Christian Bale as Batman in The Dark Knight (2008)
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DARK KNIGHT Footage at Wizard World Con
By: Jarrod Sarafin, News EditorDate: Sunday, August 12, 2007
Source: Wizard
Hah, trust it for our friends over at Wizard to do a step by step breakdown of the Wizard World Chicago Convention footage shown by Warner Bros... There may be no video footage to post yet but columnist Kiel Phegley at Wizard Universe did write up a nice summary of the DARK KNIGHT footage shown at their convention this weekend. Actors Christian Bale (Bruce Wayne/Batman), Aaron Eckhart (Harvey Dent/Two Face), Gary Oldman (Lt. Jim Gordan) and director Christopher Nolan were on hand at the convention to unveil more details about the upcoming sequel to BATMAN BEGINS. Earlier this summer, Nolan & Warner Bros unveiled a "teaser trailer" with dialogue going between character Alfred, Bruce & Harvey.
Here's the breakdown by Keil over at Wizard:
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 rashing 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.”
If our friends at Wizard or Warner Bros put up the video coverage of the event, I'll pass it along to you.
