The Dark Knight: New Poster!!

This Fuckin' Rocks!!!!!!

Heath Ledger Dead at 28

28-year-old Australian actor Heath Ledger was found dead in his New York City Soho apartment earlier this afternoon. Details are still forthcoming as to the cause of death though police are investigating a potential drug overdose as pills were found in the vicinity of the bed in which his body was discovered. NYPD spokesman Paul Browne tells USA Today that Ledger had an appointment for a massage at the Manhattan apartment believed to be his home. The housekeeper who went to let him know the masseuse had arrived found him dead at 3:26pm.

The very sad and unexpected news has shocked everyone. Ledger leaves behind a daughter, Matilda.

The young actor made a name for himself on Australian soaps and films like "Sweat," "Home and Away" and "Two Hands". He quickly landed the lead in the short-lived US fantasy series "Roar" before hitting movie stardom with such projects as "A Knight's Tale," "The Patriot," and "10 Things I Hate About You".

After a few years of misfires like "The Order," "The Four Feathers" and "Ned Kelly", the actor had a resurrgence with his Oscar-nominated performance in 2005's "Brokeback Mountain" which drew him great acclaim.

His most recent on-screen appearance was the Bob Dylan biopic "I'm Not There", and his final full role will be as The Joker in one of this year's biggest films - the "Batman Begins" sequel "The Dark Knight". Ledger had finished shooting the film, though apparently some audio looping had yet to take place.

Ledger had been shooting "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" in the UK for Terry Gilliam.

RIP brother....

New Dark Knight Trailer!!!!

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The Dark Knight: New Posters and Leaked Trailer!!

Here's some absolutely awesome posters... love the first 2.

There's a new viral site up and running -- ATASTEFORTHETHEATRICAL.COM -- which I figure is for the online release of the trailer, probably on Sunday... but here's a shitty version recorded on a camera phone, and fuck, it still got me hard..... can't wait for this movie!!!!!

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First Six Minutes and Poster of Dark Knight!!!

Here's the newly released teaser poster.... I fuckin' love it!!!!!



Here's a very spoiler filled description of the first six minutes that will be shown in Imax theaters this December.... well in the US at least.

A bank heist is really the only way to introduce the Clown Prince of Crime.

It starts off with a breathtaking shot of Gotham City in broad daylight. The camera swoops into this big glass skyscraper the way only an IMAX movie can. It was stunning. Then BOOM! One of the windows in this big glass skyscraper is blown out. It then cut to two thugs in ugly clown masks (the ones we saw in the first publicity stills that were released months ago) shooting a zip line down to an adjacent rooftop.

Cut to the street as we see another thug waiting on a street corner with his clown mask in his hand. We’re looking at him from behind and can’t see his face. A van pulls up and the thug puts on his mask and jumps in to join the rest of the clowns. The clown who’s driving is bitching about how this Joker guy who planned the heist didn’t even bother to show up and questions why they should cut him in on any of the loot. There’s an awesome line from one of the clowns about The Joker and how he wears make-up as “war paint” to scare the crap out of people. Very cool stuff.

The two clowns in the skyscraper dramatically swing down to the rooftop while the clowns in the van enter the bank guns a blazing.

One of the rooftop clowns disables the silent alarm and comments that the alarm isn’t going to the cops. Once the alarm is halted, his partner shoots him dead.

Cut to William Fichtner.

I was so amped to see Fichtner’s creepy mug. He’s the new Brion James. He’s in everything the way Brion was back in the 80s and he’s as badass as ever. Brilliant casting, Mr. Nolan. Fichtner is the bank manager and he looks pissed.

Then cut to two clowns cracking the safe. Once the one clown gets the safe door open, his partner shoots him dead. We start to see a pattern here. The remaining clown starts to fill the gym bags with cash.

