Poster Post: The Killing Joke

Although you would have thought that we would have got this before all those other various viral marketing efforts, here it is after all: the first official poster art for next year's The Dark Knight.

In more Bat-news: Six whole minutes of the film's opening IMAX scenes were recently screened in New York, revealing a "radical new take on the Joker", according to director Christopher Nolan. For the rest of us outside of the Big Apple, the footage will be attached to IMAX screenings of I Am Legend, the Will Smith futuristic actioner starting tomorrow.

And for even more appetizers before the main course is served, an animated series of shorts titled Batman: Gotham Knight (which will serve as a "bridge" between Batman Begins and The Dark Knight) is planned to hit DVD shortly before the film premieres on July 18. Do you think it will show how Rachel Dawes morphed from Katie Holmes into Maggie Gyllenhaal?

Click here to buy this The Dark Knightposter from Amazon.com.
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