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NYCC: Wanna know more about the WB Speed Racer/Dark Knight presentation? Wanna hear about the new DK trailer? Sure ya' do!
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Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. From the sounds of things the WB presentation and the Hellboy panel were the coolest things at the Con this year. Thanks to spy "joe dope" we have a rundown of the DC presentation below! Enjoy!
Sandwiched in between The Hulk and Spirit panels, Warner Bros. was scheduled to give a fifteen minute "presentation" at the Con. No panels, just footage. Speed Racer and Dark Knight - Warner Bros. biggest projects on the slate - were the two most likely suspects. We were praying like hell for fresh Batman footage, but without concrete evidence, we feared that Speed Racer might ride solo.
Lo and behold, possibly to stomp on our dreams, the program director introduced Paulie Litt, who will play Speed's younger brother Spritle in the upcoming flick. Even with my biased-disappointment, he's a cute 'lil fella. He toted the company line for a bit and started an impromptu sing-a-long to the Speed Racer theme song. ("Here he comes, here comes Speed Racer! He's a demon on wheels!" Very cool.)
Paulie warmed up the audience and presented new footage from the film. With the world premiere in Tribeca fast approaching, we didn't break new ground here. Lots of fleshing out of scenes already depicted. It starts with the same line as the other trailers ("Your son seems to be interested in only one thing: automobile racing."), but now shows a young Speed sketching cars in his notebook, daydreaming, and mimicking the crowd's cheers from his dream "victory," with a smile from Trixie. Flash forward to the future, Mom Racer is amazed at what Speed can accomplish and proud to be Speed's mother. There's extended racing sequences with Speed wondering if the last race was fixed against him and chatting with Racer X bringing those to justice. Trixie and the Racer family want to work with Speed to help him do what he was born to do. Finally, we're shown scenes of Speed using his newly-installed defense system against the racers gunning for him.
The footage ends. We cheer. The program director enters the room and introduces Paul Levitz (president of DC Comics) to the stage! I couldn't believe it. Since he was on an Eisner panel the day before, I thought he was going to introduce the Spirit, but then he tells us that before the rest of the human race, we will get to see the new trailer for The Dark Knight!! Pandemonium!!
This trailer is more plot-driven, depicting the Joker's rise to power (Joker to mob bosses: It's simple: kill the Batman.) and Bruce's struggle with Rachel dating Harvey. There's an extended sequence of Joker meeting Rachel (the one in the second trailer - "A little fight in ya. I like that!"); he coyly fixes his hair and mentions how beautiful she looks. There are heavy shots of Harvey Dent promising that the dawn is coming and he delivers a terrific line to Bruce: You either die a hero or you live long enough to become the villain. Further foreshadowing his turn as Two-Face, half of Harvey's face is held to what looks like a gasoline-soaked floor.
There was thunderous applause, arguably the best of the night (next to Battlestar Galactica and Guillermo del Toro with the Hellboy cast). He said that it'll be released in a couple weeks, possibly attached to Speed Racer, but he vaguely mentioned that we'd need to hunt it down. Another viral marketing scheme?
Quick tangential point: at the Mattel Toy Section of Comic Con, they displayed the new Dark Knight toy line, which did include a Scarecrow figure. He's donning the Arkham straight jacket we saw in Batman Begins, but now featuring many straps and locks. (Toy feature or was he recaptured and then set free?) What's most interesting is that his face is absolutely horrifying. I hope I'm not looking too much into this, but it appears that his mask lies around his neck and his face is now orange and black, resembling no distinct physical features. I really don't think it's a mask. The Scarecrow is set to appear in the animated Batman: Gotham Knight. Maybe they'll explain his facial disfigurement there. Oh, and he carries a wrist blaster for anyone interested.
Note: there were two different types of toys: one geared Ages 4+ and the other 8+. The former set has "softer" features for the kiddies (i.e., no scarring on the Joker's mouth) and Scarecrow was a part of this bunch. (MIA for the older 8+ crowd.) So there will be differences in the true appearance, but we have a good idea.
-joe dope
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woohoo!!
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Hunh?
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and now i avoid reading spoilers...click...
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The viral marketing hunts are really cool, but I live in friggen Maine, so I just get to read about it over the course of the day....man, bring on the trailer!
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hoping some fellow geek recorded the dam trailer
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It looks badass enough, and now a new TDK trailer. May 9th can't get here quick enough.
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That is all.
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I really can't wait to see how Nolan handles Harvey's two-face-ifying. The Joker always seemed better with a cloudy origin. Not saying that I didn't like Moore's take on him but I hope his origin stays between the lines. I'm also glad to see that they didn't nix any Joker figures after Heath's death. I also hope they cut out as LITTLE as possible. I really think this is the role that would have made him a star and I can't wait to see him as the "comic book" version of the Joker and not an exaggerated, darker version of Ceaser Romero's.
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Check out paulielitt on myspace for some mad aural action. He could be the next Corey Feldman.
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That's the Goddamn batman to you.
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...Hey, you live in Maine? Me too! You find it to be the asshole of the world for anything cinema?? Me too!! I'm totally going to the New Hampshire IMAX for TDK. I'll even wait in line next to the kid wearing the cheap knock off batman costume if I have to.
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YES, MY LIFE'S GOAL REALIZED!!
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Apr 21, 2008 8:52:43 PM CDT
TWENTY!!! I CAN'T BE STOPPED!!
by guy who got a headache and accidentally
MADE IT MA'! TOP A THE WORLD!!!
