Warner Bros was "worried" about Heath Ledger's Joker not having backstory in 'Dark Knight'

Late Hollywood actor Heath Ledger’s performance as Joker in Christopher lan’s Dark Knight (2008) is considered as one of best depictions of DC Comic character. Although villain h many shes in film, his origin story was t shown to audiences. w one of writers of movie revealed that re was tension among production and distribution studio, Warner Bros. Pictures, for t displaying Joker’s origin story.

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Joker t having an origin story in Dark Knight was worrying

In a recent interview during Comic-Con at Home, David S. Goyer, who co-wrote Dark Knight with Christopher lan, talked about concern Warner Bros. h on Heath Ledger’s back story as Joker. He recalled time when y were talking about, ‘Well, what if Joker does t really have an origin story?’ writer mentioned that even after success of Batman Begins (2005), ir idea was considered a “very controversial thing,” and y got a lot of pushback. Goyer ted that people were worried at time.

Heath Ledger's Joker was introduced in Dark Knight without having a backstory on how he became villain. clown prince of crime narrates different versions of his root story. One hinted that he suffered from domestic violence, while ar suggested that he faced parental abuse. However, changing narratives depicted unreliability of Joker.

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Back in 2012, Christopher lan opened up about Heath Ledger’s portrayal of Joker in Dark Knight, in an interview with a magazine. He said that Ledger’s interpretation of Batman nemesis has always been “absolute extreme” of anarchy and chaos, effectively. He is pure evil through pure anarchy.

filmmaker also stated that what makes character terrifying is to t humanize him in narrative terms. lan mentioned that Heath Ledger found “all kinds of fantastic ways” to humanise Joker in terms of simply being real and being a real person. He ted that y did t want to humanize him in narrative terms, y did t want to show his origins, show what me him do things he is doing because n he becomes less threatening.

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Sly, Heath Ledger could t see his performance and love that it earned from audiences. On January 22, 2008, actor passed away due to accidental overdoes, at of 28. It was months before  Dark Knight was released and received critical as well as commercial success. Ledger was posthumously awarded Best Supporting Actor at 81st Acemy Award for his performance as ' Joker'.