Movie Posters: The Dark Knight (08 HQs Movie Posters)

Music

Batman Begins composers Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard returned to score the sequel. Composition began before shooting, and during filming Nolan received an iPod with ten hours of recordings.

Their nine-minute suite for the Joker is based around two notes. Zimmer compared its style to that of Kraftwerk, a band from his native Germany, as well to bands like The Damned.

When Ledger died, Zimmer felt like scrapping and composing a new theme, but decided that he could not be sentimental and compromise the “evil [performance] projects”.

Howard composed Dent’s “elegant and beautiful” themes, which are brass-focused.

The Dark Knight was ranked the 15th greatest film in history on Empire’s 2008 list of the “500 Greatest Movies of All Time”, based upon the weighted votes of 10,000 readers, 150 film directors, and 50 key film critics.

Heath Ledger’s interpretation of the Joker was also ranked number three on Empire’s 2008 list of the “100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time”