THE KILLING JOKE/ re-coloring/ Heath Ledger:

[meek-minx]

Does anyone know whether Heath Ledger read the TKJ version colored by John Higgins? Or if he read the newer re-colored version done by Bolland . .


Just that I'm writing a paper about the original coloring vs. the newer version,
(its effects psychologically, why people prefer one over the other, etc).
And I want to compare that with how it may have effected Tim Burton's approach vs. Nolan's more realistic approach in TDK.
I'm also not sure if the comic book was re-colored AFTER Nolan's movie or not.

yup, anyone know anything about it?

[JohnShil]

The Deluxe, re-colored edition was released March 2008. Ledger died in January.

[meek-minx]

ah i see, so the deluxe was definitely made after the movie.

makes me wonder if Bolland based his re-coloring off the movie then, then again, he said himself that's how he had intended the coloring to be from the beginning.
thanks by the way.

[Vidocq]

Ledger actually didn't read any comic. He was asked too but he didn't like the medium. He says so in an interview.

http://www.iesb.net/index.php?option...3691&Itemid=99

And I've heard that Bolland never liked the coloring in the The Killing Joke and he given a chace to change it. It didn't had anything to do with The Dark Knight.

[meek-minx]

Oh! ok that does make sense, lol. -I read somewhere else that he even hated the typical comic book movie, so it seemed strange he would sit through reading from a genre he usually disliked. (Though I think his main reason for liking TDK instead was because it was much more realistic).
Thanks for the link/ info. ^^

[Mat001]

Originally Posted by meek-minx

Oh! ok that does make sense, lol. -I read somewhere else that he even hated the typical comic book movie, so it seemed strange he would sit through reading from a genre he usually disliked. (Though I think his main reason for liking TDK instead was because it was much more realistic).
Thanks for the link/ info. ^^

Yes, that's accurate. He had liked "Batman Begins" quite a bit and when the meeting with Nolan took place, he agreed without reading a script as he had confidence in Nolan to make a script that was worth while.

[Ghost Shark]

I hate the fact that they took the yellow oval away.

[mgs]

Originally Posted by Ghost Shark

I hate the fact that they took the yellow oval away.

I think each edition has has coloring changes, so many that it's very confusing and hard to tell which one came out when, I believe, is what I've read about this.

[mofo]

can someone post pictures?

[year_zero_123]

you can buy the killing joke deluxe edition really cheap off ebay http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...m=180307670907