Anthony Michael Hall’s TDK Character Scooped

Posted by Neil Miller (neil@filmschoolrejects.com) on August 21, 2007

Do you feel like we’ve talked enough about The Dark Knight yet? Nah. Back in the day I speculated that TDK would be the most talked about movie of all time and it seems that we are well on our way to that. To go along with the Spy Report that we posted last week, we’ve got some news around the mysterious involvement of Anthony Michael Hall. Warning, here come some spoilers.

Hollywood Chicago has scoop from the set of The Dark Knight that goes as follows:

Hall’s character plays an investigative reporter for the GCN, which was photographed on Aug. 19. The scene shot that day, which is about three-fourths of the way into the film, goes like so.

Hall’s character is intensely jealous of Bruce Wayne. He even has an exactly matching Lamborghini Murcielago.

The character learns of Bruce Wayne’s true identity as Batman and plans to use the GCN to blow the whistle on him. My source describes Hall’s character not as a villain but as an antagonist.

Of course, the Joker is the true villain. Out of fear that the Joker will lose the object of his game-playing affection, he sets out to stop Hall’s character by calling in a bomb threat to the TV station.

The bomb threat causes widespread havoc. The move is designed to steal the attention off the character so he can’t issue the Batman-revealing report.

So Anthony Michael Hall is playing a reporter who sets out to expose the identity behind Batman and ends up getting tangled in the Joker’s twisted game. I can dig that. Hall wasn’t really fit to play any major Batman villains, so he will work just fine as a sidebar antagonist.

To prove that he was really on the set, the Hollywood Chicago’s source sent in a few pictures of Bruce Wayne’s Lamborghini:

The Dark Knight will be in theaters on July 18, 2008.

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