Here are a cou­ple of inter­est­ing things from through-out this week. First up, Yahoo have posted the voice-over Dark Knight teaser video in high def­i­n­i­tion, here’s the link.

Here is another Gotham explo­sion video via YouTube:

Over at the SHH forums Big Engine posted up some inside pic­tures of the Card­ing­ton Hang­ers in the UK, to be used as the set­ting for a fight scene:

And some SWAT stunt footage via Lexwalk (warn­ing the descrip­tion of this video and the video itself can be con­sid­ered a bit spoi­ler­ish):

Mean­while, Mag­gie Gyl­len­haal has been doing some mod­el­ling for Agent Provocateur.

And have a good week­end folks!

And another ver­sion here. Filmed from the Air­Fox heli­copter. The Chicago Tri­bune has a video from an alter­na­tive angle, this time with sound.

…wait­ing for the demolition:

MyFox­Chicago

Dis­cuss the feed and explo­sion in this topic. This topic will have all the lat­est up to date details and screen­shots about the chop­per and building’s status.

You can­not beat this angle. As this is live you may tune in to see the chop­per sit­ting still at it’s heli­port whilst it refu­els, etc: this is a nice lake shot. How­ever it has been encir­cling the build­ing to be demol­ished with some nice zoom­ing in and out which has revealed some prac­tice evac­u­a­tion scenes. As per usual, this live feed will obvi­ously con­tain spoilers.

EDIT: Live Feed now removed.

Hol­ly­wood Chicago have posted the lat­est time frame they have for the implosion:

Wednes­day, Aug. 29 or Thurs­day, Aug. 30 if Wednes­day is rained out. The time is “crit­i­cal for the cam­eras to get the best light­ing on the scene,” my source says. It is now sched­uled to be between 11:50 a.m. and 12:55 p.m. on Wednes­day or on Thurs­day if Wednes­day isn’t the day. My source says “heavy traf­fic due to street clo­sures” should be expected.

A few weeks ago we reported about an upcom­ing and expen­sive action event — the implo­sion of Brach Candy fac­tory site. The ever reli­able Hol­ly­wood Chicago are back with more juicy gos­sip con­cern­ing the nature of the event and most impor­tantly — a date.

The new date is Thurs­day, Aug. 30. It is sched­uled to hap­pen between 10:30 a.m. and noon.

This will be two build­ings. The larger build­ing is to be filled with flam­ma­ble liq­uids and the sec­ond smaller, four-story build­ing will be imploded. This is the last big stunt for the film to be shot.

And to relay the appended infor­ma­tion, the address of this site is 401 N. Cicero Ave. in Chicago::

HC’s lat­est post also dis­closes the nature of this build­ing. See­ing the pic­ture will reveal the spoiler, fol­low this dan­ger­ous link to con­tinue.

Hol­ly­wood­Chicago have posted up the lat­est set of street clo­sures as a result of The Dark Knight film­ing schedule:

“The Dark Knight” Street Clo­sures

Wednes­day, Aug. 22 (weather per­mit­ting)
2 to 4 p.m.
Heli­copter hov­er­ing at 515 N. McClurg Ct.
Inter­mit­tent traf­fic con­trol of Grand between Peshtigo and Colum­bus
Inter­mit­tent traf­fic con­trol of Peshtigo between Grand and Illinois

Thurs­day, Aug. 23
5 a.m. to 8 p.m. (no clo­sures; park­ing only)
Adams between Wabash and Dear­born
Wabash between Adams and Van Buren
Wabash between Adams and Mon­roe
Dear­born between Adams and Monroe

Thurs­day, Aug. 23
8 to 9 p.m.
Heli­copter over Chicago River
Traf­fic con­trol of Lake Shore and Colum­bus Street bridges
Traf­fic con­trol of Wacker between Michi­gan and Columbus

Fri­day, Aug. 25
5 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Full clo­sure of LaSalle Street between Jack­son and Adams
Full clo­sure of Quincy between LaSalle and Clark
Park­ing: Wells between Jack­son and Monroe

Fri­day, Aug. 25 (weather per­mit­ting)
9 to 11 p.m.
Heli­copter hov­er­ing at 515 N. McClurg Ct.
Inter­mit­tent traf­fic con­trol of Grand between Peshtigo and Colum­bus
Inter­mit­tent traf­fic con­trol of Peshtigo between Grand and Illi­nois
(Sat­ur­day and Sun­day as alter­nate dates)

