Revealed in the Why So Seri­ous escapades, we have this lit­tle delight star­ring Heath Ledger and Mag­gie Gyllenhaal,

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! 

Seems like the teaser trailer leaked online, and up onto YouTube, though it has since been removed by Warner Broth­ers because of copy­right issues. To be hon­est, there’s not much to see, just some streams of light.

Here is the transcript:

Bruce: “I knew the mob wouldn’t go down with­out a fight. But this is dif­fer­ent. They crossed the line.“
Alfred: “You crossed the line first, sir. You ham­mered them. And in their des­per­a­tion, they turned to a man they didn’t fully under­stand. Some men aren’t look­ing for any­thing log­i­cal. They can’t be bought, bul­lied, rea­soned, or nego­ti­ated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.“
Joker: Start­ing tonight, peo­ple will die. I’m a man of my word. [Laugh]

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.

Today we have for you a fan­tas­tic set report from Chicago thanks to our tip­ster “Tony”, where he viewed first hand the action, dam­age and destruc­tion that trav­els along­side The Joker. Warn­ing, Spoil­ers ahead.

So I’m still at work and decided to look down at the street below and can see the crews set­ting things up for tonight. LaSalle is closed head­ing south of Mon­roe because it appears there is a “mock up” heli­copter in front of the Chase build­ing. Looks like it will be a fun night and I might actu­ally get to see some­thing blown up. An all-nighter at work is actu­ally a good thing tonight! My cam­era is ready to go so I will send pic­tures if I can get them.

He con­tin­ues,

Okay, so I went down­stairs and the Joker semi is right out­side my build­ings front door. There was a crew rig­ging stuff up inside the trailer and there was a dummy body lying on the ground. I also noticed they added “teeth” to the front of the truck (think of a cir­cu­lar saw). The Mer­cedes cam­eras were out and the PA said they were going to flip the truck end over end (cab over trailer). Lots of hydro­gen (gas) bot­tles in the back of a truck and Chicago PD every­where, along with fire trucks and ambulances.

And a short while later,

Patience is a virtue. I finally got to see real Bat­man action and it was well worth the wait.

I just wit­nessed the Joker’s semi being flipped over from the back to the front. It drove North on LaSalle and shortly after it crossed Mon­roe it did the flip. I would give it a 10 for nice form and degree of difficulty.

Turns out that the spikes in the front were for the front end to dig into the pave­ment to help it flip. Now the truck is crushed!!

Saw The Joker in full makeup hang­ing around in front of North­ern Trust Bank. He was doing things any vil­lan would do…high-fiving, text mes­sag­ing, smok­ing, and actu­ally look­ing bored.

And here are some pic­tures and the report summary:

So, I work for an invest­ment bank in down­town Chicago and had a great view of today’s film­ing action which was the Joker’s semi being flipped end over end. Heath Ledger was on hand in full makeup but not full wardrobe and there were a TON of peo­ple work­ing on the set. My view was much bet­ter than even Nolan’s and I was able to get this video and pictures.

If you look beneath the truck in the pic­tures you will see a black pis­ton and then “teeth” on the front grill. The pis­ton is what cre­ated the force to send the truck over and the teeth were used to dig into the asphalt to help flip it over.

The pic­ture of the white heli­copter shell is a prop. Appar­ently they blew up a heli­copter last night and did it again tonight. The helo was the start­ing point for the Joker’s semi and was on fire when I left work, after they flipped the truck. As I was walk­ing to the bus I saw just the cab of the Joker’s truck with a bul­let hole filled wind­shield but it was attached to a tow truck rigged w/ lights and pos­si­ble cameras.

MyFox Chicago were also on the scene and they have some higher qual­ity but ground floor footage of the event, which is also worth a watch. Thanks for the heads up Steve, check the video out here.

“I’m a man of my word. I guar­an­tee every­one here is going to die tonight.”

So says Hol­ly­wood Chicago’s descrip­tion of The Dark Knight teaser (via pro­jec­tion­ist Fran­cis Farmer) … which is dif­fer­ent to SuperHeroHype’s pre­vi­ous report. The cause? Hol­ly­wood Chicago claims that there will be two sep­a­rate videos, one for The Simp­sons, another for Comic-Con.

Here is their full trailer description:

It was just the new Bat­man logo for 50 sec­onds with light rays slowly destroy­ing it. There was dia­logue between Bat­man and Alfred.

The last line is: “Some peo­ple just want to watch the world burn.” When the logo gets destroyed, its last piece flies toward the cam­era, turns and has a Joker card on it.

Bruce Wayne says some­thing about “they crossed a line this time”. Alfred says: “They put all their hopes in a man they didn’t understand.”

Joker says some­thing like: “I’m a man of my word. I guar­an­tee every­one here is going to die tonight.”

This is clas­si­fied as a rumor.  Not long left now.

Jeremy Farmer has returned from a Dark Knight prop stor­age locale with these great pic­tures, which he has kindly released under a cre­ative com­mons license. These are some super hi-res shots.

These shots are from his flickr gallery.