WhySoSe­ri­ous has updated and our lit­tle adven­ture has ended with puz­zles being solved and trail­ers being unearthed.

Here are the down­load links:

EDIT (31st July) : All WhySoSe​ri​ous​.com links now redi­rect to a new viral site:
“http://​www​.rent​-​a​-clown​.com”

Quick­Time [DEAD], High Def­i­n­i­tion (Best)
Quick­Time [DEAD], High Def­i­n­i­tion (Medium)
Quick­Time [DEAD], High Def­i­n­i­tion (High)

Any­one have some mir­rors of the high res­o­lu­tion videos?

Time to solve this puz­zle. Feel free to dis­cuss this in the comments.

“Ready to play a Joke? Tell your stooges to look up. They’ll tell you what to do next”

Answer: inside joke

New link on next page: Jok­ers: Sur­veil­lance Specialist

Sec­ond answer: Jack the Ripper

Third pass­word: moun­te­bank (the mp3 is in morse code)

Fourth pass­word: Crime of Passion

Read the com­ments for the rest of the answers! 

Why So Serious?

http://​www​.whysose​ri​ous​.com/

You have, as of writ­ing, approx­i­mately 4 hours to get to the co-ordinates on the site — they are intrigu­ingly in San Diego and the page itself is titled “Antic­i­pa­tion”. The clock is tick­ing. Good hunt­ing my friends.

Our read­ers are report­ing on a num­ber of pos­si­ble film­ing loca­tions in Chicago, firstly Tony sent this in,

It looks as if they were film­ing at City Hall in Chicago today.  I walked by dur­ing my lunch break and there was a trailer with crew parked in front.  There was also a black Dodge Charger with the Gotham plates on it as well.  Didn’t see any film­ing but saw RFK stuff all over the city.

And later this from Brian,

There has been some film crew activ­ity in the past week on lower Ran­dolph by the Patrillo Band­shell and AON build­ings.  This morn­ing, some cars were parked along the curb with no license plates, and they were bumper to bumper.  I’m won­der­ing now if this is related to the Bat­man filming.

Maybe we’ll be get­ting some more great images from The Dark Knight very shortly,  and only 7 days to go until the teaser trailer. Keep your Bat­man scoops com­ing in, your news fuels this site.

Note this on your cal­en­dars, this will be the first big video — a must watch. Joblo, Super­Hero­Hype and now a num­ber of other online news out­lets have con­firmed through their asso­ci­ated sources that with Warner Brother’s The Simp­sons movie, in selected screen­ings, they will pre­view the first teaser trailer of The Dark Knight on July 27th, coin­cid­ing with the Warner Bros. day at Comic Con 2007 — a mere coincidence?

Let’s wait and see!

Latino Review have posted a clip from an inter­view with Aaron Eck­hart in which he briefly dis­cusses TDK.

“There are some peo­ple here with poi­son darts so I can’t talk about Bat­man,” Eck­hart joked before adding. “I love the script and I wanted to do the movie.”

And what about the other incar­na­tion of Har­vey Dent? How does Aaron feel about that? “I feel one is com­pletely dif­fer­ent from the other,” he answered. “I don’t have to do what Tommy Lee Jones did.”

Next up we have an inter­view via MTV’s Movie Blog, this one has the bomb-shell confirmation:

“I play Harvet Dent. Har­vey Two-Face. They are both in the movie. […] There are a few scenes I am dying to do. We’ve done a few…but the scene that I really want to do is in Octo­ber.” So who appears in said scene? Is it Har­vey or Two-Face? We coyly asked Eck­hart if he’ll be in heavy make-up that day and, respond­ing with a grin, he said, “I don’t know. There might be anger involved. There might be tears. It might be a cathar­tic day. It might be a lot of love.”

