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The web­site Kino has posted some details from an inter­view with the Dark Knight direc­tor Christo­pher Nolan and pro­ducer Charles Roven, sadly how­ever, the web­site is entirely in Ger­man. Not to worry, Bat­man on Film have some inter­preters (oth­er­wise known as Google Trans­late) to work it all out for us non-bilinguals:

As we already know, Bat­man (Chris­t­ian Bale) trav­els to Hong Kong. Pro­ducer Chuck Roven con­firmed [the] Asian trip but would not reveal why Bat­man goes there. “Gang­ster hunt­ing” was mentioned.

The new Bat­man suit will be equipped with “[white] lenses” (some sort of bat sonar equipment).

The pro­logue that will be shown in IMAX in Decem­ber is the first five min­utes of the film.

Here’s a trans­lated quote from Chris Nolan: “[The Dark Knight] is not ‘The Joker Begins’. We did not want to tell how the Joker became what he is.

“In those five min­utes [of the pro­logue], we show how the Joker goes from being a small-time crook to Gotham’s great­est vil­lain. It’s like ‘The Rise of the Joker’.”

Mean­while, com­poser Mel Wes­son, work­ing with James New­ton Howard and Hans Zim­mer on the Dark Knight score, men­tioned the dark theme they were aim­ing to achieve (via Bat­MovieNews):

This is the one I’ve been wait­ing for. Another out­ing for Gotham’s Dark Knight, together with Hans Zim­mer and James New­ton Howard. I began work­ing on ideas in mid Sep­tem­ber ’07, it’s a long sched­ule but it’s good to have time to exper­i­ment and expand the ideas we had on Bat­man Begins into the dark­ness.… don’t for­get ‘Not all jokes are funny’.

It seems our can­dle melt­ing Dark Knight teaser over at Why So Seri­ous is begin­ning to get a lit­tle old and weary with time. Yes, the pump­kin is begin­ning to fray at the edges as rot sets in and the can­dle begins to reach its end.

Well spot­ted all those that sent this in.

EDIT: Right side only it seems, many peo­ple have sug­gested ref­er­ences to Two Face.

The Brazil­ian site Omelette got the scoop on this first, but that’s all in a for­eign lan­guage, so let me explain. The rumor is that in front of IMAX screen­ings of I Am Leg­end, a 7 minute pro­logue seg­ment of The Dark Knight will run. This will not be a trailer, but an entire scene with begin­ning, mid­dle and end.

Accord­ing to Omelette the seg­ment shall fea­ture Heath Ledger as The Joker — a sort of back­ground if you will, run­ning in par­al­lel with the end of Bat­man Begins and the start of TDK. Film ick think that the footage will revolve around a bank heist, which was shot in the IMAX format.

This shall only run in front of the IMAX ver­sion of I Am Leg­end, a proper Dark Knight trailer may instead run in nor­mal cin­e­mas, but that is merely conjecture.

We’ll keep you posted!

This was a turn up for the books. Unlike the well antic­i­pated Chicago demo­li­tion, this explo­sion came com­pletely unprompted and minus the live video footage, heli­copter feed and local photographers.

How­ever, The Lon­don Paper were on scene to cap­ture some images and make a com­pre­hen­sive report, to our delight.

The emer­gency ser­vices were flooded with calls from local res­i­dents who feared the defunct elec­tric­ity gen­er­at­ing plant had been tar­geted by terrorists.

But they were reas­sured the 200ft fire­ball, accom­pa­nied by columns of grey smoke, which could bee seen for miles across the cap­i­tal, was a spe­cial effect for the lat­est Bat­man film.

SPOILER: The spec­tac­u­lar stunt scene, in which Bat­man actor Chris­t­ian Bale nar­rowly cheats death, is believed to be the open­ing sequence of the fifth caped cru­sader movie The Dark Knight.

Res­i­dent Marck Jason, 24, of Bat­tersea, said: “I was gob­s­macked. I was just walk­ing home and saw this bloody huge explosion.

“Obvi­ously my first thought was that it was a ter­ror­ist attack and I dialled 999.

“I know it’s sort of cool that the place is being used for a film, as its a bril­liant build­ing, but a bit of warn­ing wouldn’t have hurt.”

If any­one has more from the scene we’d love to hear from you!

Via Daily Mail

“Bed­ford Today”, a local news web­site, are report­ing that Rory’s First Kiss (aka the lat­est Bat­man sequel) signs have been appear­ing in the Card­ing­ton area once again:

It is believed the secrecy-shrouded shoot at Card­ing­ton involves the mas­sive Gotham City set built in the rear of the shed for the ear­lier movie and left stand­ing afterwards.

The Times & Cit­i­zen under­stands dog-handlers have come over from the USA for one sequence, thought to involve a chase fea­tur­ing the Batmobile.

Via Bat Movie News

BBC News are report­ing that a spe­cial effects tech­ni­cian has been killed in a stunt prac­tice run for an upcom­ing Dark Knight scene, at the Qine­tiq race­track in Sur­rey, Eng­land. The tech­ni­cian had been on a cam­era truck report­edly fol­low­ing the Bat­mo­bile. The fatal acci­dent occurred when the 4x4 truck ran into a tree.

“Warner Bros Pic­tures and the entire cast and crew of The Dark Knight are deeply sad­dened by this tragedy, and their hearts and prayers go out to the fam­ily and loved ones of the deceased.” 

As do ours.

The acci­dent is now being inves­ti­gated by Sur­rey police and the Health and Safety Executive.

The Dark Knight film­ing sched­ule is tak­ing Bat­man to Hong Kong this Novem­ber, where a planned 9 week stint shall take place. How­ever not all peo­ple are wel­com­ing this hero’s arrival, Hong Kong politi­cians have sited the pos­si­bil­ity of traf­fic dis­rup­tions and noise pol­lu­tion as cause for con­cern. For instance, the use of a heli­copter dur­ing night time (2 a.m.) scenes has had politi­cians stat­ing that res­i­dents should pur­chase some ear plugs for the period.

Film­ing is expected to revolve around “The Cen­ter”, the fourth tallest sky­scraper in Hong Kong at 73 storeys.

Source: Reuters, Hong Kong Standard