The long rumored, new Dark Knight trailer was aired at the New York Comic-con yes­ter­day, and it is expected to arrive at your local the­ater in the next cou­ple of weeks — when the inter­net gets it is anyone’s guess, though I imag­ine we’ll get a grainy boot­leg shortly before a high-definition download-able version.

MTV have pro­vided a trust­wor­thy descrip­tion of the trailer if you can’t take the wait,

— After a breath­tak­ing shot of Bat­man perched high above Gotham, a voiceover from Heath Ledger’s Joker asks “Where do we begin?” Bat­man glides through the city.

- “Kill the Bat­man,” the Joker states to an adjoined meet­ing of mob bosses, before an explo­sion is shown and the sub­se­quent show­ing of a Joker card. This seem­ingly gels with the sus­pi­cion that the Joker is con­trol­ling the mob through ran­som (after rob­bing the mob-run bank in the IMAX preview).

- After sev­eral shots of Har­vey Dent in Dis­trict Attor­ney mode, we finally get every­one together as the Joker invades a fancy bash with Bruce Wayne (Chris­t­ian Bale), Alfred (Michael Caine), Har­vey Dent (Aaron Eck­hart) and Rachel Dawes (Mag­gie Gyl­len­haal). Sadly, the scene wasn’t topped off by the Pen­guin crash­ing through the floor on a giant duck.

- “The dawn is com­ing” says Dent in a voiceover.

- The Joker mut­ters “Here we go” before walk­ing down a city street blow­ing stuff up in one par­tic­u­larly awe­some scene.

- In one of the most fore­bod­ing moments of the trailer, Dent emphat­i­cally states “You either die a hero or you live long enough to see your­self become the vil­lain.” Har­vey Dent, of course, back­wardly ref­er­enc­ing his future trans­for­ma­tion into super-villain “Two-Face.”

- Our eyes may have been play­ing tricks on us, but it cer­tainly looked like the Joker drops Dawes at some point. The length of said drop is uncertain.

IGN have also been there, tak­ing pic­tures, with some spec­tac­u­lar Bat­man and Joker figures:

And Wash­ing­ton Square News got the low down on The Dark Knight Scare­crow action figure:

Pierre informs us that the viral web­site “Cit­i­zens for Bat­man” has just updated, adding a link to a set of forums on the right hand side, beneath the news col­umn. This is not a forum you can sign up to — rather a forum posted to by cit­i­zens of Gotham city with their Bat­man expe­ri­ences. Wel­come their new acronym, “WWBD” or, “What would Bat­man do?”

Poster Reddy-Steddy has started a topic “I got a pic­ture”, which con­tains a blurry Bat­mo­bile shot taken by him at “5th street”:

And here is an inter­est­ing extract from the topic “Garcetti is wrong”:

I sup­port Bat­man but Garcetti, as a rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the estab­lished civil author­ity really has to take that posi­tion. Bat­man exists out­side the estab­lished author­ity and is there­fore a threat to it. Think about it, there are over four hun­dred cit­i­zens for every cop, so the sys­tem works only if 1. the police are the only ones to enforce order and 2. most of us fol­low the rules and the police only have to deal with a few peo­ple who deviate.

The alter­na­tive is a world where any­one who has a grudge takes care of it them­selves. That means that a per­son who feels wronged deals directly with his neigh­bor, shoots them if they feel its nec­es­sary. You get feuds and law­less­ness and a sur­vival of the fittest. The strong dom­i­nate the weak. By tak­ing the law into his own hands, Bat­man threat­ens the police monop­oly on main­tain­ing order and could be seen as tak­ing the first step towards that kind of lawlessness.

The prob­lem is that the police are not keep­ing their end of the civil con­tract. We give them power with the under­stand­ing that they will main­tain order. But any­one who lives in Gotham can see that order and safety are break­ing down. We are already in a state of law­less­ness. Bat­man is respond­ing to the increas­ing dis­or­der. And so are we by join­ing Cit­i­zens For Batman.

Pierre has also spot­ted that the name “Larry” posted in the Neigh­bor­hood watch thread refers to Larry Coniglia, enter­ing this name in the record search at St Swith­uns reveals his mar­riage cer­tifi­cate — which we have pre­vi­ously dis­cov­ered by search­ing for Sal­va­tor Maroni (he is the witness)

Sin City 2’s sto­ry­line is set to include some “Blue Eyes” sto­ries, which include The Colonel, played by Josh Hart­nett in the first film. Whether he shall reprise his role is as of yet uncon­firmed. Clive Owen is expected to return as Dwight and IMDB list Jes­sica Alba as Nancy Calla­han once again.

Bruce Willis shall not be return­ing as the now deceased Har­ti­gan, though if a future story fea­tured his char­ac­ter he says he would love to make a re-appearance.

There have been many rumors sur­round­ing the role of Ava Lord (stun­ningly fea­tured in the top right of our header image). In 2006 Rosario Daw­son (set to reprise her role as Gail) hinted that Angelina Jolie was Rodriguez’s prime tar­get, though since then Rose McGowan (Grind­house) and Salma Hayek have also been linked. Jolie has recently stated that she will be tak­ing a break from film­ing dur­ing 2008. The lat­est uncon­firmed rumor is that Rachel Weisz is inline to play Ava.

