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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2008: #24 The Dark Knight

Published on October 12, 2012

#24. The Dark Knight

Director: Christopher Nolan
Writers: Christopher and Jonathan Nolan
Producers: Christopher Nolan, Charles Roven and Emma Thomas
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures

The Gist: With the help of Lieutenant Jim Gordon (Gary Oldman) and District Attorney Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart), Batman has been making headway against local crime…until a rising criminal mastermind known as The Joker (Heath Ledger) unleashes a fresh reign of chaos across Gotham City.

Fact: This might just be Heath Ledger’s last screen performance.

See It: This might be the more promising superhero movie out of the bunch (Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk).

Release Date/Status?: Waiting for Paramount and Universal to introduce tin and the green man first, Warner Bros. Pictures is placing this in the middle of the summer: July 18th.

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).