As the clowns in the bank lobby control the crowd, Fichtner goes to work. The bank manager pulls out a shotgun and starts hunting clowns. It was unexpected and super-freakin-awesome. Crazy-ass Fichtner is enraged and ranting on about how these clowns have no idea who they are messing with. You learn that much like the rest of Gotham City this bank is corrupt and run by the mob. Nice twist. Of course
the silent alarm doesn’t go to the cops.

Too bad Fichtner runs out of shells and the remaining clowns shoot his angry ass. He’s down, but not dead.

Then the clowns start to argue with each other. One clown asks the other, “So, I guess the Joker told you to shoot me once we had the money?” The other clown tells him, “No, I’m supposed to shoot the bus driver.”

“Bus driver?” WHAM! A school bus crashes through the front of
the bank, running over the first clown.

The back of the bus opens and the bus driver clown jumps out and helps load up the loot. Then bus driver clown gets capped. One clown left.

Fichtner bank manager then mutters something about there once being honor in the underworld of Gotham and this gets the clown’s attention. The clown shoves a grenade in Fichtner’s mouth with a string attached to the pin. The clown takes off his mask and we get an 80-foot IMAX Heath Ledger Joker face telling us “whatever doesn’t kill us makes us stronger.” It’s chill inducing. People are going to lose their minds.

The Joker jumps into the school bus, closes the back door on the string, and drives off. The pin on the grenade is pulled as the bus pulls away. Instead of an explosion, pink gas is released. The school bus pulls into the street and joins a convoy of school buses loaded with children.

The Joker escapes into Gotham City.

I can't wait to see this... and chuck it onto my iPod to watch it over and over and over!!!!!

Dark Knight News....

Overnight, EMPIREONLINE.COM revealed their exclusive pic of The Joker along with a short interview with Heath Ledger conducted on their TDK set visit.

More viral sites: ACMESECURITYSYSTEMS.COM, GVAFOUNDATION.ORG, and GOTHAMUSD.NET, GOTHAMCAB.COM, GOTHAMCITYRAIL.COM, REMEMBERINGGINA.ORG, WEARETHEANSWER.COM, THEGOTHAMTIMES.COM, THEHAHAHATIMES.COM and GOTHAMPOLICE.COM

The "Why So Serious" viral website has yet another sub-site: WHYSOSERIOUS.COM/MAUSOLEUM. This time, The Joker wants you to crack a safe.

Viral marketing madness.... is this just leading up to what is coming in December???

New Batman Pics...

Whysoserious.com is due for an update soon, at the moment its showing fans dressed up as the Joker - the entries started pouring in after the halloween treasure hunt (pictured above) - the Joker has promised something special for all of us....

See you in December?

Anyway here's a couple of new pics to look at...

Melting

The candle in the jack-on-lantern at WHYSOSERIOUS.COM is slowing melting..................

New Dark Knight Pics!!!!

Most websites have had to take these down... but what the hell, I'll post them anyway. These seem to be leaked from the footage shown at Wizard-con, so here's all 18 of them......

Dark Knight Stuff

Batman's new suit, quite a bit different from anything we've seen before.

A fan made doll of the Joker.... complete with custom made head. If the joker looked this good I'd be more than happy.

I have a feeling this is a fan made version of what Two-Face could look like... much better than the unnatural pink that was in Batman Forever...

The Joker Strikes Back

The site called IBELIEVEINHARVEYDENT.COM is having problems... an error message is displayed, but when you highlight the page, you get the above image.....

... and lurking within is another secret message. "See you in December"

The Joker Revealed!!

The Dark Knight doesn't come out until July 2008, but Warner Brothers is already turning on the marketing magic. The launch a site they called IBELIEVEINHARVEYDENT.COM which is a fake site for one of the film's characters. In addition to that site they have launched a second site from The Joker called IBELIEVEINHARVEYDENTTOO.COM That website features a closer look at what Heath Ledger may look like in the movie.

Some people are criticising it already... man, when I first saw pics of the scarecrow, he looked like shit, but he was goddamn disturbing on screen. I think this will make for one dark as fuck movie.

