Batman : The Dark Knight Blog

The geek machine has fired into overdrive for Christopher Nolan’s incoming prequel sequel, The Dark Knight. But the untold hero of this summer’s Batman assault may lie elsewhere — in the Animatrix-inspired Batman: Gotham Knight, to be exact.

Like The Matrix franchise before it, the Batman franchise has learned that filtering your mythology through the kinetic template of anime can do wonders for your upgrades. Batman: Gotham Knight is that upgrade, and it looks kickass. The Warner Bros. DVD-only film, due out July 8, sent Underwire these sneak-peek pics, which make great eye candy. The hi-def trailer is at right.

Perhaps it’s because Batman comes from comics, or perhaps it’s because animated film moves in ways the real world cannot, but live-action adaptations of comics are a mixed bag. Maybe the success of Batman Begins and Iron Man can change that.

But until they do, the animated realm may reign for awhile.

The “Batmanime” mash is already under way. The current TV series The Batman has incorporated Japanese elements for five seasons now, and it is one of the best shows around. Joker is a martial arts master in it, for frak’s sake, as is the chubby Penguin, who has two masked hench-femmes of his own slicing and dicing their way through Gotham City. But that’s kids play compared to what Batman: Gotham Knight has to offer.

“From a visual point of view, this is the most stylized Batman that’s come out of Warner Bros.,” explained Batman lifer Alan Burnett in a press release. “What they’ve done is really eye-catching, and it truly expands his world. Their visualization of Gotham City is stunning, and it’s very interesting to see how they’ve envisioned Batman, his environment and his action and movements.”

The award-winning Burnett’s work is all over Batman: Gotham Knight, as it is in The Batman, Batman Beyond and further back into the Dark Knight multiverse. He served as a story editor for the film at large, and wrote the noirish sixth segment, which features an appearance by the heartless killer Deadshot, whose bullets have so far kept him off of kids’ television.

“I’ve always liked Deadshot as a villain, and I really like stories with assassins,” Burnett added. “The fact that they’re killers, and what they do has impact, automatically heightens the energy of the story.”

Burnett is joined by famed comics scribes Greg Rucka and Brian Azzarello, as well as cinema and TV writers Josh Olson (A History of Violence), David S. Goyer (Batman Begins) and Jordan Goldberg (The Dark Knight). But the new visionaries of this iteration, as with eye-popping, brain-crunching Animatrix, are the mostly Pacific Rim directors hired on to stylize Bruce Wayne’s superego for the 21st century, including Shojiro Nishimi, Futoshi Higashide, Hiroshi Morioka, Yasuhiro Aoki, Toshiyuki Kubooka and Jong-Sik Nam.

It’s by far the darkest Dark Knight ever to hit the screens, large or small.

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here are two picture i’ve find while surfing the net, are they the new Two-Face ?

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It’s All Part of the Plan - The Dark Knight Trailer Hunt on Monday!

April 26, 2008
by Alex Billington
If you live in Boston, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Chicago, Dallas, Seattle, New York, Kansas City, Toronto, San Francisco, or London you will want to read this. On Thursday night we debuted the kick ass new poster for The Dark Knight as part of the on-going viral marketing game. The website where it was discovered was located at whysoserious.com/itsallpartoftheplan/. However, the site hinted that more would be coming and now its been updated. A new viral hunt will take place on Monday, April 28th in those cities mentioned above and this time I know you’ll want to get involved. I’ll bet anyone $10 that they’ll end up at a movie theater in the area where you’ll be shown the brand new trailer (or even more?) in its entirety. Why do I think that? Read on…

Check back here often for updates or changes.

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Considering the strong viral marketing campaign The Dark Knight has had so far, it’s not surprising that the new movie poster wouldn’t just be handed to us.

Instead, it was hidden within the viral site Why So Serious? at this page (click the red lever at top right of the page). Below the defiled portraits, it says “Three days”; when the poster was uncovered yesterday, that notice said “Four days,” most likely referring to the unveiling of the theatrical trailer, which premiered at the New York Comic Con last weekend.

That’s the poster here at right, click for larger view — seriously, click it! That’s one badass poster.
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OPERATION SLIPKNOT

Gotham Police Major Crimes Unit, in cooperation with the GPD Internal Affairs Division, needs you to help track down numerous offenders that are fugitives from justice. Interestingly, we’ve tracked all of these individuals to the same last known location: Gotham Intercontinental Hotel. But we don’t know where they’ve gone from there.

Call the hotel and convince the concierge to ship you a certain package that’s been sent there for each fugitive. Use the provided intel and whatever means you can to convince him that you’re the intended recipient, your travel plans have changed, and he needs to send the package to you. Once received, you should have all you need to fill in the blanks as to that fugitive’s location.

We will add details about additional fugitives as they become available. Time is of the essence, as we have only a short time before the trail runs cold. Your cooperation in this operation will go a long way. Good luck.

Go to INTEL and get the following message -

You should have received your duplicate care packages by now. If not, contact the concierge at the Intercontinental and have him forward you your original package (reference #’s, as always, the total number of letters in your name followed by your last name shifted forward one letter like 15DBOEPMPSP). He’s been instructed to send no-questions-asked if these reference #’s are used. Do NOT contact me.

Bon Voyage!

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