The Joker’s "Why So Serious?" plan is in motion!

Update

They changed the website again, and the trailer links are gone. But you can still see the trailer here.

Update

You can watch and download THE DARK KNIGHT TEASER TRAILER right HERE!

Update

New photo of The Joker (Heath Ledger), Rachel Dawes (Maggie Gyllenhaal) and a knife:


Click it for a larger version!

Remember last night when I told you about The Joker’s new website at WhySoSerious.com?

Go there RIGHT NOW because something big is going down across from the convention center in San Diego where Comic-Con International is happening!

You start by calling this number: (800) 395-9646

… which was revealed by JETS in the air over the convention center. (Big thanks to Batman on Film for the video.)

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DB4luSNxHl8]

The phone message from The Joker’s captive reveals the first password, and the following passwords are revealed by following the clues on each page:

inside joke

jack the ripper

mountebank

(Don’t forget to click on the mp3 to hear The Joker laughing!)

crime of passion

head games

(Move your mouse over the defaced dollar bill and turn up your speakers.)

74 bars

(Don’t forget to click on The Joker’s police report!)

vallandigham

gaslamp dan haslam

unforgivable

(Click on the word “knife” to see this photo of The Joker and Rachel!)

baseball bat

(There’s another Joker file to click on.)

larceny

(Get it? That’s what the missing letters spell.)

starve

reaper

2971759

And then the final page is right here. There’s another Joker File, and a little flickering trailer link between “Nobody goes home empty handed!” and “Thanks for the smiles!”

Update

Sorry for my extended absence, guys … I was at work when I started this and luckily didn’t get fired. :) I do have a friend there, but the last thing I heard from him was that he was inside the Warner Bros. presentation. I haven’t heard from him since. I am at home now and will start updates again. Thanks for your help and your patience!

Update

Sonny posted this in the comments: “When everyone got to the final spot, a limo pulled up and one guy jumped in and was rushed off, apparently he won and got the ‘job.’ Everyone else was given a clown mask and told that their partners online would have a thank you gift at the end of the challenge. Guessing that’s the trailer.” Sonny also says, “2971759 was the limo plate number,” and therefore the final password to unlock the trailer. Thanks!

Update

Still no word from my friend who’s there, but I’m not sure he’s actually outside at the event. When last we spoke, he was inside the convention center at the Warner Bros. panel. I’ll let you know as soon as I know something!

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I’m going back through from the beginning and making every password a link. Click on the link, and that’s the password for that page.

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For those of you having trouble downloading the trailer, here’s my description!

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I’m still going through it again and updating the links. Thanks again for your patience, and I cannot thank all of you enough for your contributions to the mission. Each and every one of you rocks. Don’t ever forget it.

Update

My friend Kareem just called, and he said that Warner Bros. didn’t even show the teaser at the panel. Come on!

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Thanks again to all of you who participated! I’m off for the evening. More to come soon, I’m sure, if any new announcements are made at Comic-Con. This is only going to be the best movie ever.

Update

Watch and download the teaser trailer for The Dark Knight right HERE!

Update

They changed the website again, and the trailer links are gone. But you can still see the trailer here.

130 comments

  2. matt says:

    i seriously think they changed the “dr.death” password to help lower the lag on the higher up questions…I JUST WANA KNOW THE ENDING!

  10. Matt says:

    Has anyone been able to download that full teaser file? I’ve seen half but the rest is still downloading, and it just shot some crazy static fuzz into my eardrums, scaring the living crap out of me at work.

  12. Nick says:

    I’m downloading it, not streaming so as not to see or hear anything until I have the whole file on my desktop. 25% done and the speed is falling. I expect 2+ hours to finish.

  27. John says:

    There’s at least one “bootleg commercial” on YouTube with moving Ledger footage that’s totally make and made by a guy on his computer. Beware.

  28. Matt says:

    P.S. All due respect to fan editors and trailer makers but this is the time when it makes it impossible to look at YouTube and figure out what you should be watching.

  29. John says:

    I agree about fans who make “trailers” — no matter how talented they might be — and post them on YouTube. Even if the original creator doesn’t say it’s real, there’s always some idiot who’ll think it’s real and start sending it around as such.

  31. Nick says:

    @Matt:

    Yeah, that one downloaded in roughly 15 seconds for me. Very fast for some reason. Too bad there’s no video.

  34. Shakeynate says:

    1) The first clue was offered by calling 800-395-9646.
    Answer: inside joke

    2) A riddle about the women Jack the Ripper murdered.
    Answer: Jack the Ripper

    3) An audio file of Joker’s laugh in morse code:
    Answer: mountebank

    4) An anagram.
    Answer: crime of passion

    5) Joker says: “Why so serious?” The clue you have to get from someone on site at Comic-Con.
    Answer: head games

    6) Something about prison. It gives you this link to his case file.
    Answer: 74 bars

    7) Answer: Clement Vallandigham

    8) Answer: gaslamp dan haslam

    9) Answer: unforgivable

    10) Answer: baseball bat

    11) Answer: larceny

    12) Answer: reaper

  35. Mike says:

    What’s the password for the girlguide cookies page. Anyone?
    (currently trying reaper. but the post says that reaper is for a page about a bomb)

  38. Brandon says:

    i’m having trouble too, Mike. reaper isn’t working for me, and everything else thus far has… must be something different.

  40. Mike says:

    And yet I’m not getting “try again” messages from the site when I type reaper. So nothing’s happening.
    Two theories:
    1. massive lag. (and I mean absolutely huge server slowdown)
    2. button glitch.
    … Probably the first.

    Also, anyone else find the title, ‘anticipation,’ a little too appropriate for those of us slogging through online?

  42. Brandon says:

    anticipation indeed… well, at least it was… patience is a more fitting title now. when i type reaper it does say ‘try again’…

  47. Mike says:

    Hmmm… It’s been a while since I’ve gotten a try again message.
    Maybe it is glitchy.

    And I’m willing to bet that the event itself was over a while ago. The surveillance page stopped updating a while back.

    I wonder how it ended for the people on the ground…

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