The Joker serves up a wicked new Dark Knight poster

(Thanks to Kyle and Stephanie for the heads-up on this one.)

The marketing campaign for The Dark Knight has reached mad-scientist levels of deranged genius courtesy of The Joker’s tricks, which have yielded all kinds of cool treats.

Every day I wonder if he’s going to blow up my blog for talking about him so much, or send me a cake as a thank-you.

But it would probably be an explosive cake.

Or maybe he’d just like to hang out and read some comics.

Anyway, the rascally Joker has compiled a scrapbook of all his previous scams and schemes on his Why So Serious website.

Just click the items on the checklist for a fun, spooky history lesson.

And!

The latest awesome item to be revealed on the site is this wicked new poster, which you can click on or save to see a much larger version:

What is The Joker trying to say? I think he’s trying to tell Batman that the two of them might not be as different as Batman would like to think they are.

July 18, gang.

It’s going to be monumental.

NEWS FLASH: Arrested DEVELOPMENT! As in, MOVIE!

YES!

Jeffrey Tambor, who played Bluth twins George and Oscar on Arrested Development in one of the greatest and most hilarious dual roles in television history, said something very interesting at the premiere of his latest film, Hellboy II: The Golden Army.

Entertainment Weekly has the scoop:

Bluth family lovers, rejoice! Former Arrested Development costar Jeffrey Tambor has confirmed published reports that a movie version of the Emmy-winning Fox comedy is in the works. “After months of speculation, I think we have finally figured out for sure that we are indeed doing an Arrested Development movie,” Tambor told EW.com at the premiere of Hellboy II on Saturday, the closing night of the L.A. Film Festival. “I am very excited about that. I love that cast and crew and I felt like we had more to say.”

SHAZAM!

Here’s hoping they serve salmon rolls at the premiere. In Heaven.

“How many times do I gotta tell this concession guy chicken wings?”

Rest assured I will be covering the living hell out of any further Development developments.

And I hope they find a place for Bob Loblaw and J. Walter Weatherman.

And while we're on a Wonder Woman kick …

… more of the cast of the upcoming Wonder Woman direct-to-DVD animated movie has been announced.

Back in January, I told you that Keri Russell had been cast as the voice of Wonder Woman.

This was excellent news. Wonder Woman must convey strength and grace and warmth and kindness, and I really think Keri has all of those things.

Now Rosario Dawson’s official site has posted this article naming a few more of the cast members.

Why would Rosario do that?

Because she’s one of them.

Though it would have been better if she was just posting it because she’s a big Wonder Woman fan, and she’d find my blog and see that I’m a big Wonder Woman fan, too, and she’d write me an email and we’d correspond for a bit and get to know each other, and then she’d come visit me and we’d go for long walks and fall in love one sunny afternoon by that big tree in the park.

But that’s okay.

Because it really is good news that Rosario is a voice in the Wonder Woman movie, because she has great pipes and she’s no stranger to playing tough roles and she really does like comic books.

In fact, she writes one called Occult Crimes Taskforce.

Anyway, Rosario is providing the voice of Artemis, one of Wonder Woman’s fellow Amazons.

Also joining the cast is Virginia Madsen, who’s had quite the career resurgence lately, but I’ve been on her bandwagon for years since seeing her in Highlander 2. She’ll be providing the voice of Wonder Woman’s mother, Queen Hippolyta.

And then there’s Alfred Molina, one of the greatest character actors of all time, as Ares, the god of war. Molina was Doctor Octopus in Spider-Man 2 and the “throw me the idol, I throw you the whip” guy in Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Frida’s husband in Frida, etc.

He’s one of those guys who disappears into a character, and I know he’ll be amazing.

Last but not least, we’ve got Nathan Fillion as Steve Trevor, the American pilot whose plane crashes into Paradise Island, the home of the Amazons.

Fillion is a genre hero for his work as Captain Mal Reynolds in Firefly and Serenity, and he was excellent as the small-town doctor opposite none other than Keri Russell in the excellent Waitress, which I really liked.

What a cast!

A preview for this movie will appear on the Batman: Gotham Knight DVD that arrives on July 8.

More news on the Wonder Woman project as it happens!