dragon set.

As time enters July, a series of audits by Warner Bros. have been completed. Duke’s team has assembled again. Even Christian Bale has started training again. Batman already has the conditions for setting up the project.

Immediately after the Independence Day holiday, Warner Bros., DC Comics and Duke held a press conference for the establishment of the "Dark Knight" project. (To be continued...)

ps: On weekends, get up late. . . .