Will Michael Jai White Return For Third 'Batman'?
Could the Joker’s reign of terror in
The Dark Knight have left behind a survivor after all?
As we all know, Christopher Nolan and his team from the first two Bat-films are hard at work on the third entry of the series. There’s no word yet which villains will appear, which actors have been cast to play said villains, or if any of the bad guys from either
Batman Begins and/or
The Dark Knight will be returning. Lest we forget, the Scarecrow, played by Cillian Murphy, made an appearance in both movies, and if we’re lucky he’ll be back a third time.
But now comes word from Michael Jai White, who played the gangster Gambol in 2008’s
The Dark Knight, that would seem to imply the coffin door on his character may not be closed shut. If you’ll recall, Gambol put a bounty on the Joker’s head, and a group of street thugs came around with his corpse, only it turned out the clown wasn’t as dead as he initially appeared. What followed was one of Heath Ledger/Joker’s most intense speeches, in which he rhapsodized about being scarred by his own father, all the while holding a knife inside Gambol’s mouth.
Then the Joker killed him, right? Actually, here’s what White said in a recent interview with
Comic Book Movie:
"The thing I’ve heard is that my character didn’t die in the movie. It’s up to speculation. There’s a knife that’s in my mouth. I never shot a death scene. The only scene I shot was where he puts the knife in my mouth, and he flicks the knife and cuts my cheek and I go down. But the way they cut away in the shot, and you see me go down, I guess in your imagination I’m dead or something. But if you look at that shot again, well, when did he put it next to my neck? So…"
Having watched
The Dark Knight at least a half-dozen times, I can say that White’s totally correct (although you’d be forgiven for looking away, as the tension gets ratcheted up to some pretty unbearable levels). Admittedly, a throat-slitting scene might have cost the film its PG-13 rating, but it’s more fun to speculate that it was intentional, and Gambol might return in the third Bat-film. What does White think?
"Well, it’s a possibility, I could return like half a Joker," he said.
Personally, if the character does come back, I hope it’s as a relatively-ordinary gangster, as Gotham City seemed short on them by the time
The Dark Knight ended.
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