From the villain banker stroking a dead rat to the “Self Destruct” option on the fort. From the “Bond girl’s” non-joke name to the stabbing/screwing device, this VH1 sponsored short “Homeless James Bond” should get its own show.
But we might only be saying that because Viacom picked up The Hills for another craptacular season.
Ok, our good friend David Jr has compiled his footage form the crazy Dark Knight Viral that took place on Monday in New York.
Some observations from Dave’s neck of the woods during the scavenger hunt:
1) It was unsupervised until we got to the theater, so it was literally hundreds of people, some in Joker make-up dashing through mid-town to honking cabs and dumbfounded city officials.
2) I saw a kid puking because he ran so much. I caught up with him later in line for the trailer and he told me that he had eaten pate (goose liver or something, right?) on a school trip before playing. What kind of school serves pate?
3) At one point, I was weaving through parked traffic, heading north on 8th avenue and ahead of me was a father pulling his 11 year-old son in between a truck and a taxi. Son: “I don’t think this is safe.”
4) The viral campaign was made for idiots. False info was spread pretty fast in the scramble. The worst one I heard about was a goon who, when asked what was going on by a passerby said: “I’m a bomb specialist. Run,” then took off towards the next clue. For shame.
At the end of the trailer, after abandoning our phones, there was a raffle for a roll of 35mm film. It was described as “maybe what you just saw, maybe not” and was given to a player who obviously didn’t have a 35mm projector back in Queens.
Luckily, someone has threaded the film, and given us our first look at the “Jokerized” trailer: The Dork Knight.
Pretty cool.
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Someone YouTube user with a Bat-Jones and some time has re-edited scenes from various Batman (1989) trailers to match up with The Dark Knight’s Trailer #2.
It’s pretty cool and worth a watch:
Don’t be too excited though, this is what the original Batman ’89 trailer looked like:
All those rumors about the DK marketing team doing the preview to sync up with the ’89 trailer are false.
This is nothing besides rampant fandom.
But it is our kind of awesome rampant fandom.
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Hello guys.
Boy, is our face red after abandoning you mid-day yesterday to run around the streets of New York with about 200 people counting various architectural oddities in the rain.
This wasn’t our first viral experience (we did some Nine Inch Nails/Year Zero work – also run by 4orty 2wo Entertainment), but it was by far the most chaotic.
And at the end, we got to see this (except projected at an AMC on 42nd St).
Here is what to notice about the trailer though: this is the first trailer that shows the actual plot of the film. The previous trailers have been great on action and Joker-reveals, but this newest DK trailer is all about the storyline of the film. Dawes dating Dent, Bruce having to become more vicious to fight the Joker, Joker and the crime bosses, it’s all there.
And we’re psyched.
Be back with a brief report soon, and probably video report sometime this week.
See you NY Clowns soon!
CLICK (quietly so no one notices)
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That ultra-cool Dark Knight poster we got sent last night actually came from a new Dark Knight viral site at http://whysoserious.com/itsallpartoftheplan/.
All you get is the above image with a countdown piece of paper at the bottom. When we took the poster off the site (still accessible by clicking the playing card stabbed into the wall), the scrap of paper said “4 Days.”
We can say with 90% certainty that the above website is where we are going to see the next Dark Knight Trailer, and it better be in three fucking days.
Too long have we been playing along with your silly online games, Joker, give us a damn trailer.
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Yesterday we tipped you off to Operation Slipknot, the current iteration of the Dark Knight Viral campaign by 4orty 2wo Entertainment.
42 really went all out yesterday with two new websites, a series of codes and one Gotham Hotel Concierge who was very difficult to get on the phone.
Regardless, the lucky few who were able to crack the codes and make the calls received a package this morning at 8AM.
The packages contained:
* A letter from Joseph Candoloro
* A cell phone & charger
* An itinerary for a flight to various cities depending on the package
* A fake ID
* A bond from Wayne Industries worth between $5,000 and $25,000, depending on the package
* A translation dictionary, depending on where the destination city was, with a Joker card placed inside.
This is pretty damn awesome, considering 42 had to DHL, UPS and FedEx 10 packages all over. Not to mention that the Joker card included in the manuals are of new design and prove that this game is the next Joker-fest. After weeks of supporting Harvey Dent, this is a welcome change.
The flight itineraries are for today, so let’s hope that we see something happen in the afternoon that might lead us to a trailer as soon as possible.
Check out pictures of the items right here!
Look at the e-mail we just got from Jim Gordon!
