What happened to Conroy and Hamil?
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blakinsey — 14 years ago(October 27, 2011 04:26 PM)
I really don't think that they sounded that similiar. Conroy and Greenwood both had deep, calm voices but that is where the comparison ends. Dimaggio's joker voice is nowhere near Hamill's since his is way deeper. The only similiarity might be in the laugh at times, but then you can also argue that any other actor who has portrayed the joker sounds similiar too. Just because Nicholsn and Ledger also had crazy laughs would you say that their laughs sounded similiar?
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blakinsey — 14 years ago(October 27, 2011 07:35 PM)
Thank you endenkton. I respected both Greenwood and Dimaggio for not trying to copy their predecessors and doing their own thing.
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Iceman_x21 — 14 years ago(October 28, 2011 10:49 PM)
My problem with Dimaggio was that it reminded me too much of one of the random characters he does for Futurama. Not opposed to someone other than Hamil being the Joker but Dimaggio is not someone I'd like to see takeover the role.
Besides Hamil is wanting to retire from voicing the joker, in fact a while back he said that Arkham City would be his last hoorah. (edit: just saw the video, and it mentioned this, and the fact that he has since recanted)
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Iceman_x21 — 14 years ago(October 28, 2011 11:54 PM)
In fact my leading candidate for the voice of Joker would be the same guy who played the role in "The Batman", Kevin Richardson. If you haven't already seen/heard his performance you should check it out, he appears in the first episode which is available.
http://dcbeyond.kidswb.com/video/The-Batman/The-Bat-in-the-Belfry/8200 ed89-0e09-427a-9b81-4b7f57e88b53
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blakinsey — 14 years ago(October 29, 2011 10:42 AM)
The video just makes reference to an alleged twitter post though. It is actually me in the video. I did like richardson's voice and the new design but I know it gets a lot of hate from people.
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morphion2 — 13 years ago(June 25, 2012 12:34 AM)
nobody seems to have actually answered the OP's question with any kind of citation or evidence, and I am curious myself. Was it that Conroy and Hamil weren't available? Did the producers deliberately decide they wanted to go in a different direction with the actors? What's the story?
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morphion2 — 13 years ago(June 25, 2012 07:56 PM)
Fair enough. Sorry, I wasn't implying that Kevin Conroy is the be-all and end-all of Batman's voice, I actually think Greenwood did a great job (and DiMaggio too for that matter).
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Vivi87 — 13 years ago(August 10, 2012 12:52 PM)
Surprisingly, I actually enjoyed John DiMaggio more than Mark Hamill's Joker here. He combined the hilarious, silly nature from Mark Hamill's Joker and the new nihilistic, psychopathic, embracing-death Joker from Heath Ledger to create a very scary interpretation.
Don't misunderstand though. I love Mark Hamill's Joker. He and Kevin Conroy's characters have great chemistry but I hope to see more of John DiMaggio voicing the Joker in the future.
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captkirk_459 — 13 years ago(August 12, 2012 09:46 AM)
Nothing. They wanted to do a animated film that was not connected to the Batman animated series. That is why they got different voices for Batman and Joker. Remember Jason Todd was not in the animated series. So they did not want to connect this to it. Besides Bruce Greenwood was a very good Batman and John Dimaggio was a great Joker.
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james-cynthia6780 — 13 years ago(November 05, 2012 03:14 PM)
I agree with you captkirk. As long as Batman and the Joker have been portrayed on television and in movies be it animated or live action, there's always been different people portraying them and their voices but that does not make me dislike their characters . After all, the Joker spoke with a Spanish accent when portrayed by Cesar Romero, but that didn't take away from the Joker character and I enjoyed his performance all the same.