I’m not one for this kind of presenting, I prefer my reporters straight up and British, BBC style. Aside from that, here’s a nice little video clip from NBC’s Today Show, revealing the ‘hard to straddle’ monstrosity. It is literally huge.

By the way, sorry for the site’s down time, we got hit pretty bad by traffic and we needed to reimplement a lot of stuff. But we’re back!

This is it, the new contraption ‘created’ by Lucius Fox, the vehicle rumored to be unveiled this week. It is the Batpod, or bat-cycle, whichever you prefer. It officially goes on view tomorrow at the 2007 New York Licensing show.

It is a monster, and not only is it ridable, it is fast. The wheels are 508 mm in diameter and it boasts machine guns, cannons and a grappling hook. There is no handlebar, instead you steer with your shoulders that lock into two shields. To ride this you need to lie belly down, on the ‘tank’, which can rise and lower itself in order to fit through the smallest of gaps.

There are six of these beauties in total and their cost is unknown. They were designed by the man behind the Batman Begins Batmobile, Nathan Crowley and built by Chris Corbould. It will be ridden by French stuntman Jean-Pierre Goy, who has been testing the bikes at an undisclosed secret location in England over the past month.

I think we all can’t wait to see this thing in action!

The spy cameras, cell phone shots and Christian Bale voyeurisms continue to pour in. This time Sarah Piper Brown snapped these shots with her phone on June 16th at a Chicago set.

The novelty and interest in shots like these will soon dissipate so I shall not be posting all of the candid-back-alley pictures or videos received, I feel it may be damaging towards the integrity of the film and will inevitably be incredibly spoilerific.

Right place at the right time man Yunerz has snatched some shots of Maggie Gyllenhaal and Aaron Eckhart playing Rachel Dawes and Harvey Dent respectively, right next to his place of work. This is the first time we have seen Katie Holmes’ replacement. Many have viewed this swap-over favourably and are looking forward to seeing Gyllenhaal’s performance.

Whilst these are candid shots, the chosen image (above) does show a considerable likeness between the two portrayals by different actresses. For more images, including Harvey Dent, I recommend visiting the users’ gallery over at flickr.

Screenwriter/Executive Producer John August has laid down his views regarding Disney’s planned release date for the Prince of Persia adaptation, he’s not so sure:

Several sites have reported that Disney has picked July 10, 2009 as the release date for Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. My guess is that this got written on a whiteboard at some strategic planning meeting, in answer to the question, “Hey, if we made that Prince of Persia movie, when would we release it?”

It’s a perfectly good date, but I have no idea if there will be a movie to show. I don’t know if it’s getting made, or who’s directing, or who’s starring. No one knows, not even the people signing the checks. It’s still a project in development.

John’s Site.

Maybe late summer 2009? We’ll have to see how things develop.

I always seem to be mentioning these guys, Latino Review have posted this shot, which seems to be legitimate, it’s hard to tell because the article has been taken down. It is being touted as the Joker’s new clown car, likely to be a vehicle that he and/or his henchmen use to travel in. I personally think it’s perfect and look forward to seeing more of the same.

Here it is, complete with two-toned purple paint job et al:

What’s more, we could be getting a glance at a new BAT vehicle next week, according to a Warner Bros. press statement.

EDIT: Seems like this could be a fake using Photoshop, having done some research, although it is a cool and interesting concept that I am sure many people would like to see expanded upon.

While we are on the case of rumors, let’s look at a potential (i.e. likely to be fake) teaser poster, via Film Ick:

EDIT: Warner Brothers have released a high resolution version of this image. Check it out here. 

And so the images continue, this time Entertainment Weekly has provided us the goods in an interview with costume designer Lindy Hemming. Most importantly, with photo, lovingly scanned in for our pleasure by C.Zejr. All the details are in the picture itself, this post needs little commentary.

Now that we have had our first taste of The Joker and Harvey Dent, some more delicious images from production of The Dark Knight have begun streaming out. The first shows Nolan overseeing a smartly blurred-out Joker prologue scene, the second reveals some, assumed to be, henchmen of the Joker. From the promo shots and now these images we can already see that this film is building to become darker and more sinister than Batman Begins, inline with the uttered notion that “things need to get worse before they can get better”.