There have been a bunch of rumours floating around about who’s going to be the one to wear the face paint of The Joker in the next Batman flick. I’ve said it a number of times, I think the very best guy for the job would be Crispin Glover. A few other names have been float around for the role… but none of them seem to measure up to Glover in my opinion.
However, how the name Steve Carrell is being bounced around. This one has my attention and some interesting possibilities. The good folks over at FilmForce give us the following:
Batman-on-Film first reported that Warner Bros. “wants to get someone relatively known, and can do comedy and drama. One guy brought up the idea of Steve Carell … and the studio is starting to like the idea.” BoF adds, however, that “Carell is not one of the actors who are being screentested [for the role of The Joker] this Fall or early Winter.”
IGN FilmForce attended a press junket today for The 40-Year-Old Virgin and here’s what Carrell himself had to say about The Joker buzz. “I just heard that for the first time this morning and I had no… Yeah! That would be hilar– I would love to do that! But I doubt that it’s true. (Laughs) … No, he’s [possibly producer Charles Roven] never said anything about that, so I think that’s probably completely fabricated. But I love it. I love the rumor. That would be cool. (laughs)”
I am a big fan of Steve Carrell… and him as The Joker in any Batman project is a cool idea… but the only problem is that the new Batman has taken a darker, more true turn than the previous versions. And as much as I like Carrell, his inclusion in the project could take us back to the old style comedic Batman and completely undermine everything the Christopher Nolan film accomplished.
