When Steve Karel has left "Office" In 2011, the show immediately struggled to maintain its high quality in the wake of the loss of a man who so unforgettable Michael Scott. The actor left at the end of season 7, but up to that point, he established himself as a starvet of the Bonafide movie, starred in the "40-year-old virgin" in 2005, before making some of his biggest Chinese hits, from the 2008 Get Smart to "Despicable Me". But at that time, the actor seems to have also had ambitions to move away from comedy and family price, playing Batman's most notorious enemy.

According to VultureKarel is rumored to be running for the Joker's part in the "Batman starts" by Christopher Nolan's "Dark Knight". Although it was never confirmed that the actor was actually considered the role, as early as 2005, Karel told the total film magazine (through Digital spy), "I would like to play the role. If it's either John Penn or me in line, then I want a calculation to prove which one is a better actor. At the time, Paul Bethany, Mark Hamil and Laci Hulme were reportedly in mind the role that eventually went to Heath Ledger. Whether Karel was completely serious when he said he was interested, it remains unclear, but in the years after leaving the "office", he took every opportunity to demonstrate his dramatic chops in films such as "Beautiful Boy" and "Foxchatcher", so it would not be completely unbelievable that he was foreseen in the 2005 year.

Of course, at that time, Karel still built his profile and will continue to act in more comedy hits before splitting into more serious roles. However, it is interesting to think about how his career and the "dark knight" would be different if he was actually thrown as a clown of Nolan crime.

"Dark Knight", which proved to be too good to ignore the box officeHe arrived in 2008, just as the "office" hit his step after several rocky initial seasons. At the same time, Steve Karel drove high in his career. Before 2005, he mostly played supportive roles in comedies such as Bruce Almost and Anhorman, along with the contribution to the Daily Show segments. But the "40-year-old virgin" cemented the status of the Starvala, which was reinforced only by his main role in the "office" (which began the same year).

Posted in 2005: "Batman begins". The huge popular reboot of Christopher Nolan's franchise Franchise Batman has revitalized a new generation's captain and, as such, a guaranteed sequel will be the upcoming. The following year, Nolan began to consider casting that tracking, and in August 2006 it was announced that Heath Ledger lowered the role of the Socker in what would eventually become the "dark knight". Although the news was originally filled with trembling between fans and the press, Ledger, who used his self -doubt to fuel his actingIt proved to be an inspired choice, eventually conquering the posthumous Oscar for his depicting the clown crime - a display that at the same time became a pop cultural phenomenon that still produces Memili to this day.

Even the "office" paid tribute to Ledger's performance and its impact on culture during the cold open for the episode of the season 5 "Employee Transfer", where Dwight (Rhein Wilson), Kevin (Brian Baumgartner) and Creed (Creed Braton). The episode aired in 2008, the same year debuting "Dark Knight", and as such was more than respect for the film's popularity, rather than healthier with Karel's original desire to play the character.

No matter how difficult it is to say what it could have been, Steve Karel as the Joker would be a really interesting move for actor and Christopher Nolan to do. First, he will give Karel a chance to show each other a lot before catching everyone out of guard with his unreasonably nasty performance as the 2014 millionaire's killer Johnon Eleuere Du Pont in Foxcatcher in 2014. But Karel as a Joker would surely make the "Dark Knight" as a completely different movie, given that so many of the film is defined by Heath Ledger's performance.

When "Dark Knight" was developing, initial concept art It emerged that showed a version of the Batmen enemy that was even worse than what we eventually saw in Ledger's performance. The spiritual, scarred face shown in art suggested that Nolan is not against going after midnight with Batman for 15 years before making Matt Reeves Gotham's "Seven" version of David Fincher with Batman in 2022. In the universe where Karel was actually on the run for the role, would Nolan get closer to this horror joker, burying the actor under enough makeup to make Colin Farrell's transformation for the "penguin" to look simple to donate false mustache and cups? It is obviously impossible to say, but again, given the aforementioned crate of the performance of Karel's Foxcatcher, I must say that it would not be all against seeing man as a truly dark okeroker.

There is also an undeniable comical talent of man, who would inform a large part of his portrayal of Batman's biggest enemy. We know that Karel had no problem with that aspect of the character, but it would be fascinating to see how he could take out all the clowns, Michael Scott, the possibility of his comedy in order to give the socker the wicked edge he is looking for. Of course, all the work could have been a disaster. Unfortunately, we never found out what Steve Karel Joker might look like, and unless Ams Gun recruts man for his growing Universe of DCIt will probably stay that way.