The Dark Knight BOF: Problems with Ledger???

[The Sage]

I think it's a mistake to focus on the villains too much. You're starting to repeat the mistakes of the past franchise...

Huh? I said one brief shot of him, not focus the entire teaser on him. Same with the teaser poster. The poster could be just like what Jett had described, but with that small excerpt of the Joker. How is that focusing on the villains too much? It's just alluding who the villain will be. You make it sound like I want a teaser poster of Batman and Joker facing each other.

 

[Boom]

Huh? I said one brief shot of him, not focus the entire teaser on him. Same with the teaser poster. The poster could be just like what Jett had described, but with that small excerpt of the Joker. How is that focusing on the villains too much? It's just alluding who the villain will be. You make it sound like I want a teaser poster of Batman and Joker facing each other.

Because they don't need to show him in the teaser AT ALL in order to allude to him being the villain, especially a teaser that might come out a YEAR before the movie.

Reuse the ending of Batman Begins, and when Batman flips over the card, we hear a psychotic laughter. Cut to black.

 

[E-Mack]

Because they don't need to show him in the teaser AT ALL in order to allude to him being the villain, especially a teaser that might come out a YEAR before the movie.

Reuse the ending of Batman Begins, and when Batman flips over the card, we hear a psychotic laughter. Cut to black.

On the same token, we don't need to show Batman either to allude what the film is about. Not even the title. It's a year away, so I say just have it be 10 seconds of a bat-logo with the release date. Bam. Our perfect teaser.

 

[The Sage]

Because they don't need to show him in the teaser AT ALL in order to allude to him being the villain, especially a teaser that might come out a YEAR before the movie.

Reuse the ending of Batman Begins, and when Batman flips over the card, we hear a psychotic laughter. Cut to black.

Or you could hear the psychotic laughter with a brief flash of the Joker's face to spice it up a bit and whet the audience's appetites.

But personally I think that's a bit low-key. I understand a low-key teaser for the Batman Begins since it was to get across that this wasn't like the past franchise and needs to be taken seriously, I don't think the same approach is needed here. Let's kick the hype up five notches. It's Batman vs. Joker, why play it so low-key?

 

[Zilleraut #66]

BBOOOOO... I want Ian McShane for the Penguin. F'n C'suckers.

 

[Sharkboy]

You know with the recent superman bomb, ive realised that if it was supermans time in the 70s early 80s, batmans time in the late 80s early 90's. Then now IS spider-mans time for no1 superhero, theres really nothing we can do about it, the times are a changing. The best we can hope for is that this movie breaks even enough to warrant a third film. Id much rather have a small cultish highly praised bat trilogy than a larger than life crapfest. I just dont think the world cares about batman too much right now. I do think nolans movies will be remembered as classics more than any other super hero movie out there though. Which is all that matters to me.

 

[BatMatt]

BBOOOOO... I want Ian McShane for the Penguin. F'n C'suckers.

Deadwood
I'm sure as long as WB gives Nolan enough time to make his teaser exactly how he wants it, it'll kick ass. Imagine the Begins teaser ending with a shot of Batman on a building, cape billowing, instead of the pictures? F'in sweet

 

[The Batman]

show joker at comic con....not the teaser...

 

[Cinemaman]

Well, anyway they should show Joker in trailers and tv-spots. Just 3-4 shots will be enough.

 

[BatFitz]

All I want is a picture and an example of the acting....! Please!

 

[The Guard]

The first teaser for BEGINS was wordy as hell and very melodramatic. "They told me there was nothing out there...nothing to fear." One wonders if the same will happen for THE DARK KNIGHT.

 

[Katsuro]

The first teaser for BEGINS was wordy as hell and very melodramatic. "They told me there was nothing out there...nothing to fear." One wonders if the same will happen for THE DARK KNIGHT.

Best teaser ever. Although, I hadn't actually seen it until after I'd seen Begins. I can imagine if I was highly anticipating this film back then, and all I got was a teaser with nothing to really show, i'd be kinda upset.

 

[Cinemaman]

I was disappointed with BB teaser, so they should make TDK teaser with more action and more Batman shots this time.

 

[mcflytrap]

I'm sticking with my guts here, mate. $250 million tops .

You're probably right....but I'd love for it to be a huge hit like B89 was.

 

[mcflytrap]

Because they don't need to show him in the teaser AT ALL in order to allude to him being the villain, especially a teaser that might come out a YEAR before the movie.

Reuse the ending of Batman Begins, and when Batman flips over the card, we hear a psychotic laughter. Cut to black.

Something like this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJf65Q-CraM

 

[The Guard]

How about we let Nolan/WB decide how much they want to reveal, eh?

 

[Two-Face]

Something like this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJf65Q-CraM

That was really good!

 

[nolan's roll'n]

That was really good!

Yeah, it was.

 

[batman7289]

ledger will rock
y wouldnt u wanna play the joker
only a select few get to

 

[The Shape]

I am not agreed with Jett.

But I really think WB need to change their crappy marketing strategy, which doesn't help their blockbusters in box office.

There should be more hypeness, more huge promotion and much better trailers.

They should learn some lessons from Marvel movies strategy.

I liked the marketing for BB.

Most of these big budget movies, namely the Spider-man series, just throw all kinds of things at people. Too much, too soon. Look at Spider-man 3. The movie's a year from release, and sooooo much has been seen and revealed.

With BB, the WB showed enough to get some people in the seats, but they didn't throw the film in people's faces. No Happy Meal campaigns or an insane amount of trailers/TV spots. They let audiences find the movie by themselves almost, and that's what happened. The reviews were great and it made some money, which is pretty good for a franchise that was dead for almost 10 years.

Now, with TDK, the WB knows that people are ready for Batman again and can hype the movie a little more.

 

[ChrisBaleBatman]

Yeah, I think now that it's been revived, they can market the film more now.

But, no McDonalds kids meals stuff......that stuff is just too kiddy for a film like Batman.

 

[The Sage]

Yeah, I think now that it's been revived, they can market the film more now.

But, no McDonalds kids meals stuff......that stuff is just too kiddy for a film like Batman.

You're right, they should do Hooters meals.

 

[kytrigger]

^^ I agree. The marketing for BB was great IMO. It peaked their interest but didn't show too much. It let the movie itself get people excited for Batman again.

Now that people are excited again though, I think the marketing should be a little bit bigger for TDK.

 

[E-Mack]

Most of these big budget movies, namely the Spider-man series, just throw all kinds of things at people. Too much, too soon. Look at Spider-man 3. The movie's a year from release, and sooooo much has been seen and revealed.

I'd LOVE for you to list the things they've actually released to the general public. We've got a one-sheet, a kick-ass teaser, and uh....oh wait. That's it.

It's a testament to SM's marketing team that they release so little but get the biggest buzz out of any other franchise. No less, with the film being a year away. TDK NEEDS to follow this route.

 

[Seen]

The first teaser for BEGINS was wordy as hell and very melodramatic. "They told me there was nothing out there...nothing to fear." One wonders if the same will happen for THE DARK KNIGHT.

'Wordy'? Every teaser is wordy -- the teaser for SUPERMAN RETURNS was wordy, the teaser for X-MEN: THE LAST STAND was wordy (Xavier's voiceover) and so forth. I found the BEGINS teaser to be absolutely perfect in execution -- the right tone was established fairly early on.