The Dark Knight
DC2008
The Dark Knight (2008)
Batman, Gordon and Harvey Dent face the Joker’s campaign to corrupt Gotham. Its comic connection is a synthesis: familiar characters and ideas are combined into a new cinematic story.
- Director
- Christopher Nolan
- Produced by
- Emma Thomas, Charles Roven, Christopher Nolan
- Starring
- Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Heath Ledger, Gary Oldman
From screen to page
Shop related comicsComics behind the movie
The Dark Knight combines ideas from more than one period of the comics, so its source material is better read as a group than as one direct adaptation. Start with The Long Halloween #1–13, then compare it with Batman #1 and The Killing Joke. The additional references below broaden that trail into the characters, continuity and ideas surrounding the film.
Connection: Crime-saga synthesis