Sat­ur­day, Aug. 25 and Sun­day, Aug. 26
5 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Full clo­sure of LaSalle between Jack­son and Madi­son
Full clo­sure of Jack­son between LaSalle and Clark
Full clo­sure of Adams between LaSalle and Clark
Full clo­sure of Mon­roe between LaSalle and Clark

And to sparkle this post with pic­tures, thanks to Sarah Lewert’s flickr:

Recently a lot of “will they wont they” dis­cus­sion has been aired about the pos­si­bil­i­ties of a Jus­tice League movie; ide­ally recruit­ing Chris­t­ian Bale as Bat­man and Bran­don Routh as Super­man — amongst oth­ers. These rumors were orig­i­nally fuelled by two Vari­ety arti­cles, the first reveal­ing that Warner Bros. were look­ing into the movie’s development,

 “The Jus­tice League of Amer­ica has been a peren­nial favorite for gen­er­a­tions of fans, and we believe their appeal to film audi­ences will be as strong and diverse as the char­ac­ters themselves.”

And the sec­ond enti­tled “Jus­tice League film gets script”.

Husband-wife writ­ing duo Kieran Mul­roney and Michele Mul­roney turned in a first draft that had Warner Bros. suits actu­ally smiling

How would this film­ing sched­ule work in-between TDK and Man of Steel? Would the cor­rect cast be present? These are the ques­tions being asked. The IESB had a chance to talk to Chris­t­ian Bale, he stated cat­e­gor­i­cally that he was not involved in the adap­ta­tion and nor had he been approached. And later Moviehole con­firmed that the WB are look­ing for an all new cast and that the movie was “full steam ahead” with cast­ing start­ing imme­di­ately. They also men­tioned an assigned direc­tor, George Miller (Happy Feet meets Mad Max).

All this seemed a lit­tle con­fus­ing until the final and fit­ting piece of the puz­zle unearthed, how this could be pos­si­ble with­out dis­may­ing fans and whilst aim­ing for an early 2008 pro­duc­tion sched­ule. The IESB have a num­ber of some­what reli­able sources stat­ing that the JLA movie shall in fact be a CGI/Motion Cap­ture film (e.g. sim­i­lar to The Polar Express or more recently Beowulf). This still needs some clo­sure but it all makes per­fect sense. These films tra­di­tion­ally take slightly longer to cre­ate so we could see a late 2009, sum­mer 2010 release.

The first pub­lic unveil­ing of any actual footage from The Dark Knight took place yes­ter­day evening at the Wiz­ard World con­ven­tion. The folks that brought us the news about the TDK event are back once again with all the juicy details. From Wiz­ard Uni­verse, a descrip­tion of the video:

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.

And points to note from the action mon­tage at the end:

• 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 crash­ing 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.”

IGN also have some details about the “siz­zler” trailer whilst claim­ing that The Dark Knight film­ing is now 50% complete,

The Clown Prince of Crime was seen in a prison cell, dra­mat­i­cally speak­ing at the cam­era as if schem­ing some sort of dia­bol­i­cal plot. There were also sev­eral shots of Bat­man and The Joker fight­ing in what appeared to be an inter­ro­ga­tion room — in fact, the Dark Knight can be scene using “bad cop” inter­ro­ga­tion tech­niques, throw­ing The Joker across a table. There is a scene of The Joker danc­ing with Rachel Dawes (played by Mag­gie Gyl­len­haal), rem­i­nis­cent of the way Jack Nicholson’s Joker danced with Vicki Vale (played by Kim Basinger) in 1989’s Bat­man. Finally, there are a num­ber of shots show­ing a war-torn Gotham City — a machine gun-toting Joker fir­ing toward the camera.

While Eck­hart has already gone on the record with word that Har­vey Dent would be mak­ing the change into the dreaded Two-Face in this film, the footage served to con­firm this. A shot of Dent from behind has some­one com­ing up to the Dis­trict Attor­ney say­ing, “I thought you were dead?” Dent’s reply: “Half.” Mas­sive scar­ring can then be glimpse on the left side of his face. A dra­matic shot of a quar­ter spin­ning on a table also served to “wow” the audi­ence. In his non-scarred form, there is a shot of Dent first meet­ing Bruce Wayne. “Rachel’s told me a lot about you,” Dent says. To which Wayne replies, “I hope not.”

(Thanks for the heads up Eric)