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Ledger's Joker could be biggest posthumous movie role

AP, las Angeles
Heath Ledger's frenzied reinvention of the Joker had fans and colleagues buzzing. His dreadful clown face was seen online by millions, and stood as the goose bump-raising image upon which nearly all-early marketing of The Dark Knig/if hinged.
Director Christopher Nolan said there will be no changes to the film or marketing of The Dark Knight.
All this, while Ledger was still alive.
Now the Batman archfiend stands as Ledger's next-to-last performance. And while it's not the first, The Dark Knight has already emerged as arguably the biggest movie featuring a posthumous role in Hollywood history.
Major stars including James Dean, Clark Gable, Carole Lombard, Spencer Tracy and Will Rogers had high-profile films released after they died. The deaths of others - notably Bruce Lee and his son Brandon - created an eerie allure that heightened interest in their final films.
Yet none had the magnitude of a comic-book franchise with an illustrious 70-year history, and movies in those eras did not arrive with the fanfare of today. Certainly none had the advance word of a delirious, demented turn by an actor completely re-imagining of one of Hollywood's greatest villains.
"It was punk, it was A Clockwork Orange, it was druggie. It was this
kind of fantastic, anarchic look to him. This character who had absolutely no rules whatsoever," said Christian Bale, who returns as Bruce Wayne and his crimefighting alter-ego Batman. "That's not like any Joker I've ever seen before, what I saw Heath do."
As the sequel to 2005 blockbuster Batman Begins, The Dark Knight already was one of this year's most-anticipated films. Opening July 18, the film's must-see status has only risen since Ledger died of an accidental prescription drug overdose on Janu-ary22.
"More people will come to see it because of his death," said Bill Ramey, founder of the fan website Batman-on-Film.com. "No doubt some people may be apprehensive about seeing it because there may be a little ghoulish factor about it. But I'm betting that more people now kind of look at it as a tribute to him, and the biggest tribute you could give someone is to go see it and enjoy his performance."
When Dean died in a car wreck in 1955, studio executives lamented "there goes the movie," figuring audiences would be scared away from his final two films, said Wes Gehring, who teaches film at Ball State University. To the contrary: Rebel Without a Cause and Giant became blockbusters.
In today's anything-goes celebrity climate, it's doubtful anyone in Hollywood ever felt Ledger's death might hurt the box-office prospects for The Dark Knight, Gehringsaid.
In the days after Ledger's death, fans debated how it might affect the film.
Would distributor Warner Bros, make changes or even delay its release? Would the advertising shift away from its early focus on Ledger's demonic Joker and his mocking taunt, "Why so serious?" Would viewers be able to set thoughts of his death aside as they watch his performance?
Director Christopher Nolan, who revived the franchise with Batman Begins, said he expects the performance will speak for itself, that morbid thoughts of Ledger's death will not affect the way audiences view The Dark Knight.
Nolan, Ledger and their collaborators came up with a wildly different Joker, whose ominous clown makeup seems to have been finger-painted onto his face, an outer portrait of the black and twisted soul within.
Ledger's performance floored two-time Oscar winner Michael Caine, who reprises his role as Bruce Wayne’s butler, Alfred. Caine's first glimpse of the character came when Ledger emerged onto the set from an elevator; in an interview last September, four months before Ledger's death, Caine said he was so startled that he forgot his lines.
"He came out of the bloody lift like a whirlwind," Caine recalled. "They said, 'It's your line, Michael.' 1 said, ’What is it?' Extraordinary. It will be one of the characters of next year, the Joker as played by him.”