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First, it was the untimely demise of actor Heath Ledger. Then, Christian Bale arrested for…uh, nobody’s really sure what. And now…Morgan Freeman in a car accident.

But those aren’t even the half of all the untoward things that have happened to people associated with the movie:

• 3rd Asst. Best Boy Grip was once audited by the IRS!
• the very day of the film’s premiere, a standby Foley Artist (West Coast) got a hangnail!
• supporting actress Maggie Gyllenhaal stricken with an odd extra vowel in her last name!
• on 4 separate days, cast & crew members who had eaten from the craft services table became sick afterward!
• Gary Oldman was talked into appearing in the cheesy 1998 film-version of “Lost in Space“!
• during filming, Michael Caine fell victim to an unforeseen hangover!
• despite the film’s immense success, to this day – no one outside the Warner Bros. studio lot knows who the hell writer/director Christopher Nolan is!
• the CGI/Special Effects Supervisor who oversaw the helicopter-crash sequence hasn’t worked in Hollywood since (of course, he doesn’t deserve to! Did you see that awful sequence? It ruins the film!)
• the composer has been unable to get the Theme from “The Flintstones” out of his mind since scoring the film!
• MAD Magazine unable to get any advance access to “Dark Knight” film, screenplay, or photos for the purpose of doing their satire of it — despite the fact that DC Comics owns both Batman and MAD; and their offices are in the same building! (Oop, waitaminute: that happens with EVERY film based on DC characters; file this under “Being run by DC Comics-CURSE” instead of “Dark Knight-CURSE”. Sorry for any inconvenience.)

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