The new Joker

Seems official, they picked the actor who will play the new Joker in the next installment of Batman, which will be a sequel to the prequel, and apparently will undermine the first Batman, which already portrayed the Joker as the baddie du jour:

In the upcoming Batman prequel sequel The Dark Knight, the Joker will be played by Heath Ledger.

And the original Joker was played by none others than Jack Nicholson.

Those are big shoes to fill. I still consider Nicholson's as one of the best villain roles ever.

Returning for the next episode in the series are director Christopher Nolan and actors Christian Bale (in the title role), Michael Caine, and Morgan Freeman.

I'm pretty confident it will be a good movie, but I feel like the first two Batman movies, directed by the genial Tim Burton, were great and should have been left alone.

Undermine episodes three and four, which nobody liked and everyone thinks were stupid, so you also make a statement for other directors, "You make crap, we'll try to erase it from our collective memories," but leave the good ones alone.