Hey! Did you hear there’s a new Batman movie coming out? Somehow knowledge of this slipped past me? I have to catch up. Who’s in it? Any good bad guys? Does Katie Holmes return? Details people, Details! No one is talking about this! I guess I’ll have to draw all my conclusions from this new movie poster they just released.

After months of teasing, leaking pictures, and viral marketing campaigns, we are finally treated to a legit trailer of the new Batman movie, The Dark Knight. This is great since we can now have great shots of Heath Ledger’s Joker and Christian Bale’s Batman. It might be time to start comparisons between Ledger and Jack Nicholson’s portrayals of The Joker now. This trailer leaves us with just a few questions, the main one being why no Harvey Dent/Aaron Eckhart shots?

TRAILER: The Dark Knight

An image of a completely decked out Heath Ledger as The Joker will appear on the cover of the January 2008 of Empire Magazine. Thanks to the wonders of the internet you can see it now. The much hyped sequel to the Batman prequel (um?) The Dark Knight is due out in 2008.

The magazine also sat down with Ledger to discuss the role.

This weekend at Comic-Con, a huge “Joker Army Recruitment” (aka scavenger hunt) was held in an effort to promote the new Batman movie, The Dark Knight. The hunt went down after there was a new website www.whysoserious.com telling people to meet in a particular spot to join the Joker army.

Fans showed up with faces painted to look like the joker, searching for clues on the street and phone numbers written in the sky making them enter a series of passwords into the website to unlock movie stills, The Joker’s laugh and finally a teaser trailer for the movie. For those that were not in attendance the good news it that there’s a wrap up that can be seen online.

VIEW: High-Res Joker / Rachel Dawes movie still
MP3: The Joker Laugh
TRAILER: The Dark Knight teaser trailer
PICTURES: The surveillance / Joker Wannabes
VIEW: The “Police Report” of the event