Geoff January 22nd, 2008

Our thoughts and prayers are with the Ledger fam­ily. So sad to see some­one so young and tal­ented die.

The Dark­est Knight January 22nd, 2008

I am a huge Bat­man fan, if not the biggest, one of the biggest! I can’t believe that Heath Ledger has died! It is shock­ing but above all it is extremly sad! My thoughts and prayers go out to his fam­ily and dear friends! It is hon­estly extremly sad that this has a occured, an actor who I had no con­fi­dence in as being the Joker was restored when I saw that trailer. It is sadding and over­all depress­ing to know that an actor that was reach­ing his peak would end his life in such a ter­ri­ble way. My one ques­tion is did they fin­ish film­ing this movie he was going to be in?

destruct26 January 22nd, 2008

And yet another bright star burns out. RIP Heath. We all are going miss you.

Dad day January 22nd, 2008

Please some­one, let me know, will the Dark Knight will be still on? Is a extreme big loss on this. Heath was truly a great actor, he con­vinced us as a gay cow­boy and now he con­vinced us as a mul­ti­ple homi­cide clown.
May he rest in peace..!!!

Isi123 January 22nd, 2008

Im so shocked!!! We’ve lost a great tal­ent and i cant describe how i feel. My con­do­lences go to heaths fam­ily and friends. RIP Heath!

bru­tus January 22nd, 2008

It’s a tragedy that Heath has died. Mul­ti­ple news out­lets are blam­ing his role in TDK, say­ing that he got so involved in the joker & it’s such an intense, sadist char­ac­ter that he couldn’t break away from play­ing him when they stopped film­ing in Nov. & he’s had prob­lems sleep­ing since.

I like the Bat­man films & have been a fan since I was lit­tle & first exposed when the first film came out in 1989. Even though Bat­man is my all time favorite super hero, I’m not lik­ing the direc­tion this new fran­chise is tak­ing. The first movie was ok (despite Katie Holmes & Chris­t­ian Bale’s lisp when speak­ing as Bat­man), but this series is TOO dark. These films are not let­ting up, there’s no hap­pi­ness shown; all of the char­ac­ters are mis­er­able. By no means do I wish for the films to degrade to the level they were at after Michael Keaton & Tom Bur­ton left, but this new series is too severe.

If Heath Ledger was both­ered by his char­ac­ter so much that it could of con­tributed to his using pills to help with his sleep dis­or­der; pills that may have caused his death ACCIDENTALLY, I’m ques­tion­ing weather I’ll even see this movie or encour­age friends and fam­ily to see it either. If the movie is this dis­turb­ing then I’d rather not see it.

David January 22nd, 2008

I think like every­one it is a hor­ri­ble tragedy, a tal­ented actor when he was one of the best of his generation.

I know a lot of peo­ple are think­ing ‘what hap­pens with the third Bat­man film’?

Lets not for­got in the long run that isnt a big deal. Remem­ber this was a young tal­ented actor and father and he is dead. So what I am say­ing to the few who worry about what hap­pens with the third Bat­man film is that the real tragedy is that he is dead not that the sto­ry­line might change or they will have to get a new actor to play the joker.

R.I.P. Heath

Arroyo January 22nd, 2008

The Joker is dead…
He will be missed…

The movie (The Dark Knight), in my opin­ion, will become much more Beau­ti­ful and Sad at the same time, because of the fact that this will be the last, great per­for­mance of Heath Ledger and NO ONE can even try to replace him as the Joker, even though I have had only seen trail­ers of the movie…

This will be the Great­est Joker to live…

Rest in peace…

Ascribed1 January 22nd, 2008

Its always ter­ri­ble when some­one as young as he was dies –
its more tragic when they had so much left to be and to. That said I’ve been annoyed by the fact that since Heath Ledger’s pass­ing was announced is that peo­ple on var­i­ous film news sites and the Bat­man com­munnity were hav­ing panic attacks over the sta­tus of the movie 1st than focussed on the real­ity
that the actor who played The Joker is dead.

