… and no major, news­wor­thy update yet. Rory’s Death Kiss… has how­ever updated with a new mes­sage at the bot­tom of the page:

It seems those with accepted sub­mis­sions will receive some­thing spe­cial in the post, prob­a­bly around Thanks­giv­ing. We’ll have to wait and see what that is, the rumors sug­gest some sort of Poster.

The feed­back we’re get­ting from the fans that waited for this dead­line to pass is that the major­ity are extremely dis­ap­pointed, espe­cially those that took part in the photo tak­ing chal­lenge but had their pic­tures rejected or those that took pic­tures of the let­ters to reveal the hid­den mes­sage — they will not be rewarded for their pro­mo­tional efforts.

Maybe this is because the old prize — a set of Dark Knight stills, was let loose on the net a few weeks back, spoil­ing the entire sce­nario. How­ever that’s just spec­u­la­tion on my part.

Rory’s Death Kiss has updated; it now con­tains a plethora of pho­tos por­tray­ing fans dressed up as The Joker in front of famous city monuments.

There’s also a lovely lit­tle pic­ture of the jack-o-lantern with a gun to its “head”:

The Why So Seri­ous Hal­loween Viral Mar­ket­ing Cam­paign has taken its next step in the most excit­ing of fash­ions. All the let­ters have been filled in and this pic­ture of The Joker was revealed (click for large):

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!

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.

Long has it been rumored that Mr. Hall, made famous for his appear­ances in those eight­ies films, was to play the infa­mous Edward Nygma, also known as The Rid­dler. Recent rumors, and if true, spoil­ers, have now sur­faced to debunk that the­ory — paint­ing the new role in an entirely dif­fer­ent light. This exclu­sive comes from the reli­ably informed Hol­ly­wood­Chicago.

These are spoil­ers, if you don’t want to know the scores, look away now (or just don’t hover to reveal the text):

Hol­ly­wood­Chicago have reported that efforts are being made to pro­duce an explo­sive new action scene, don’t read on if you are wary of spoil­ers — this source is well accounted for.

Here is the biggest infor­ma­tion of all. Mark Aug. 29, 2007 down on your cal­en­dars. They will implode a four-story build­ing on the for­mer Brach Candy fac­tory site.

I have been told this will be a day shoot. A typ­i­cal build­ing implo­sion does not have any flames. This will be different.

They will load the build­ing with large amounts of gaso­line and other flam­ma­ble mate­r­ial for a huge explo­sion and ulti­mate implo­sion of the building.

Film Rota­tion are report­ing a sus­pected time that we may see our much antic­i­pated Bat­man trailer, precisely,

The first of THREE full length the­atri­cal trail­ers for Christo­pher Nolan’s The Dark Knight will debut in front of the much-anticipated Will Smith apoc­a­lyp­tic action-horror, I Am Leg­end, in late November/early Decem­ber this year.

Cat­e­gorised as a rumor.