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from a blur in my memory, there were a few great moments i left out of the TDK trailer description: (1) dent asks alfred if rachel had any psychotic ex-boyfriends with intermixed shots of batman. (2) when the clown prince is at the roundtable with the mob, he pulls out a joker and says, "here's my card." (3) the final (and funny) clip of the trailer is alfred telling bruce it might be better to take out the lamborghini than the other car.
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this trailer really gives you an idea on why people talk about a posthumous oscar. it's too early to tell, but now you can see where it's coming from. heath is brilliant.
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That trailer sounds pretty interesting...and the toys...well...
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He should just be psychotic. No reason. No broken childhood or personal trauma. No acid bath. Every goddamn villain nowadays has some sad back story. Offhand Palpatine is the only evil character I csn think of without some reason for it. The Joker should just be evil because it's fun.
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some of the spy pictures did show somebody looking like him.
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Yes, Scarecrow is in a shootout scene. This has been confirmed for months, and he's clearly scene in one of the spy pictures released way back when.
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Recently one of the writers from Heroes was given the chance to rewrite Joker's orgins. He basically reworked the mobster version version of Joker's backstory, and while most of it was utter crap, he did make one change that I liked, but basically kind of cribbed from some older issues and Morrison's Arkham Asylum: in the famous Red Hood chemical scene where Joker falls in a vat of chemicals, it was changed to a vat of anti-psychotics. Essentially, Joker is supposed to now be so sane that he sees the absurdities and futility of social order.
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Nolan is a god. He will deliver.
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that TDK will be the best superhero movie ever made.
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See above.
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That it will ever live up to my expectations. So, I will whisper a little prayer. Please don't suck. Please don't suck.
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but I done think it can live up to the hype. I don't know since everyone sucked the last ones dick and it was just ok. http://tinyurl.com/pv8do
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Wow, I'm surprised anyone remembers that, they'd have to be as old as me :-)
Scarecrow got tasered in the face by Rachel in the last movie while wearing his mask, that might explain the disfigurement. -
JUST POST IT ALREADY DC ! Enough viral marketing shit, you become like this girl friend who keeps eluding the shag part until you don't want her anymore.
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Jack's Joker is respected but shall fall to Ledger's... I hope
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looking forward to the new trailer, thanks for the report.
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Nolan is not a god. Why would a god cast Katie Holmes in anything?
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phoenixmagi2 you are soooooooo funnny......not! You are a prick.
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I'm so happy TDK is going good. I wanna see Sionis chip his father's coffin lid and become Black Mask. I wanna see Wesker steal his cellmate's dummy and become the Ventriliquist. I wanna see Selina, the HOOKER from EAST END, put on S&M leather, crack her bullwhip, and become Catwoman. Thank god they're not softening this film up for the kiddies. Dark heroes should be dark. Colorful heroes should be colorful. Fuck you, Schumaker. Your evil plans for killing our franchise have been thwarted by Chris Nolan! Bwaa-hyaa-haa-ha!
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Oh yeah, and fuck Katie Holmes. Aside from getting laid in Thank You For Smoking, she's done nothing for cinema (in my opinion).
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phoenixmagi2 . You ARE out of line. Ok. However, there would be absolutely nothing wrong if she was killed off within the first five seconds of the movie. Maybe four.
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I don't
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...Maybe so. But I'm just going to try my damndest not to have expectations because I want to go into that theatre and get kicked in the head so hard there'll be nothing left by the closing credits but an empty popcorn box, a watch and a pair of smoking Doc Martens.
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Goddammit.
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Well... he did get tasered in the face at the end of Begins. Maybe they're playing on that?Not that a standard taser would be enough to disfigure someone... but... you know... comic-book movie.
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without having to hunt for it?
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has a subplot about Bruce having a hard time with Rachel dating Harvey Dent? I call bullshit. Batman was never about that kind of Juvenile stuff Spider-man always wallowed in. Where the hell is Selina Kyle? I just lost a lot confidence in this movie. (Then again, Begins wasn't so great either.)
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A handful of naysayers will continue to whine like the shrill cunts they no doubt are but the rest of use should be in for a brilliant comic book film.
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A shame, since I liked the relationship falling apart as much as everything else in Dent's life which also led to his descent into insanity. Now it'll just be like, 'you took my girlfriend, douche.' -
Um - anyone remember Rachael shooting Scarecrow in the face with a tazer? He was wearing a mask at the time and rode off with it still sparking. It likely caught fire. It's no secret Scarecrow will be in this in some way - Goyer and Nolan have both said scripts for 3 movies were written all at once and are tied to each other.
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just give me the Dark Knight trailer, DC!
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I refuse to pay money to see Speed Racer, maybe I'll sneak into the theater, see The Dark Knight trailer, and then go see something decent.
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Sure we all do but I'm sure there's a lot of people who don't. Probably less so in the film's target audience but Christ, just show the trailer on TV.
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I don't know how long I can wait to see that new TDK trailer. The previous two showed a lot of promise and I'm finally getting excited for July. But until then, I guess this will have to do... http://tinyurl.com/4u35tp
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When movies like this are so overly hyped, it can only result in one thing: disappointment.
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... was face down in a play environment when I stopped by the Mattel booth, but as far as I could tell, it was the same figure from the "Batman Begins" line. And nothing in this description seems to indicate otherwise.
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you're absolutely right. i don't know how i've never seen that. i just looked on amazon for the begins figure and they're very close. i was giddy and thought i was ahead of the curve on some scarecrow news. thanks for the correction.
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Not a problem, my friend! Thanks for the in-depth report.
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It's been awhile and I can't think of anyone better to prove this film to the masses!
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