Heath Talks Joker

The Toronto Sun recently spoke with Aussie actor Heath Ledger who for the first time talked publically about his being cast as The Joker in the "Batman Begins" sequel "The Dark Knight".

"It's definitely going to stump people. I think it'll be more along the lines of how the Joker was meant to be in the comics, darker and more sinister. I wouldn't have thought of me, either. But it's obviously not going to be what Jack Nicholson did" says Ledger.

He adds "It's going to be more nuanced and dark and more along the lines of a Clockwork Orange kind of feel. Which is, I think, what the comic book was after: less about his laugh and more about his eyes".

Meanwhile at the premiere of "Hollywoodland", actor Bob Hoskins was asked by IESB about rumours he'd been approached to play The Penguin in "The Dark Knight". Hoskins seemed genuinely surprised by the question and appeared not to have heard of such an offer. Would he be interested? "Yeah of course...love too" he replied...

The Dark Knight

Chris Nolan has finally spoken publicly about the upcoming film, The Dark Knight. Via betterthanfudge.com, here’s a bit of what the director had to say:

Regarding the theme of the film: “I suppose in loose terms I can say it’s about things having to get worse before they get better.”

Can anything be inferred from the title of the film? “Ultimately yes. But I’ll leave that for people to infer The title has been chosen very specifically. It’s quite important to the film.”

Will The Joker be different that past live-action interpretations? “Yes. I would certainly point to The Killing Joke but I also would point very much to the first two appearances of The Joker in the comic. If you look at where The Joker comes from there’s a very clear direction that fits what we’re doing very well.”

The new Batman movie is due out in 2008

'BrokeBat Mountain'

By now you would have all heard that Heath is playing the Joker in the upcoming Batman sequel, "The Dark Knight".... what is weird is how 'fan-boys' have reacted to the casting - just because it is someone unexpected. We all know Heath can act, is there a bit of hate going on here... ???

Over at Ain't It Cool News:

"god no..."

"Wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong."

"Worst. Casting. In. A. While."
(I find this quote works well if you imagine it being said in the "Comic Book Guy" voice from The Simpsons. Only done without irony.)

"are u fucking kiddin me. people actually think ledger could be the joker...are u fucking serious...whoever thinks this is a good casting choice is a fucking idiot.""hire anybody but Brokebutt Mountain Heath Ledger. What a weird choice. If they cast him, it will ruin the movie"

"'Bizarre' doesn't even cover it."

"Christ almighty, Heath Ledger?? And people sit around and wonder why the BO is in the shitter."

"I heard Heath would only do the movie...if they brought back the bat nipples on the costume.. He wanted to have something to suck when Batman frisk's him. He said the Black Leather turns him on and makes his cock explode with white Joker Juice that he will spread on his skin, to give him the white color he needs for the part."(All class, this guy...)

"I didn't know that the Joker was a gay cowboy."

So, what have we learned? Well, mostly that playing one gay role forever invalidates you from ever playing a role in a super-hero movie. Thank God that the rest of the cast of The Dark Knight have only played staunchly heterosexual characters!

Like Christian Bale! No, wait, he played a gay reporter in Velvet Goldmine. Crap.

Well, there's Cillian Murphy! Nope, sorry, he played a trannie hooker in Breakfast on Pluto.

Let's see...Liam Neeson? No, he was a bisexual in Kinsey.

Gary Oldman! Certainly they wouldn't have the voice of legal authority, James Gordon, be played by an actor who played gay! Damn! Prick Up Your Ears! He played a gay playwright. And Alfred "Doc Ock" Molina played his lover. It's infecting the Marvel universe as well!

So, uh..Alfred is a fairly significant character, right? And Michael Caine is a class-act from way-back. I'm fairly confident that he, at least, has never sullied his resume by playing a queer.
(We'll just pretend that he and Christopher Reeve didn't play murderous gay playwrites in Deathtrap, shall we?)