We played the ARG for about 5 minutes before getting back to work, but we’re fairly sure that whatever is at the end of this game will reveal a new trailer for The Dark Knight.
CLICK HERE FOR OPERATION SLIPKNOT!
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It’s been a little to long to come out with you pitch-perfect Juno parody guys. I’m sure you’ve been working long and hard on your sassy puns and such, but the backlash has been backlashed.
We weren’t even convinced that this Juno Parody by MadTV was worth it until the real-life consequences of having a hamburger phone came up.
LOLS! Or Lulz. Or whatever. We’re done with Juno, get it out of your system.
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Okay, y’all this Friday is going to be a bust unless Guillermo Del Toro decides he’s going to officially sign on to The Hobbit and Bioshock within the same hour.
As a result, we’ve started trolling YouTube, and we ran across the winners of the Toyota “Sketchies II” Contest, described thusly:
We challenged users to create an original sketch comedy video incorporating a musical instrument and a road trip. After reviewing all the entries, our expert panel, UTA Online Agents chose their Top 20! The community then voted for their Top 10 who had until April 6 to submit another video that incorporated the theme “living the dream” and the word “indubitably”. Now, you can vote for a winner who will take home $25,000 in cash, $15,000 in production gear and the opportunity to meet with UTA online agents, courtesy of the all new Toyota Corolla!
So, what wins $25K cash, $15K in production equipment and a shot at developing online content with UTA?
This:
Funny, we guess, but we should really quit blogging and start making short films for these contestarinos.
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Just a week or two ago, we wrote about the new web-series “Blood Cell” starring Jessica Rose, the former LonelyGirl15.
If you don’t know what that is, check it out on our old post or look it up on Wikipedia, because a small group of man-boys can only re-cap internet sensations so many times before they don’t feel like ever re-capping again.
The news about the LonelyGirl phenom is that they have been picked-up/bought-out by Spark Capital, Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen, Conrad Riggs of Mark Burnett Prods., Silicon Valley venture investor Ron Conway and former Google director Georges Harik.
For those of you who only see the company names in the above paragraph, that’s fine. Google, Netscape, Mark Burnett, venture capitalists: it’s big.
LG15/Telegraph Ave. Prods., which is being rebranded as EQAL (which stands for?), starts with a $5 million dollar investment to build a staff that will continually produce serialized interactive web stories.
More details and sourced quotes below the cut!
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It looks like Christopher Mintz-Plasse to join the ranks of Vern Troyer and the cast of Napoleon Dynamite.
Thank God he has uber-hot Kristin Bell to help get word out about the cause.
There’s a new Nike Viral ad that feature Kobe Bryant jumping over a moving Aston Martin that was made for stupid people that don’t know anything about the viral video market and how easy it is to spot something so obviously a shoe ad.
Somewhere, there are a thousand kids from frats and colleges e-mailing each other this “sick” clip of Kobe jumping a car, only using Kobe Bryant’s first name because that’s what internet idiots do.
Cool, but not subtle.
From Abbott and Costello to SNL to Upright Citizens Brigade, the IFC/Nerve list of the 50 Greatest Comedy Sketches is going to eat up hours of your time until Saturday hits (and we hope you take at least one day off from the internet).
We have to run to a premiere and send our intern to try and snag some face time with Shia and Julie Christie uptown, but these clips should keep you busy for our few hours of downtime.
In case you need any more convincing, here is one of our favorite sketches that, of course, has made the list.
It’s Monty Python’s “Idiot In Society”
Check out the whole thing HERE!
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It’s the brainchild of writer/director/producer/actor Tommy Wiseau. He cast his assistants in the film, he $6 million dollars and apparently made something so bad, it’s been building a cult following.
Wiseau even screens the film once a month in a Los Angeles theater where groups of people attend, dress as their favorite characters and yell at the screen.
Writes NPR:
During the movie, audience members shout out their own commentary about the dialogue, the sets — and notably, the framed photograph of a spoon that inexplicably reappears. Each time this happens, plastic spoons are thrown at the screen, in the can-do spirit of Rocky Horror Picture Show fans.
Wiseau has turned his back on what was obviously supposed to be high drama, labeling it a “black comedy” as he reaps meager profits from devoted fans.
Pirated and official DVDs are abound, we were shown one in the street a few nights ago by our friend Deena. You can also grab the DVD at the official site, but don’t mistake this as a plug.
Just watch this trailer and ask yourself if this is the sort of absurdity you’d be interested in. We’re interested.
