So, according to Cinematical (and countless other film blogs this week), the next Batman movie will be called The Dark Knight and will star Heath Ledger as the Joker.
Heath Ledger. The Joker. Well, somebody’s sure joking around. I dunno – seeing Ledger play a villain would be kind of cool, but I’m not sure the guy has what it takes to pull off the Crown Prince of Crime. So far word on the street is that Nolan is going super-dark with his Joker, which is good, but Heath flippin’ Ledger? How not-dark can you get? The guy’s a good actor, sure, but the darkest I’ve ever seen him was in The Order, which was a great movie but didn’t really make me tremble at his darkness. Meh. We’ll see.
Whatever. Let the Brokebat Mountain jokes begin!
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I'm the Director of the Games and Simulation program at Miami University in Ohio, where I am also an Assistant Professor in the College of Creative Arts' Emerging Technology in Business and Design department. I'm also the director of Miami's Worldbuilding and Narrative Design Research Laboratory (WNDRLab). I have a Master's in Comparative Media Studies from MIT and a PhD in Media Arts and Practices from the University of Southern California.
In past lives I've been the lead Narrative Producer for Microsoft Studios and cofounder of its Narrative Design team, working on projects like Hololens, Quantum Break and new IP incubation; in a "future of media" think tank for Microsoft's CXO/CTO and its Chief Software Architect; the Creative Director for the University of Southern California's World Building Media Lab and the Technical Director, Creative Director and a Research Fellow for USC's Annenberg Innovation Lab; a Visiting Assistant Professor at Whittier College and director of its Whittier Other Worlds Laboratory (WOWLab); the Communications Director and a researcher for the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab; a founding member of the Convergence Culture Consortium at MIT (now The Futures of Entertainment); a magazine editor; and a award-winning short film producer. more »
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