Both Anto­nio Ban­deras and Johnny Depp have been rumored to play Wal­lace, also rumored for a third film expected to entirely revolve around “Hell and Back”

Frank Miller had hoped to begin Sin City 2’s pro­duc­tion in late spring 2007, how­ever these plans were scup­pered in May by Rodriguez’s announced plans to helm the 1968 Bar­barella remake.

Source: Vari­ety

The specifics of the Sin City sequel are rel­a­tively unknown at this junc­ture — how­ever cre­ator Frank Miller, speak­ing in Feb­ru­ary 2007, con­firmed that the graphic novel, “A Dame to Kill For” shall be adapted for the big screen, along with a pre­quel to “The Hard Good­bye” as well as some “Blue Eyes” and “Old Town Girls” sto­ries (found in Booze, Broads and Bul­lets).

The film shall also fea­ture an alto­gether new sec­tion, revolv­ing around Nancy Calla­han (Jes­sica Alba) in a “very dif­fer­ent, scary role”.

Source: SciFi

Wel­come to the lat­est instal­la­tion in the Movie Chron­i­cles series — a blog ded­i­cated to the devel­op­ment of the much antic­i­pated Sin City movie sequel. We hope to give you that same level of news, rumors, pic­tures and videos reported with devo­tion, as wit­nessed in our exist­ing chronicles.

I recently got a call to my cell phone, via the num­ber I sub­mit­ted to the Acme Secu­rity Sys­tems web­site, ask­ing me to take part in a Gotham Vot­ers Sur­vey. The call asks your opin­ions about Har­vey Dent with a rat­ing of 0–9 for each ques­tion, they are very prob­ing ques­tions and ask how Harvey’s men­tal state, fail­ure to file tax returns and links to organ­ised crime affect your view of him.

At the end of the call they pro­vide a num­ber to give to friends if they wish to take part — 8777776197.

Down­load the recorded call with secret mes­sage at the end

This cor­re­sponds with an update on CCFABG,

Mes­sage from the Webmaster:

You may be won­der­ing why I haven’t updated this site recently. Well, you wouldn’t either, if you were fac­ing legal actions like slan­der charges and defama­tion of char­ac­ter accusations.

I can’t afford to get sued for hun­dreds of thou­sands of dol­lars, espe­cially now that every­one who sup­ported this site is “unavail­able” or “can’t remem­ber” they had any­thing to do with the site.

If I weren’t wait­ing for my last pay­check, I’d go on a lit­tle “vaca­tion” myself. In fact, if you don’t get any more updates from me in the next few days, it means I did just that.

This whole smear cam­paign has been a real SOURCE of con­ster­na­tion for me. I’ll be glad when it’s all in the past. And you know what? I just might vote for Har­vey Dent.

William Bucksworth-Haven, Web­mas­ter Extraordinaire

In the source code for the page is this comment:

<!-- <ACCESS: 164938> -->

Which, when entered as answers on the sur­vey reveal a secret message.

Edmund has also sent in this mes­sage (thanks!) that he received from Jim Gor­don (jim.​gordon@​gpdmcu.​com):

My friend,
Indict­ments are about to be handed down. If you don’t want your name on one, we’ll need your full coöper­a­tion in an upcom­ing operation.

In case you haven’t heard, we are strug­gling with a bit of cor­rup­tion in the depart­ment. I’m not about to let the Gotham PD col­lapse in on itself, so we’re tak­ing action. We’ve iden­ti­fied a group of offend­ers that need to be appre­hended. Prob­lem is, most of these cops are high­tail­ing it out of the city. But a C.I. just like you just gave us some infor­ma­tion on their last known where­abouts. Now all we need is to catch them. This is where you come in.

Con­sider your­self on deck. I’ll con­tact you next week, and let’s just say it’s in your best inter­est to play along. County’s not a place you want to spend the rest of your life.

Lt. Jim Gor­don, MCU

The Maiden Avenue Report has updated, now with the head­line, “Saved by Har­vey Dent — He’s my White Knight” and a pic­ture of the hostage:

HARVEY DENT RESCUES WOMAN HELD HOSTAGE BY “SMEAR COP“
HEROIC ACT OF COURAGE WITNESSED BY MILLIONS OF TV AND RADIO VIEWERS
INITIAL REPORTS SAY CRAZED “SMEAR COP” WAS COMING CLEAN ABOUT MOB TIES TO SMEAR CAMPAIGN
WITNESS: “IT BEGAN AS AN ARGUMENT, THEN A GUNFIGHT RIGHT THERE IN THE DELI!“
SECOND VICTIM JONNY MARINOTTI IN CRITICAL CONDITION
WITNESS: NOTARO TOOK WOMAN HOSTAGE AS COPS ARRIVED AFTER SHOOTOUT
MIKE ENGEL: “A DAY GOTHAM CAN BE PROUD OF”

Thanks Bryan!