And thirdly Dark Hori­zons had a chat too, here’s an excerpt per­tain­ing to what he likes about play­ing Har­vey Dent:

“Well there’s sev­eral hooks for me, none of which I can talk about, but I will say that I like the char­ac­ter. I like play­ing this guy. This guy has like­able attrib­utes, char­ac­ter­is­tics. And it really, as in this whole Bat­man going through it, it’s really a mir­ror of our times in a lot of ways. It’s a com­ment on what’s going on in the world today. And my char­ac­ter fits into that really nicely. And everybody’s char­ac­ter does from Lieu­tenant Gor­don to the Joker. I guess Bat­man is just try­ing to make sense of what’s going on and try­ing to fight a fight that maybe he doesn’t totally under­stand.”

Well, I had to take a brief time out from the inter­net this past week, mean­ing the site didn’t have its reg­u­lar 2 posts-a-day update. Sorry about that folks. But it is now time to get back to business.

A lit­tle late, Hol­ly­wood Chicago had the week’s street clo­sure sched­ule (and hence film­ing sched­ule?). What still may be rel­e­vant is this information:

On Sun­day, July 15
Upper Wacker (from Van Buren to Adams) 6 to 9:30 p.m.
Jack­son (from Canal to Franklin) 6 to 9:30 p.m.
Lower Wacker (from Har­ri­son to Michi­gan) from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m.

Super­Hero­Hype con­tin­ues to wade in with more and more scooper set reports, here’s their lat­est stock:

First Report:

Hey guys, I live in the sub­urbs out­side of Chicago and I decided to check out the film­ing last night due to that awe­some detailed scoop. Any­way, I made it down­town and found TDK film­ing. I came away with some really excit­ing infor­ma­tion, but was not allowed to take any pic­tures. They were film­ing a chase scene involv­ing garbage trucks and GPD, but more inter­est­ingly appar­ently they’ve been work­ing on this chase scene for about 25 days and are say­ing that it will outdo the 15 minute high­way scene in the Matrix Reloaded. Well, that’s all I got last night, I’m going back tonight to because they are appar­ently blow­ing up a fire truck and/or dump­ing a car in the river. I’ll try harder to get pic­tures this time.

Sec­ond Report:

They seem to have a whole set up over by the WGN stu­dios on Addi­son. As I walked out of the build­ing I saw a ton of white semi trail­ers with RFK all over them. I also man­aged to get a photo of the Bat­pod stored in a lit­tle white trailer with a white pick up on the front. I think they had some set build­ing in a whare­house nearby too. There was lots of guys build­ing some big wooden sec­tions. I also saw a guy rid­ing a red and white scooter that was almost child sized.

They also posted some of The Dark Knight’s tie-ins, includ­ing an animé style fea­ture set between Bat­man Begins and The Dark Knight, a video game, lots of new prod­ucts and comic book adap­ta­tion of the film by DC comics.

In other news, Chris­t­ian Bale appeared on Char­lie Rose, to pro­mote Res­cue Dawn:

It’s now the ques­tion of the bur­den and toll of what he’s doing, the ques­tion can this be a finite endeav­our. Is this some­thing that has an end? Can he quit and have an ordi­nary life? The kind of manic inten­sity some­one has to have to main­tain the pas­sion and the anger that they felt as a child, takes an effort after awhile, to keep doing that. At some point, you have to exor­cise your demons. That’s what I love about Bat­man. There’s so much that is about char­ac­ter. — News­day

The British news­pa­per The Guardian have an inter­view and arti­cle about Mag­gie Gyl­len­haal, in which she has said this about film­ing The Dark Knight,

“Doing Bat­man has shocked me at every turn. When I started, I thought, ‘Well, it’s a huge movie, I’ll just do my best to put what I can into it.’ But, in fact, they’ve been really hun­gry for my ideas, for my views. It’s great! They’ve been ask­ing for more!”

In the time since our last update Chris­t­ian Bale has been active in Wayne’s pent­house, check out some of the spoiler reports here. Hol­ly­wood Chicago also report that the film­ing of a chase scene shall soon commence.

Film Ick also have a HUGE stonker of a SPOILER con­cern­ing some vil­lains we might see in The Dark Knight.

There’s also this “Rory’s First Kiss” Cast­ing call. Ahem.