New 'Dark Knight' Poster Unveiled on Viral Website
Filed under: Warner Brothers, Comic/Superhero/Geek, Posters
This impressive-looking new (final?) poster for The Dark Knight recently appeared on the film's fun viral website, WhySoSerious.com. If nothing else, it has to be the most intimidating piece of advertising we've seen for a modern comic book movie. God bless Christopher Nolan for refusing to make anything about this franchise remotely cartoonish. How the hell Batman actually imprinted the flaming bat signal onto that skyscraper, I'm dying to know.
The website also contains a note reading "Four Days," which presumably means that one more trailer will appear on Monday, April 28th. (At least, that's what the folks at ComingSoon.net speculate, and I tend to agree.) If I didn't feel duty-bound to watch it, I probably wouldn't: this is one of the few summer flicks I'm dying to see unspoiled. Nolan makes movies, not frivolous money-making throwaways, and I think The Dark Knight will be no exception.
My favorite piece of Dark Knight artwork, by the way, remains this international poster (the first one, not the second), which was my desktop background for quite a while. It really seems to capture the essence of these new movies.
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4-25-2008 @ 9:15AM
Chupacabra said...
I doubt that Batman put this flaming bat on the building. It seems more like something the Joker would do to attract his attention.
Reminds me of Fight Club.
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4-25-2008 @ 9:46AM
The Addict said...
This is entirely speculation, but contains things people may consider SPOILERS.
I think that's Bruce Wayne's penthouse that he's been living in since Wayne Manor burned down. The Joker found out who he is somehow and torched the place. This is just me, but I'm really hoping he kills off Rachel Dawes to get this information. That way they can also introduce Vicky Vale or Selina Kyle as a love interest, none of this childhood sweetheart bull.
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4-25-2008 @ 10:03AM
George Egan said...
That international poster still is my background... But now I'm tempted to change it.
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4-25-2008 @ 10:27AM
Greg Holkan said...
Yeah, it's unlikely that Batman set fire to the side of a building. It probably is the Joker or what-have-you making a joke out of the bat-signal.
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4-25-2008 @ 11:13AM
michaelyoung41 said...
OK it seems obvious but I have to say it.
Evokes 9/11? You don't make a poster like this without atleast being aware that the bat symbol creates damage that looks eerily similar to the twin towers.
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4-25-2008 @ 4:47PM
Eric H said...
Oh totally I see a building still standing and automatically think of the twin towers... Eerily similar my ass.
4-25-2008 @ 5:47PM
michaelyoung41 said...
Obviously I'm talking about the towers before they fell. Maybe they thought it would be more viral if it evoked something a little provocative.
4-25-2008 @ 11:53AM
Mr. R said...
I will play the geek here, maybe it's the Two Face lair, he was a politician. I am eager to see this, way, way more than any other movie this summer. You just know you wont' be disappointed.
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4-25-2008 @ 12:56PM
Chris Vaughn said...
One of the most badass posters I've seen in a while!
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4-25-2008 @ 1:31PM
nicely said...
It was a great reveal, a text came to my joker phone (from the April Fool's viral effort - clowntravelagency.com) saying not to worry about Lt. Gordon (the operation slipknot efforts from this week - www.gpdmcu.com/operationslipknot) that it was "all part of the plan" then the new viral page was whysoserious.com/itsallpartoftheplan. Amazing! I can't wait to see what happens in 4 days....and of course for the 7-18 :)
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4-25-2008 @ 3:39PM
RC said...
"Welcome to a world where Batman BLOWS SHIT UP."
http://bitsmack.com
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4-25-2008 @ 4:02PM
A-Sauce said...
Best Poster Ever...........
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4-25-2008 @ 8:04PM
Jim said...
Interesting to notice...on the viral site this come from? The "its all part of the plan" one? You see pictures of presidents with their faces done up all Joker like. At first I was puzzled by why the selection, but then I saw that one of them frames did not hold a picture of a former president. Instead, it's the picture of Roger Garcetti from the Gotham Times. Its the bellow Teddy Roosevelt, which is in turn below the Joker card that links to the poster. Look for that frame to be the link to whatever is happening in "Three Days."
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4-26-2008 @ 1:02AM
variant said...
That picture is Woodrow Wilson. Click on the pictures and read the what is in CAPS. TRAIL and ER. Enough said. Definitely getting a trailer!!
4-27-2008 @ 6:24AM
Tommy said...
Oh yeah, I really really really LOVE this movie poster and I can't wait till this movie hits the big screen. It's gonna be awesome!
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http://www.bat-blog.com
Thanks, Tommy
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5-15-2008 @ 12:53PM
Serge said...
Does anybody else can see a person tied up in the center of the flaming bat? or is it just me?
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