No Joking Matter.

"It's definitely going to stump people. I think it'll be more along the lines of how the Joker was meant to be in the comics, darker and more sinister." Brokeback Mountain's Heath Ledger says all the right things about his upcoming turn as the Joker in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight. "I wouldn't have thought of me, either. But it's obviously not going to be what Jack Nicholson did. It's going to be more nuanced and dark and more along the lines of a Clockwork Orange kind of feel. Which is, I think, what the comic book was after: less about his laugh and more about his eyes." And, in related news, Bob Hoskins hasn't heard he might be playing the Penguin, so scratch that one off the rumor list for now.