that's not funny

Well, I wasn't going to post anything about it until it was officially announced but it sounds like a pretty sure thing that Heath Ledger will be playing The Joker in the next Batman movie. Favorite, rumored runner-ups of mine were Hugo Weaving (who was Agent Smith in The Matrix and Elrond in The Lord of the Rings) and Paul Bettany (who was Silas in The Da Vinci Code and played as Geoffrey Chaucer in A Knight's Tale, also starring Ledger). Hot off his Oscar nomination for Brokeback Mountain, Ledger is quite a talent. Plus he's the right age for Christian Bale's Bruce Wayne/Batman. To my knowledge he's never played a villain, yet I don't doubt his ability to be sinister; but can he be maniacal? In my mind Jack Nicholson will always be the Joker, he made it his own, and although his performance was a little corny it was maniacal. The corniness may not have been his fault however, to me the Burton Batmans have always possessed a campy edge to them, though not nearly as much as the 60s TV version or the later films starring Val Kilmer and George "I ruined Batman" Clooney.
Director Christopher Nolan has given a new spin to the legacy of Batman. He showed both sides of Bruce Wayne in great detail and it added so much to the story. Ledger will be just fine as the Joker, possibly better than Nicholson, as long as Nolan and his writers do Bats' favorite nemesis the justice they did the Dark Knight in Batman Begins. No word yet on a title for this one, I've got a few ideas bouncing around but nothing that grabs me, anyone got a good Batman vs Joker title?