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Roger · 08-10-2007, 03:20 AM

^^Yea, if the joker is not in on it, none of the other villains play jokes like that except for the riddler. Then again, it could be a confusion with catwoman but I highly doubt it. I like how it seems all these movies are truly linking up to one another creating an ultimate batman collection and experience.

DangerousInc · 08-10-2007, 03:26 AM

Only Selina Kyle (who becomes Catwoman) is at the end of the movie. The vigilante is supposed to be Edward Nygma (Riddler).

DangerousInc · 08-11-2007, 09:10 PM

Minutes ago, the capacity crowd at Wizard World Chicago was treated to the first look at “The Dark Knight” – the much anticipated sequel to fan favorite “Batman Begins.” With actors Christian Bale, Gary Oldman and Aaron Eckhart on hand along with Nolan and screenwriters Jonah Nolan and David Goyer, DC Publisher Paul Levitz led the crowd through a spirited and secretive Q&A before getting to a sneak peek at the Dark Knight’s most recent on-screen battle with his arch nemesis, The Joker.

Fans were only allowed to see it once, and while it might be some time before the footage will be released to theaters across America, Wizard Universe was on hand to witness the action and give a full report.

The footage started with a silhouette of a dark figure in front of one of Batman’s armored vehicles before quickly cutting to Bruce Wayne and Alfred delivering the brief lines heard in the “Dark Knight” teaser trailer.

“Some people just want to watch the world burn,” advises Alfred before the camera jumps to Batman in action on the Batpod, the new iteration of his motorcycle.

The action built up as the Joker was seen in full for the first time with a mess of white face, smeared red lipstick and sweaty, straggly green hair. Apparently, the clown prince of crime gets arrested at one point in the film, as the montage presented Jim Gordon (complete in SWAT gear) at the Joker’s booking, saying, "no prints, no ID, custom clothes, no tags.” The clown smiles with what appears to be blood over his face from the inside of an interrogation room.

Checking back in with Bruce Wayne, the billionaire playboy has a brief scene with Eckhart’s Harvey Dent where he says “Rachel’s told me everything about you.”

“I truly hope not,” responds Wayne.

The footage sped up at that point into an intense montage of action, featuring the following clips:

- The new batsuit rising up from a trap door in the ground and held in a chain metal case.

- Rachel Dawes (played by Maggie Gyllenhaal) close to an unidentified man either kissing him or being threatened by him as the camera rotates around them.

- The Joker and Batman battling in close quarters (possibly a hospital room). Batman throws Joker over a table and crashing into the ground while the clown smiles at him. It should be noted that the Joker was done up in his signature purple suit.

- Plenty of big, bold Batmobile action including a shot where the tank-like car drives through a wall of flame. In fact, flames were pretty much everywhere in the footage as it appears Joker does actually make the world burn.

- There is also a shot of a somewhat grim-faced Joker walking across a city street mercilessly firing a machine gun as well as a television close-up of the Joker laughing hysterically.

- Two major additions to the speculation that Two Face will appear in the film came in the form of a single shot of a spinning 50 cent piece and the final image: after the action montage has slowed down, the camera cuts to a bartender looking at Harvey Dent, whose only onscreen presence is his left shoulder and a bit of a reddish-purple scarred neck. “Dent! I thought you were dead!” the man gasps, to which Harvey replies, “Half.”

**StoneColdJedi™** · 08-12-2007, 01:15 AM

So were you there Inc.? Becuase I sure as hell was. As much as I would love to see some of the footage pop up online, security was so tight that they had security from Warner Bros. shipped in using night vision goggles to look for anybody filming. Cell phones, cameras, audio recorders, etc. were banned. They handed out 1,200 wristbands and some cool T-shirts (new logo with glow in the dark "HA HA" all over the front and Wizard World Chicago on back). I wasn't able to get one of those but used my charm to get in.

DangerousInc · 08-12-2007, 01:51 AM

No Im extremely envious of you! Lucky SOB!

If I could have I would have been there but my wife is going to have our son anyday now.

T-Shirts from the event.

**StoneColdJedi™** · 08-12-2007, 02:15 AM

Congrats on the kid

One of those T-shirts is already up on eBay... for $61
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=150150503825

DangerousInc · 08-12-2007, 03:00 AM

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Originally Posted by StoneColdJedi™

Congrats on the kid

One of those T-shirts is already up on eBay... for $61
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=150150503825

Thank you and Im not surprised about it being on ebay...anything for a quick buck or $61!

OwenRocky · 08-13-2007, 10:49 AM

I want to see that teaser so bad.

**StoneColdJedi™** · 08-13-2007, 07:08 PM

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Originally Posted by OwenRocky

I want to see that teaser so bad.

Unless you were there, you will never see that kind of cut again... unless Nolan puts more into it in the full trailer. He said they are exactly 50% done filming so they will probably incorporate some shown on Saturday in the theatrical trailer with stuff from the remaining filming.

**Killswitch** · 08-13-2007, 09:21 PM

Here's a possible spoiler, I believe this is true because I read this on latinoreview.com but then all of a sudden the page was mysteriously taken down!

Spoiler below:

I have one gem of a Dark Knight piece and hopefully, I'll be able to publish it very soon. It's a corker. It's something people really want to see...

In the meantime, I missed the Latino Review piece and have been asking around, looking for some idea of what they had originally posted. This is the best I can do at the minute, but please, please, if you have any more info, please let me know. Obviously, this is a post jam packed full of spoilers, and if you're at all worried about that, don't read on. At all.

The police get rather distracted by the 'fake Batman' I told you about before.

Harvey Dent is 'Two Faced' by The Joker. It happens rather late in the story, but there's still time for him to seek revenge.

Batman prevents Two Face from killing The Joker, and this is when Dent finally goes utterly nuts.

The Joker manages to get Batman's identity out of Rachel Dawes, but Bruce uses the fake Batman to his advantage to confuse The Joker and get away with it.

Dawes dies.

http://www.filmick.co.uk/