Warner Broth­ers have today released a slew of pro­mo­tional images for a num­ber of their upcom­ing films. Two of these were Dark Knight related, the first is Bat­man atop the Bat-pod. The sec­ond was that shot of the Joker which donned the front cover of the recent Empire mag­a­zine. Now in high res­o­lu­tion with­out the “Empire” text.

These three pro­mo­tional shots (one of which we have seen before, but clouded with cover page texts) come via Comics2Film. I par­tic­u­larly love the last image, which at first glance appears to be unre­lated, until you notice the mask.

As some of you are aware, The Dark Knight movie will be pre­ceeded by a multi-part animé story, sim­i­lar to the way that the Ani­ma­trix worked — although as of late details about this project have been in short supply.

Just Press Play have a brand new screen cap via the lat­est Wiz­ard Uni­verse issue, illus­trat­ing one of the new animé sto­ry­lines, it does look incred­iby awesome.

For the low-down on the six short films in the animé I rec­om­mend read­ing our older post, pre­vi­ously thought to be lost in the depths of our archives. The DVD is set for a direct to video release close to July, but we should see a lot more of the Gotham Knight before then.

We all like to see high res­o­lu­tion pic­tures, today I have two of them for you. The first is a whop­ping 300dpi 100mb ver­sion of the teaser poster. To illus­trate the detail of a pic­ture like this, here’s a fully sized extract:

The more astute will have noticed a link to this file on Why So Seri­ous. It appears to the bot­tom right of the nor­mal sized picture:

Down­load 100mb poster image

(beware, 100mb down­load may take a while!)
If this link suf­fers under the traf­fic, etc, here is a handy mir­ror site: Alter­nate Download

Next up we have the medium-to-high res­o­lu­tion ver­sion of that Empire mag­a­zine cover thanks to David:

Down­load (only 420kb this time)

Update: Bat­sean has been to the bak­ery to get his cake…

The note says:

“Wow, you really took the cake! Now, put the icing on it: call (phone num­ber) imme­di­ately from this phone and THIS PHONE ONLY. Do NOT give this phone num­ber to any­one else.

Let’s hope your fel­low goons come through as well as you. Once all the lay­ers are in place, you’ll all get your just desserts. I’m a man of my word”

Step Right Up

The count­down on the lat­est why so seri­ous viral mar­ket­ing puz­zle has come to an end, and revealed the final challenge.

www​.whysose​ri​ous​.com/​s​t​e​p​r​i​g​h​t​up/

Hang­ing from the stall in front of you are, as of now, 6 cud­dly toys, although not at all cute. Each of them has a loca­tion pinned on, a loca­tion that, by instruc­tion, you must travel to and not call.

The instruc­tions also ask you to go under the name “Robin Banks” (aka Rob­bing Banks) at each of these places, with “One per loca­tion, first come, first served”. It seems that each of these is a bak­ery store, with the prize being some­sort of bak­ery delight with an attached phone num­ber. Some of the bears are already start­ing to dis­ap­pear, and with each new dis­cov­ery the mal­let on the left hits a lit­tle harder.

Hit­ting the base of the machine used to invoke a pathet­i­cally small rise of the weight, not even enough to light the first level.

These pro­mo­tional pic­tures come via Uru­loki which is get­ting pretty ham­mered at the moment. After all that viral mar­ket­ing we get some­thing truly reward­ing via some­thing com­pletely unre­lated… not sure if these promo pics were leaked early or not, though they come at a time when lots of pub­li­ca­tions are get­ting their Joker fix on. These are spread­ing like wild­fire, as fast as those other con­tro­ver­sially leaked screen cap images we briefly saw a few months back.

With­out fur­ther adieu, here are Bat­man and The Joker, pos­ing beau­ti­fully for you:

EDIT: Sorry folks, looks like the images are being pulled down! Hence they are gone from here too.

Along with Empire, Wiz­ard have a super hero themed issue which dons a glo­ri­ous front cover pic­ture of Heath Ledger as The Joker:

Click to em’biggen.

The Empire arti­cle itself also con­tains a new Bat­man pic­ture of Bruce Wayne admir­ing the new bat-suit. For those inter­ested in read­ing the arti­cle, but are unable to pur­chase a copy of the British pub­li­ca­tion, a typed out ver­sion can be found on SHH, Empire Arti­cle. This is an extract from the Empire inter­view with Chris Nolan:

“The way Bat­man Begins ended was intended not so much as sequel bait,” Nolan insists, “but to cre­ate a level of excite­ment at the end of the movie. Ulti­mately, the sequel hap­pened because we got caught up in that process of imag­in­ing how you would see the Joker go through the prism of what we did in the first film.”

And how is the Joker seen through that prism? “Inde­scrib­able, really, Not to sound eva­sive — it actu­ally is quite dif­fi­cult to explain, but all I can really say is Heath’s not doing any par­tic­u­lar thing, he’s inhab­it­ing the char­ac­ter in very much the way I’d hoped from a psy­cho­log­i­cal per­spec­tive. He really cre­ated some­thing that I think is going to be quite terrifying.”