The Dark Knight Footage Finally Shown At Wizard World Chicago

By Kellvin Chavez on August 12, 2007

Over the weekend a teaser footage from the upcoming Batman sequel "The Dark Knight" was finally shown over Wizard World Chicago, and Mel over at Wizard Entertainment alerted us about their reports on “The Dark Knight” presentation at Wizard World Chicago.

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The footage started with a silhouette of a dark figure in front of one of Batman’s armored vehicles before quickly cutting to Bruce Wayne and Alfred delivering the brief lines heard in the “Dark Knight” teaser trailer.

“Some people just want to watch the world burn,” advises Alfred before the camera jumps to Batman in action on the Batpod, the new iteration of his motorcycle.

The action built up as the Joker was seen in full for the first time with a mess of white face, smeared red lipstick and sweaty, straggly green hair. Apparently, the clown prince of crime gets arrested at one point in the film, as the montage presented Jim Gordon (complete in SWAT gear) at the Joker’s booking, saying, "no prints, no ID, custom clothes, no tags.” The clown smiles with what appears to be blood over his face from the inside of an interrogation room.

Checking back in with Bruce Wayne, the billionaire playboy has a brief scene with Eckhart’s Harvey Dent where he says “Rachel’s told me everything about you.”

“I truly hope not,” responds Wayne.

The footage sped up at that point into an intense montage of action, featuring the following clips:
 
 The new batsuit rising up from a trap door in the ground and held in a chain metal case.

- Rachel Dawes (played by Maggie Gyllenhaal) close to an unidentified man either kissing him or being threatened by him as the camera rotates around them.

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After the footage was shown there was a Q&A session with with David S. Goyer, Jonathan Nolan, Gary Oldman, Aaron Eckhart, Christian Bale and Christopher Nolan

Here is a clip on that

QUESTION: What’s the best part about working together again?

CHRISTIAN BALE: It’s like how any relationship progresses. There’s an increase in communication and trust. Chris' movies are fantastic. It’s great working together again for the third time, the second time on this character. We stride purposely toward the good of the movie from the get-go.

CHRISTOPHER NOLAN: It’s extraordinary to work with Christian again. He has extraordinary precision, and the great thing about working with him is his ability to do a lot of the physical work and the stunts. It makes my job easier to be able make this film with someone with his extraordinary talents.

CHRISTIAN BALE: It was like riding a bike. The second you put on the suit, to me, there’s only one way to play it.

How different is it preparing for superheroes and supervillain roles as opposed to traditional roles?

GARY OLDMAN: I think it always helps to have good material. If the script is well written, I like to think of it as my map of the world. The roles you take on have particular hurdles. There’s no particular approach you take on, whether it’s Gordon or Sid Vicious. A lot of roles I play are hard to research. But with this project there are great characters, great script and a great cast.

AARON ECKHART: I cannot add to what Gary just said. It would be blasphemy and I’d be kicked out of the union.

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Source:Wizard Entertainment