the dude January 23rd, 2008

shock­ing

destruct26 January 23rd, 2008

Upon what i have heard and read, it seems very clear what hap­pened. The facts so far: He appar­ently he had prob­lems stay­ing sober in the past. Im going to assume they were refer­ring to alco­hol. He had prob­lems with his mar­riage, and unfor­tu­nately, led to a seper­a­tion, in the mid­dle of shoot­ing tdk, mon­thes ago. The role of the Joker took its toll, men­tally, as far as sleep pat­terns are con­cerned. He fin­ishes the movie, yet does another one and is drained by all the stress and has 2 hrs of sleep a nite and takes a pill that only lasts an hour, per­haps some­thing to relax him­self. His body could have built up a tol­er­ance for some time. Then he calls a masseuse, which would explain his state of undress when they found him. Then, before the masseuse arrives, he took some pills to relax even more so, and the rest of it unfolds. No foul play or evi­dence of a sui­cide note. Im not an inves­ti­ga­tor, and try­ing not to assume any­thing here but the facts given, so i could be mis­taken, but it seems clear that it was just an acci­den­tal over­dose based on a plethera of events that built up for this guy for months– and ended in plain sim­ple tragedy. I hope he didnt feel much pain. Im sure he was a hell of a guy. The scari­est part is that if what I explained is actu­ally the case– well, it really could hap­pen to any of us that way. Thats life, my friends. Not to sound ironic, but it seems the jokes is on him At least a part of him can live on through his daugh­ter, i mean thats some­thing, right?

matt January 23rd, 2008

This news is unreal, watch­ing The Dark Knight trailer is very dis­turb­ing. Heath was a great actor and from what i under­stand por­trayed the joker as true to the comics as pos­si­ble. He was a mas­ter of his craft, and hope­fully this role as the Joker did not con­tribute to his trou­bles, I dont think any­one will ever know. The Bat­man books are of course just fic­tional sto­ries, but i think that peo­ple who fol­low it and are such strong fans, under­stand the story because it has aspects of real suf­fer­ing, real pain, and true life. Heath was so com­mit­ted to his craft he may have hurt him­self in this role. I guess no one will ever know.

Lara January 24th, 2008

You know I didn’t even really know about this film com­ing out until I heard about Heath Ledger being found dead (I don’t really watch TV or go to the movies ). So when I found this out, and read some quotes from Ledger him­self talk­ing about how men­tally dis­turb­ing it was to play such a sadis­tic and hor­rid char­ac­ter (The Joker), I thought two things at the same time: this must be a very dark and dis­turb­ing movie, and I feel the same way that bru­tus does; and also that the inten­sity of Ledger’s play­ing and “becom­ing” his char­ac­ter just shows how ded­i­cated and tal­ented of an actor he was. That ded­i­ca­tion was I guess bit­ter­sweet because while it lead to an incred­i­ble per­for­mance in the role it might have also led to his death. I am only hop­ing it was acci­den­tal.
Also, my sis­ter and I were dis­cussing how fright­en­ing it is that doc­tors just freely pre­scribe these poten­tially lethal med­ica­tions to peo­ple. I don’t think these drugs should be taken by so many peo­ple so fre­quently.
Any­way, Broke­back Moun­tain was one of my favorite movies, and Ledger blew me away in it. May he rest in peace.

JC January 24th, 2008

To Bru­tus,

Aside from the fact that many of us Bat­Man fans are deeply sad­dened by the loss of Heath Ledger, you say the films are too dark. Have you read the Bat­man comics or nov­els? They are dark. He is a dark char­ac­ter, cre­ated by fear, loss, and tragedy. He lives to per­son­ify the good his par­ents put forth into the city, and he has no time for much else.

I say this new series has hit the nail on the head.

Whit­neyB January 27th, 2008

I have to say that I too was shocked by the news. Im not really a fan of Heath but I thought his work in most of his films were great. Never thought I would see Broke­Back Moun­tain and fall for char­ac­ters. It was really that good and just to know that such tal­ent has left is tru­ely sad. I can not believe it. I am soo deeply sad not only for him but for his fam­ily and his lit­tle girl. God Bless that lit­tle child. As far as the film (The Dark Knight) I have to agree that the trailer looked a lit­tle dis­turb­ing. Im kind of afraid to see it, but one thing is for sure it looks like Heath played that damn part well. Com­mend him on his ded­i­ca­tion to the craft and I will con­tinue to pray for him (b/c I know I feel it in my heart that he is in a bet­ter place) and his fam­ily. Almost feel like cry­ing. Gosh and I didnt even know the guy per­son­ally and it kind of hurts. Despite the dark­ness of the movie I will defi­nantly go out and see this. sup­port great talent.

sara July 23rd, 2008

RIP.…..I feel bad for the lil girl she will never know her father :’( MY prey­ers are with you

Sri­ram August 2nd, 2008

I wept at the news of Heath’s death, even before watch­ing the movie. But now, after watch­ing DK, I feel he is des­tined to leave earth after giv­ing the best per­for­mance the world had ever seen and will see. The Joker’s char­ac­ter can­not be matched by any­one else, not even him…

Oh god, don’t get stunned by Mr. Joker. Have a place for him in the heaven.

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