I love when movies & such do little interactive user website stuff. Although, I hate when I miss them. It is now 100% confirmed that The Joker will be in the new Batman movie and he will be played by Heath Ledger. In a promotional effort there were two websites that were made. The first one I Believe in Harvey Dent is a campaign for Harvey Dent, who will be in the new Batman feature, The Dark Knight. Another website, I Believe in Harvey Dent Too, was released which if you caught it during initial launch was slowly revealing an image of Heath Ledger as The Joker.

Admittedly I do not reach much in the way of DC Comics, and the most that I know about Batman comes from Batman: The Animated Series. On the surface, however, I always noticed how goofy and over the top Batman’s Villains were, and how he played the straight man in this whole Drama that was Gotham. I thought that contrast was always very interesting, and liked his more outlandish villains more than anything else. The Joker has always seemed a caricature of himself, but I suppose that was to try to lighten the violent sociopath nature of the character. He always seemed a little more silly than sinister.

This image looks like a much darker approach to the character, at least visually. But not seeing the green hair does a lot to keep the image seem straight. I’m sure once the bright green locks are thrown on top it will seem a little different. I can only hope that this movie explores the darker side of the Joker, cause I suppose that would be interesting. I wonder how violent they are going to make him. Also, will Harley Quinn be in the movie as Dr. Harleen Quinzel, I think that would be truly awesome.

What excites me the most is that they have re-cast Maggie Gyllenhaal as Rachel Dawes. This is great news, as I thought that Katie Holmes was particularly awful in this role and brought the movie down a bit. That’s pretty ballsy of them to re-cast the same role when the movies have been made so close together, but I am glad they are taking the risk.

All in all, I am pretty excited about this venture.

In other promotional news, I hear they will be releasing 40,000 Silver Surfer U.S. Mint approved quarters. I saw this on the Fantastic Four 2 movie MySpace page. I am still not sure what to think. So far it seems legit, but that’s crazy. I hope to be able to get my hand on two so that I can put them in a little coin collection frame. Man that would be awesome.

So I will ask you, my readers, to help me out. If for some reason you get your hands on a Silver Surfer Quarter, please consider me. Obviously use it for the contest or whatever, but then if you lose, can I please have it Also if you have any news on the legitimacy of this, let me know. I’m still slightly skeptical.

P.S. My site was looking horrid in Internet Explorer, which I didn’t realize since I don’t use IE. I know I know, bad web designer! I should have looked. But I think I have fixed it