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New Dark Knight Trailer Debuts, Comic Con April 20th, 2008

The long rumored, new Dark Knight trailer was aired at the New York Comic-con yes­ter­day, and it is expected to arrive at your local the­ater in the next cou­ple of weeks — when the inter­net gets it is anyone’s guess, though I imag­ine we’ll get a grainy boot­leg shortly before a high-definition download-able version.

MTV have pro­vided a trust­wor­thy descrip­tion of the trailer if you can’t take the wait,

— After a breath­tak­ing shot of Bat­man perched high above Gotham, a voiceover from Heath Ledger’s Joker asks “Where do we begin?” Bat­man glides through the city.

- “Kill the Bat­man,” the Joker states to an adjoined meet­ing of mob bosses, before an explo­sion is shown and the sub­se­quent show­ing of a Joker card. This seem­ingly gels with the sus­pi­cion that the Joker is con­trol­ling the mob through ran­som (after rob­bing the mob-run bank in the IMAX preview).

- After sev­eral shots of Har­vey Dent in Dis­trict Attor­ney mode, we finally get every­one together as the Joker invades a fancy bash with Bruce Wayne (Chris­t­ian Bale), Alfred (Michael Caine), Har­vey Dent (Aaron Eck­hart) and Rachel Dawes (Mag­gie Gyl­len­haal). Sadly, the scene wasn’t topped off by the Pen­guin crash­ing through the floor on a giant duck.

- “The dawn is com­ing” says Dent in a voiceover.

- The Joker mut­ters “Here we go” before walk­ing down a city street blow­ing stuff up in one par­tic­u­larly awe­some scene.

- In one of the most fore­bod­ing moments of the trailer, Dent emphat­i­cally states “You either die a hero or you live long enough to see your­self become the vil­lain.” Har­vey Dent, of course, back­wardly ref­er­enc­ing his future trans­for­ma­tion into super-villain “Two-Face.”

- Our eyes may have been play­ing tricks on us, but it cer­tainly looked like the Joker drops Dawes at some point. The length of said drop is uncertain.

IGN have also been there, tak­ing pic­tures, with some spec­tac­u­lar Bat­man and Joker figures:

And Wash­ing­ton Square News got the low down on The Dark Knight Scare­crow action figure:

Scarecrow Action Figure in Box

Close up of Scarecrow Action Figure

Comments 4 Responses to “New Dark Knight Trailer Debuts, Comic Con”

Aladdin Sane April 20th, 2008

Trailer sounds sweet and that Scare­crow looks to be just the repack­aged fig­ure from the Bat­man Begins line. What I wanna see is the Scare­crow and Demon Bat­man that the Four Horse­men are work­ing on for the 6-inch release.


Ryan April 20th, 2008

I think the email that every­one got from Lt. Gor­don prob­a­bly has to do with the reveal of the new trailer.


Mikey May 3rd, 2008

There was this scene wherein a tank of gas spills on the floor then Har­vey Dent is on the floor face down scream­ing, “NO!”


Andrew January 18th, 2011

i saw the scene where joker is crash­ing the party and bat­man vio­lently takes his thugs out cool!