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Dark Knight Movie Trailer Shenanigans: Misdirection, Bootlegs and Laughing Clowns
Posted by Neil Miller (neil@filmschoolrejects.com) on April 29, 2008

As you all may very know at this point, there has been a whole lot of hustle and bustle in the world of The Dark Knight and it’s continued viral marketing campaign. Earlier this evening, die hard Batman fans and legionnaires of The Joker descended upon pre-determined coordinates left for them on whysoserious.com/itsallpartoftheplan. The viral puppets were then led on a scavenger hunt around their locales until they ended up at a movie theater, where they were shown the brand new movie trailer that was previously shown to audiences at the New York Comic Con. It was a trailer that we expected to have online this evening. Unfortunately, we had no such luck, so to speak.
After a few more online games via the WhySoSerious site, we ended up on another page (found here), where we found the following:

And that, unfortunately, is where I lost interest in the whole thing. Why go through all that trouble just to tell us that it will be another week. I guess the jokers behind the viral marketing campaign got the last laugh today. And while we will certainly keep an eye on things for you, we wouldn’t want to get your hopes up regarding a high resolution version of this trailer any time soon. We did, however, come across this bootleg courtesy of TrailerAddict.com:
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8 Comments
April 29th, 2008 at 1:15 am
Nice trailer.
April 29th, 2008 at 2:02 am
Holy. Crap.
April 29th, 2008 at 8:14 am
Nice. This has some of the footage I saw at the Batman panel at Wizard World.
April 29th, 2008 at 9:13 am
if this trailer will be shown before IRONMAN, then holy sh*t!
Heath Ledger doesn’t even seem like he’s even acting, he seems like he’s just a lunatic with clown paint on his face, his voice sounds soooo different than I expected from the 2nd trailer, he sounds more manianic and psychotic.
But the real treat for us would ofcourse be Harvey Dent, he’s been in the shadows of TDK trailers and this time we see him and see alittle of his side. It’s going to be a great ending and it is definitley going to leave us hanging….in a good way.
April 29th, 2008 at 9:28 am
I think I see me in the background!
Gotta love being an extra.
April 29th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
SWEET!!!
April 29th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
whoa…
THAT’S THE TRAILER I’VE BEEN WAITING TO SEE!!!!!!!
April 29th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
Heath Ledger is already blowing me away.