Christopher Nolan Says The Joker Will NOT Show Up In THE DARK KNIGHT RISES

There was a crazy rumor the other day that director Christopher Nolan might use extra footage from The Dark Knight or take the CG route to resurrect Heath Ledger‘s The Joker for THE DARK KNIGHT RISES but Nolan told Thompson on Hollywood that it’s NOT True! There! That should settle it once and for all
When asked what role Tom Hardy will play in this third Batman installment, Nolan only said that his Inception star will play a ‘key role’..

Nolan, bearded and affable, explained that he’s scrambling to finish the script for The Dark Knight Rises, his third Batman movie, which he’s writing in collaboration with his brother Jonathan, mostly from his oceanfront abode in the Paradise Cove trailer park in Malibu..The script is due in January for a July release. But he wouldn’t say what the story’s about or who the villain is, other than to confirm that Inception’s Tom Hardy will play “a key role, not saying good or bad,” and to shoot down reports that he’ll resurrect The Joker by including unused footage of Heath Ledger’s performance in the previous chapter. “That’s all wrong,” said the writer-director, who’s also producing the next Superman movie, for Zack Snyder to direct.