3:10 to Yuma is still a few days away from a UK release, so publicty teams on this side of the pond are keeping on it, working busily.
Here's an example: five clips from the film have now been made available. Download them - one, two, three, four and five.
If you look at the file titles, it seems to suggest that, perhaps, five more clips will be coming soon.
Download the Rescue Dawn: The Jungle is the Prison clip in 480p, 720p or 1080p. Save the file as zahniac.mov or similar to make it work.
MSN have a clip of the Bat-Pod on this morning's Today show. Get a good look at the vehicle and - if memory serves, I have her name correct - Meredith Viera atop it like Bale's double will have to be.
[EDIT: And thanks to Verbal, you can now directly download this video for the ages. He went awry at first, then sorted it out. Brilliant stuff]
See Bale and Crowe be wild, west and wily in the trailer for 3:10 to Yuma. Choose from low, medium and high resolution versions of the standard definition version or 480p, 720p and 1080p versions of high definition.
Rename the file horsemurderers.mov (or similar) to ensure it works.
Here's a look at the Batsuit as it appears in Entertainment Weekly as of today - click upon it to make it bigger. AintItCool posted the scan first, I believe. They've got the contacts - as I've said before, and will doubtlessly say again. Yep, they really seem to be most scoopers' first port of call.
After yesterday's first look at some scenes from the Dark Knight script, here's... well, today's second look at some scenes from the Dark Knight script.
SPOILER ALERT
Remember the scene towards the top of Tim Burton's Batman, in which the criminals discuss their fear of The Bat? There's something similar here - downplaying the supernatural element discussed in Burton's film, therefore toning down any idea that superstition plays a part in fear, but not removing it completely:
A DEALER and a BUYER are in the middle of a transaction.
DEALER
I want eighty for the bag.
BUYER
Eighty? It was sixty last week.
DEALER
Inflation. Ain't it a bitch.
The Buyer digs in his pocket. The Signal appears in the air. The Dealer spots it and steps back.
DEALER (CONT'D)
No, man. I don't like it tonight.
BUYER
What're you, superstitious? You got more chance of winning the powerball than running into him...
Inflation? Come on. Couldn't this simply pass without the padding? Or couldn't they at least have something less predictable and insipid to say. Clearly not an important scene, but as clearly not an interesting one either. We'll see when the movie hits if either the buyer or the dealer do run into Batman, but if they don't... well... I'm at a loss as to what other point this may have. Maybe Batman is about to intervene here and then spots the signal? Who knows.
Batman does turn up in another scene. A 'babbling junkie', complete with the stereotyped' "bugs crawling all over me" hallucination, is being violently interrogated by a mobster's bodyguard:
BODYGUARD
Who sold you the stash?
JUNKIE
They're going to eat my insides! PLEASE!
The Bodyguard whips out a gun.
BODYGUARD
Come closer. I'm gonna unscrew your brain.
DOGS START BARKING. The Bodyguard looks around, scared.
BODYGUARD (CONT'D)
(nervous)
He's here.
This being a Batman film, we also take a trip to Arkham Assylum. Cheer now. There we meet a prisoner that, I believe, is The Joker:
THE PRISONER sits, smiling, content. Stephens guards the door.
THE PRISONER
I want my phone call.
STEPHENS
That's nice.
The Prisoner looks at his hands, which have been cuffed again.
THE PRISONER
How many of your friends have I killed?
STEPHENS
I'm a twenty year man. I can tell the difference between punks who need a little lesson in manners... (crack his knuckles) And the freaks like you who would just enjoy it.
Stephens folds his arms. Turns away.
STEPHENS (CONT'D)
(quiet)
And you killed six of my friends.
...if that prisoner isn't The Joker, I'll be very surprised. The Joker is definitely the subject of a conversation between Commissioner Gordon and a 'terrorized cop'. In that scene, some cops have been stripped and bound, and The Joker and his crew made off with their uniforms and guns. Does this tie into the bank siege? Does The Joker pull a switch, putting the hostages into the clown masks with him and his cohorts disguising themselves as cops? Possibly. Pure speculation.
Part of The Joker's plan does seem to involve drugging folk. Witness the fate of a Thug in a holding cell:
One of the men, walks over, clutching at his belly.
FAT THUG
I don't feel good.
DETECTIVE
You're a cop killer. You're lucky to be feeling anything below the neck.
FAT THUG
(agony)
Please. My insides hurt.
DETECTIVE
Step away from the bars.
FAT THUG
The boss said he would make the voices go away. he said he would go inside and replace them with bright lights. Like Christmas.
DETECTIVE
That's great. Please step-
The Fat Thug COLLAPSES. The Detective grabs his radio.
DETECTIVE (CONT'D)
I need a medic in holding.
Bright lights? Like Christmas? Either a) this Thug is a weird simpleton; b) his dialogue is drug induced; or c) there's some dodgy writing afoot. A little bit of a) and b), perhaps?
This film is quite the cop film, in many ways. Prisoners, cells, uniforms abound. Compare this to Batman Returns, say, in which the police play no real part. The more I read, the more The Dark Knight is coming across like a redo of 70s police/detective dramas, this time with a great hulking, rubber suited lunatic at the heart of it. And a man with green hair.
Not a bad approach at all, and a clear continuation of Batman Begins which was, truth be told, rooted both in Burton's first Batman and a whole heap of comics.
So, is The Dark Knight going to compare favourably to The Taking of Pelham 123, Night Moves, Dog Day Afternoon, Klute, Assault on Precinct 13 or Dirty Harry?
Not the best of them, I'm sure.
More later. Watch this space. And check out the first installment in the meantime, if you haven't already done so.
[EDIT: There are/is a newer installment(s) of this script report now online. Come in the front page to see everything, or dabble with the labels below]
James Mangold and crew got a bit miffed when I posted some 3:10 to Yuma pics a few months back. When I removed them, they promised to send me official snaps as soon as there were any. Now, however, they've released a couple of official images to Cinempire and not said a word to me. Like, whatever, man...
You can see the images below. Thankfully, I can surf the web and find images myself.
There's apparently some second unit stuff going on in Chicago right now. That daft car's looking pretty similar to last time round if you ask me. Can you spot the difference?
Lionsgate have spirited the pictures away... for now. I still have them, and when I can do something with them that isn't going to cause trouble for folk, then I'll do it.
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