This is the big Bat­man news story of the day, Cil­lian Mur­phy has been spot­ted on the set of The Dark Knight, as the Scare­crow. There’s some footage online over at YouTube, which pretty much gives away the scene and hence has some spoil­ers. Noth­ing too supris­ing in the video so I advise just wait­ing for the movie, if you can. Super­Hero­Hype has the full story from bud­ding Paparazzi ‘type­orocks’. Here’s one of the shots:

And here’s the infa­mous Bat Sig­nal, the best can­did shot we’ve seen yet, as snapped by Jeremy Farmer:

Let us not for­get the lessons of His­tory; let us remem­ber why the orig­i­nal Bat­man fran­chise was destroyed so utterly and com­pletely. Bat­man — Robin — Bat­girl — Mr Freeze — Poi­son Ivy — Bane — Bat­plane — Bat­mo­bile, it had it all.

10 years ago today many a fan boy shed a tear. If you work in the film indus­try and you ever find your­self putting nip­ples on a cos­tume, think twice and get out while you still can.

EDIT: Chicago not New York, I had ques­tioned this but it had seemed plau­si­ble what with the NY 2007 Licens­ing show which had the Bat­pod. Sorry for the mis­take guys. 

The news keeps “tum­bling” in, this time we’re get­ting reports of Bruce Wayne’s tum­bler, aka the Bat­man Begins Bat­mo­bile. It’s turned up in CHICAGO, ready for film­ing. Here are some great shots:

As expected, what with the release of a high res­o­lu­tion bat­suit pic­ture, we can get some juicy up close pic­tures of the infa­mous bat-cycle mon­ster. Click the images for the full high res­o­lu­tion ver­sions, each is about 1mb in size. Enjoy.

And here’s an ALL NEW image from The Slug:

I’m not one for this kind of pre­sent­ing, I pre­fer my reporters straight up and British, BBC style. Aside from that, here’s a nice lit­tle video clip from NBC’s Today Show, reveal­ing the ‘hard to strad­dle’ mon­stros­ity. It is lit­er­ally huge.

By the way, sorry for the site’s down time, we got hit pretty bad by traf­fic and we needed to reim­ple­ment a lot of stuff. But we’re back!

This is it, the new con­trap­tion ‘cre­ated’ by Lucius Fox, the vehi­cle rumored to be unveiled this week. It is the Bat­pod, or bat-cycle, whichever you pre­fer. It offi­cially goes on view tomor­row at the 2007 New York Licens­ing show.

It is a mon­ster, and not only is it rid­able, it is fast. The wheels are 508 mm in diam­e­ter and it boasts machine guns, can­nons and a grap­pling hook. There is no han­dle­bar, instead you steer with your shoul­ders that lock into two shields. To ride this you need to lie belly down, on the ‘tank’, which can rise and lower itself in order to fit through the small­est of gaps.

There are six of these beau­ties in total and their cost is unknown. They were designed by the man behind the Bat­man Begins Bat­mo­bile, Nathan Crow­ley and built by Chris Cor­bould. It will be rid­den by French stunt­man Jean-Pierre Goy, who has been test­ing the bikes at an undis­closed secret loca­tion in Eng­land over the past month.

I think we all can’t wait to see this thing in action!

The spy cam­eras, cell phone shots and Chris­t­ian Bale voyeurisms con­tinue to pour in. This time Sarah Piper Brown snapped these shots with her phone on June 16th at a Chicago set.

The nov­elty and inter­est in shots like these will soon dis­si­pate so I shall not be post­ing all of the candid-back-alley pic­tures or videos received, I feel it may be dam­ag­ing towards the integrity of the film and will inevitably be incred­i­bly spoi­lerific.

Right place at the right time man Yunerz has snatched some shots of Mag­gie Gyl­len­haal and Aaron Eck­hart play­ing Rachel Dawes and Har­vey Dent respec­tively, right next to his place of work. This is the first time we have seen Katie Holmes’ replace­ment. Many have viewed this swap-over favourably and are look­ing for­ward to see­ing Gyllenhaal’s performance.

Whilst these are can­did shots, the cho­sen image (above) does show a con­sid­er­able like­ness between the two por­tray­als by dif­fer­ent actresses. For more images, includ­ing Har­vey Dent, I rec­om­mend vis­it­ing the users’ gallery over at flickr.