“I’m a man of my word. I guar­an­tee every­one here is going to die tonight.”

So says Hol­ly­wood Chicago’s descrip­tion of The Dark Knight teaser (via pro­jec­tion­ist Fran­cis Farmer) … which is dif­fer­ent to SuperHeroHype’s pre­vi­ous report. The cause? Hol­ly­wood Chicago claims that there will be two sep­a­rate videos, one for The Simp­sons, another for Comic-Con.

Here is their full trailer description:

It was just the new Bat­man logo for 50 sec­onds with light rays slowly destroy­ing it. There was dia­logue between Bat­man and Alfred.

The last line is: “Some peo­ple just want to watch the world burn.” When the logo gets destroyed, its last piece flies toward the cam­era, turns and has a Joker card on it.

Bruce Wayne says some­thing about “they crossed a line this time”. Alfred says: “They put all their hopes in a man they didn’t understand.”

Joker says some­thing like: “I’m a man of my word. I guar­an­tee every­one here is going to die tonight.”

This is clas­si­fied as a rumor.  Not long left now.

Super­Hero­Hype got the scoop again (via ‘BDE’) with this one, a report of what we shall be see­ing in the upcom­ing offi­cial video release — how accu­rate this is we’ll have to wait and see:

I have seen The Dark Knight Teaser. I don’t want to reveal everything…

It starts out with the WB logo grac­ing the screen, fol­lowed by the DC logo and the Leg­endary pic­tures logo. The screen goes black.

It opens back up as a com­mer­cial paid for by the friends of Har­vey Dent. We are shown shots of him talk­ing, mak­ing pub­lic speeches, and walk­ing in a suit, while a deep voice comes on and talks about Har­vey Dent. A generic politi­cian commercial.

What seems to be halfway through the com­mer­cial, it is inter­rupted by sta­tic, and blacks out. Out of nowhere a crys­tal clear image comes onto the screen of a blacked out man with large win­dows behind him. The cam­era slowly zooms in on him. He’s talk­ing (about what I won’t say) and as he fin­ishes he begins laugh­ing. Light­ning strikes, light­ing up his face, as the laugh­ter grows more manic. Cut to black.

The Bat­man Begins (now The Dark Knight’s bat) emblem is shown with the words The Dark Knight. Then it says Sum­mer 2008 and has the web­site at the bottom.

What is said… is a sur­prise that I must keep for now. It gave me chills.

Note this on your cal­en­dars, this will be the first big video — a must watch. Joblo, Super­Hero­Hype and now a num­ber of other online news out­lets have con­firmed through their asso­ci­ated sources that with Warner Brother’s The Simp­sons movie, in selected screen­ings, they will pre­view the first teaser trailer of The Dark Knight on July 27th, coin­cid­ing with the Warner Bros. day at Comic Con 2007 — a mere coincidence?

Let’s wait and see!

This is the big Bat­man news story of the day, Cil­lian Mur­phy has been spot­ted on the set of The Dark Knight, as the Scare­crow. There’s some footage online over at YouTube, which pretty much gives away the scene and hence has some spoil­ers. Noth­ing too supris­ing in the video so I advise just wait­ing for the movie, if you can. Super­Hero­Hype has the full story from bud­ding Paparazzi ‘type­orocks’. Here’s one of the shots:

And here’s the infa­mous Bat Sig­nal, the best can­did shot we’ve seen yet, as snapped by Jeremy Farmer:

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: