New Batman Posters – thread is potentially spoilery!

Oh, that is superb. The only one I’d seen so far was the excellent “fire in the building” one. The Joker one is great, too (although it’s kind of eerie seeing a “new” Heath poster). Well, in fact, they’re all great – it’s a nice theme (although I’m still not keen on the “Batpod”). It would seem to suggest that there’s going to be plenty of playing about with themes of duality and identity – which is good, because it’s one of the best things you can do with Batman.

Am I right in thinking there’s a new trailer due very soon?

I think this is going to kick the arse of every comic book movie since the second Spidey, frankly.

Incidentally, there’s a new deluxe edition of The Killing Joke just been released. While it’s far from Alan Moore’s best work, and not without its flaws, it’s pretty much essential reading if you want to get a handle (in advance) on the kind of Joker that Nolan is going for. I reviewed it here, but my basic prognosis was that while it’s well worth having, and the new recolouring job is lovely, it’s simply too short to justify an expensive hardback edition – so instead I’d recommend tracking down a copy of the original paperback, which you can get for around six or seven quid, I think…

As you say, I think all the focus on The Joker is hiding something massive. Personally, I don’t *fully* expect a transformation for Harvey in this movie and I’m hoping that all the noise The Joker stuff is generating will hide any surprise until people actually witness it in the cinema. I need to see this film AS SOON as it comes out.

I don’t think it’s gonna suffer from too many villains. Surely Dent isn’t a villain at all in this installment?

I really want the Joker to die now that Heath Ledger won’t be around to reprise the role. They may have already had that planned, who knows, but originally I so wanted them to keep him alive, have him thrown in Arkham and then have some Arkham Asylum-inspired action in the third movie

As for how he’s gonna be portrayed in TDK, I seem to remember Nolan saying they were aiming more for the early ’40s Joker as opposed to The Killing Joke. Of course, they’ll have their own original take on him as well. What we can be sure of is we ain’t gonna get a toned-down played-for-laughs Joker. He is obviously the brutal, sadistic homicidal maniac he always should be!

I’m sure I read that the plan was for Joker to get captured in movie 2, then have a relatively small role in movie 3 with Batman checking in to try and get info on Two-Face (who would be the main villain in movie 3), and possibly something bigger in movie 4 if they got that far.

With that all out of the window, who knows what they’ll do – I wouldn’t bet on them having the footage to do a Joker death scene, but I suppose it’s not impossible.

Is that the same planet Poochie came from?

http://www.whysoserious.com/happytrails

Wow they really have gone to town with the advertising, haven’t they?

Click on the “www.gothamtimes.com” in the corner and that takes you to a newspaper, you can click on the “Ha” in Gotham which brings up a Joker-vandalised version of the newspaper.

I wonder how deep the rabbit hole goes…

I rewatched Batman Begins today and I was struck with just HOW much I love that film. I remember it being excellent, but I don’t remember enjoying it as much as I did today. I think a lot of that is to do with the fact I’ve caught up with Year One, Long Halloween and Dark Victory since my last viewing, so I had a much more solid grasp of the universe.

My anticipation of the new film has now reached fever pitch.

There is a whole bunch of posters here.

I think you’ve probably seen most of them already, but there might be 1 or two you missed. I quite like the last one on the bottom right and the batbike/lawmaster scene bottom left.

That’s… fantastic.

God, this is just about the best movie marketing campaign in history, isn’t it?

Yeah, I like the makeup idea – it means that the way it (apparently) deteriorates over the course of the film makes him look much fucking creepier. Although I do hope they keep in some element of there having been an accident that causes him to go nuts and become disfigured – which I think they are. They’re just taking away the “bleached skin” aspect. Which is fine.

Yes, I’ve heard about the post-credits scene, and I will be sticking around for it tonight :-)

What’s funniest is when you have a film that you think should have an end credit sequence, but doesn’t, so a few people wait around, obviously waiting for something more and… nothing.

But to be honest, except for things like the Simpsons, where everyone knew that there would be an end credits sequence after the other in credit sequence, after the first week, so few people stay for these things. PotC3 is an example – so few people watched that it was unreal.

I like to do that, too. It gives you a chance to reflect on what you’ve been through before returning to the “real” world. It’s kind of like leaving the film behind gradually, rather than immediately and all at once. A chance to linger a bit in the mood of the film.

http://www.whysoserious.com/happytrails/trailer.htm

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>PotC3 is an example – so few people watched that it was unreal.

I’d imagine they wanted to get out of the cinema as quickly as possible.

Nothing’s confirmed, apart from the fact that he IS Two-Face earlier in the movie than people first though. With Dent engaged to Rachel Dawes and The Joker rumoured (not confirmed) to kill her and burn Dent’s face, it seems both Batman and Two-Face are gonna be hunting The Joker at the end.

Which classic Batman characters would you like to see in the third film? I think Vicki Vale and Oswald Cobblepot(Penguin), even though they were both prominent in the Burton films. Barbara Gordon should maybe get a role too. Would they dare bring in Dick Grayson??

I still think Rachel should somehow have been Talia al Ghul!

> and The Joker rumoured (not confirmed) to kill her and burn Dent?s face, it seems both Batman and Two-Face are gonna be hunting The Joker at the end.

This new trailer add some credence to that, since the Joker is talking about giving the city a villain. Looks like his ‘creation’ of Two-Face is going to be more pre-meditated than a random face burning.

Red Herring. It’s a Red Herring. There’s no such bloody thing as a “Dead” Herring.

Besides, y’know, herrings that are dead.

I do. I’m just not as familiar with it as others might be.

Edit: Oh, ha ha.

Download the Quicktime version and pause it at 2.03… you don’t see much, but you see enough…

Also, is that Two-Suit I spot?

Has anyone had their “Joker” piccie taken yet, by the way?