It doesn’t happen often, but there are times when I wish I had that boxed set of the original Batman films, just so I could fact-check stuff like this. Is the trailer below for Tim Burton’s Batman (1989) the real deal, in which case Chris Nolan and the marketing team on The Dark Knight are mimicking the earlier film’s ad campaign and are thus twisted geniuses far beyond anything I ever realized? Or did someone edit the trailer for Burton’s film together to mimic the trailer for Nolan’s film? Christopher Campbell, who starts out by writing as though the old movie’s trailer is genuine, leans towards the latter option in the end, and so do I. (For one thing, I doubt that a trailer back then would have followed the Warner logo with a wordy title card giving credit to DC Comics; my hunch is, that bit was pinched from the earlier film’s opening credits, to create a parallel to the extra logos that appear at the beginning of the new trailer.) But I kind of wish Nolan and his team were the sort of twisted geniuses who might have done something like this.
http://www.collegehumor.com/moogaloop/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1813453&fullscreen=1
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APR 29 UPDATE: Speaking of Dark Knight trailers, check out this leaked video of the new trailer due sometime this week:
http://www.gametrailers.com/remote_wrap.php?umid=210072
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APR 30 UPDATE: Here is another version of the new trailer, which has apparently been “defaced” by the Joker.
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