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”.

From the offi­cial web­site, this is the first of The Dark Knight pro­mo­tion shots:

Sec­ond comes Har­vey Dent’s pro­mo­tional poster, once again via the Warner Bros. site:

And thirdly, the first unveil­ing of Heath Ledger as The Joker which slowly emerged via a viral mar­ket­ing cam­paign “I believe in Har­vey Dent TOO”:

An announce­ment was made in July 2006 that Chris­t­ian Bale would con­tinue in the role of Bat­man in the sequel to Bat­man Begins. Warner Broth­ers also announced that Heath Ledger would play the role of The Joker, with actors actors Paul Bettany,Lachy Hulme, Adrien Brody and Robin Williams all pre­vi­ously rumored. At this same time Warner Bros. offi­cially ini­ti­ated the pro­duc­tion of The Dark Knight, using David S. Goyer’s treat­ment, co-written by Nolan.

The role of Har­vey Dent, Dis­trict Attor­ney of Gotham City and oth­er­wise known as Two-Face, was cast in Feb­ru­ary 2007, to be played by Aaron Eck­hart. Around this time, despite pre­vi­ous men­tions that Katie Holmes would return as Rachel Dawes, it was made known that Holmes would not be involved in the sequel, due mainly to sched­ul­ing con­flicts. In March this year Mag­gie Gyl­len­haal became the replace­ment. Anthony Michael Hall, of 1980s Break­fast Club fame, also has an unnamed role in the film.

Nolan’s inter­pre­ta­tion of the Bat­man fran­chise shall con­tinue to be very dif­fer­ent to that of its rede­ces­sors.  The Joker char­ac­ter is based pri­mar­ily on his first two appear­ances in the Bat­man comics, as well as Alan Moore’s one-shot comic book Bat­man: The Killing Joke.  Prin­ci­ple pho­tog­ra­phy began in April 2007, pushed back from March, begin­ning in Chicago between April 18th and 24th — shoot­ing scenes for the Joker’s pro­logue, as of June 9th they have returned to con­tinue film­ing there until early Sep­tem­ber. Ten­ta­tive film­ing loca­tions also include Lon­don, Liv­er­pool, Los Ange­les, Bal­ti­more, and Hong Kong.

Hans Zim­mer and  James New­ton Howard have con­firmed that they shall pro­vide The Dark Knight’s score.