Check out the latest website tied into next summer's sequel to 'Batman Begins', "The Dark Knight." The Gotham Times has four pages of news in The Caped Crusader's hometown and includes pictures of some of the castmembers in next summer's Bat-pic.
They include Aaron Eckhart (Assistant DA Harvey Dent, soon to be AKA 'Two-Face') a young gang shooting victim named Gina (not sure how she fits in to the story) and of course, Christian Bale (as Bruce Wayne). [check out Jeffrey's interview with Mr. Bale when he dropped by our studio to discuss "Rescue Dawn." He talks a bit about Batman and about lots of other stuff.]
The articles detail things from ADA Dent's public call for help in fighting police corruption, details of a gang war breaking out in the wake of Gotham's top mob guy Falcone's demise (Tom Wilkinson in BB), and the gossipy outrage over playboy billionaire Wayne's nonstop carousing.
It seems like this site, along with the many other viral web pages that have popped up recently to promote 'TDK', are meant to fill in the blanks for the time between the events at the end of BB (Batman Begins) and TDK (The Dark Knight. I love Acronyms!).
Do yourself a favor and read through all four sections carefully. There are a bunch of fun little extras buried in the text. Keep an eye out for a 'Correction' the paper had to run regarding a personals ad placed by someone with a sick sense of humor.
Oh, and click on the tear on page 1 (left side) which takes you to the Joker's twisted take on today's headlines. Thanks to another film-related website Cinematical.com for showing me what I missed the first time.
And if you want really want to get involved, go to Why So Serious.com and follow the instructions. This site has been having fans follow directions as part of an online game. Give it a whirl and let us know where it leads and what you get out of it, if anything.
I like how Warner Bros. is handling the web marketing for TDK. Its clever and much more interesting than the usual boring 'film synopsis/cast bios' formula most studios do. That's so boring and does nothing to engage the audience in the movie and its mythology. And Gotham is nothing if not mythic.
But all this Bat-talk has me itchin' to see new footage from the movie. Outside of that first, very early trailer that leaked out late summer after the Wizard Comic Convention, there hasn't been much to see in terms of video.
Of course, one of the big things regarding TDK is that director Christopher Nolan is shooting key parts of the movie with IMAX cameras, including the Joker's big reveal (can't wait to see Heath Ledger in this role). Here's a link to an IMAX TDK Featurette that will debut with Will Smith's "I Am Legend" on Dec. 14.
It will reportedly show the first five minutes of the movie, so if you're a Batman fan, hopefully you live near an IMAX theater.
