The Dark Knight Rises Teaser Poster Suggests Gotham Will Crumble

 Author: Sean O'Connell
From: http://www.cinemablend.com/

With Comic-Con around the corner (the fest overruns San Diego July 21-24), fans can expect a flood of superhero-related news items to spread across the Internet as studios line up future tentpoles and kick start viral marketing campaigns. And even though Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises isn’t expected to have much of a presence at the convention, the anticipated sequel just made a pre-Con splash by tossing a teaser poster into the mix.

Check it out the first ever Dark Knight Rises poster below:



It’s bleak. And it’s not just the washed out, black-and-white tones. It appears to suggest that major skyscrapers in Gotham are crumbling to the ground … a stark contrast to bright lights and bustle that was reflected in posters for The Dark Knight. Either that or massive pieces of popcorn are popping in Gotham. Maybe Bane (Tom Hardy) and Catwoman (Anne Hathaway) have a delicious scheme cooked up for the Caped Crusader?

Speaking of the announced antagonists, they’re noticeably absent from this teaser poster. Some of the best marketing for The Dark Knight gave us glimpses of Heath Ledger in his Joker outfit, working his bloody smile into the imagery. It immediately created a memorable image that this poster doesn’t quite convey. Bonus points for working the Bat signal into the design, though. Look closely, and you’ll see.

Hopefully we’ll get even more in the teaser trailers that are supposed to be attached to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 this weekend. And then there’s always Comic-Con, where Warner could continue to generate buzz for a sequel that doesn’t really need it.

Check Out Our Exclusive DVD Extra Sneak Peek From ‘The Dark Knight’

Published by Casey Seijas on Monday, December 8, 2008 at 1:16 pm.

For true fans of “The Dark Knight,” tomorrow has been the day we’ve all been waiting for — when, at long last, the film is released on DVD and Blu-ray, complete with TONS of special features, extras, and in some cases, limited edition statuettes and masks. Meanwhile, Warner Bros. have been giving the 11th hour push with getting the word out, offering up exclusive sneak-peeks at some of the special features contained on the disk to various websites — and now it’s our turn!

In our exclusive clip below, we check in with GCN’s resident news host, Mike Engel (Anthony Michael Hall) during an interview with Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart) as a breaking news report comes in, but you’ll have to watch the clip to find out what’s going down on the mean streets of Gotham…

As mentioned, “The Dark Knight” hits stores tomorrow on DVD and Blu-ray, and for the hardcore Bat-fans out there, various stores will be offering limited edition collector sets of the movie complete with statuettes featuring Heath Ledger’s The Joker, Christian Bale’s Batman and masks of the Dark Knight as well as the ones the Joker’s gang wore during the bank robbery scene.

Are you gonna be picking up “The Dark Knight” on DVD or Blu-ray tomorrow, or are you hoping Santa will leave it under the tree? We wanna know in the comments.