This ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ teaser trailer is fake

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A “teaser trailer” for The Dark Knight Rises is making it’s way around the internet today. While it looks pretty cool, I’m pretty sure it’s fake. /Film has a great break down, explaining why the trailer we’re looking at isn’t legit. The trailer was supposedly played before Green Lantern, but if that was the case, why wouldn’t we see more people talking about it on Facebook or Twitter? There have been rumors that the real teaser trailer for The Dark Knight Rises will be attached to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 next month.

Update: batman11 points out a major mistake the creator of this teaser trailer made, adding more evidence that it’s not official.

If you guys need any further proof that this is fake, one need look no further than the green band MPAA warning. It says “The Following Preview Has Been Approved For All Audiences.” About a year (and change) ago, the MPAA changed their phrasing, and all big green band trailers now say “The Following Preview Has Been Approved For Appropriate Audiences.” For a quick example, just check out last night’s Harry Potter trailer. Or check out the Green Lantern trailers. Or anything else of recent (again, within a year and a bit) release…LOL. Even Inception had “appropriate” as opposed to “all.” For more reference, TDK’s teaser, from 2007, understandably had “all.”

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  • Perkons

    No voice acting, no footage, no real logo – all those alone prove this is fake.
    I bet it’ll be next month when teaser trailer for The Dark Knight Rises will be released. If I remember right, July was month when Batman Begins, The Dark Knight and Inception teaser trailers were released to audience.

  • Anonymous

    FAKE ! I am not buying that , that looks the REAL deal , and it makes PERFECT sense to have somerthing infront of GREEN LANTERN + it looks like a real cinema , i think this is LEGIT , and even if its not , it is still AWSOME , i want more THUNDER and LIGHTNING in TDKR, just like BEGINS ,BANE is going to bring a SH*T STORM , on BATMAN !

    • http://grauskala.blogspot.com/ One_Eyed_Willie

      This is really weird… the thematics matches perfectly with the flick’s proposal – storms, lightning.. even the chosen colour is cool: deep red! Damn, I wish it was real…

  • http://twitter.com/jamilemon Jamil Ahmed

    Wow, that trailer looks tacky. Thank god it’s a fake.

  • http://twitter.com/jamilemon Jamil Ahmed

    Maybe YOU should STOP using so MANY CAPITAL letters.

    • Anonymous

      I assume your talking to me about the Capital letters , Just showing a bit of excitement and enthusiasim for TDKR !

  • Sean

    Fake, 100% fake at that.  good fake though.  plus the end listings, syncopy? chris never put that in his batman trailers, (inception i think he might have) and WB should have a trademark under  warner brothers pictures written out…  this is done on a computer guys. just for your info!

  • http://grauskala.blogspot.com/ One_Eyed_Willie

    Fake? Damn, I think this is pretty cool! But people are sick and have too much time in hands… those fake stuff are going too far!

    • Anonymous

      Yeah , i want BB Gotham back in TDKR , and this teaser reminded me of the BB teaser , I want Rain , Thunder , Lightning , Grease , Grime , The Narrows and the Falofil Guy = )

      • bradley

        I want actual bats in TDKR (did you see a single bat in TDK?)

  • Anonymous

    I knew it was a fake. The video was uploaded directly from a cellular phone, or else they would’ve added an appropriate title and video description and the digits to the file name indicates that.  How was this guy’s timing for the video so precise?  It’s not like it the clip was cropped in windows movie maker because when you save the file it never saved as the original file name and it asks you to enter a new one. 

    Keep in mind that the animation with the Bats is directly from Batman Begins.  It’s so easy to modify the lighting and to insert a bolt of lightning in Adobe After Effects.

    Strong attempt, good try but lousy teaser. 

  • Anonymous

    It may be fake…but it still kinda pumps me up. How much longer do we have to wait?!

  • Anonymous

    More clever than most fakes, but still fake. No voice-over is the biggest problem. Hell, if they wanted to do a teaser like that they could have done it months ago.

  • Anonymous

    Fake, another move from CBM to appear.And in international releases never will apper a American Certificate.Its nice, but the probaly to the real trailer will be a lot better is obvious.

  • Julian

    With all these fake trailers and other hype promoting this movie, they might not even need to do their own viral campaign. So many news sources are actually fooled by the fake trailers and writing about them just to get more hits to their page that it’s fooling a lot of people that aren’t hard core nerds like us checking batman-news.com 12 times a day!

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1009478830 J.g. Lukaras

      you only check 12 times a day? what are you, a noob?

      jk

      • Anonymous

        lmao

  • Blablabla90blablabla90

    white noise + perfect soundtrack? how can he get both poor and exceptionnal quality with one video device (probably a cell phone?)
    definitely a fake?
    99% sure but maybe it’s viral campaign you never know
    cheers from france

  • Guanoman

    Definitely fake. Not because there isn’t voice acting or any of that.
    Mostly because that tagline sounds 100% fanboy.
    That being said, I think all Batman fans owe this guy a thumbs up for really putting in the effort.
    As for Green Lantern, we were instead blessed (sigh) with yet another Cowboys and Aliens trailer.
    Seriously, who gives a fuck? And Real Steel. OH man. 
    I was reminded that Nolan’s movies are the only summer movies worth watching.

  • Anonymous
    • http://grauskala.blogspot.com/ One_Eyed_Willie

      Man, I’m really afraid about that… the Catwoman is a delicate character, easy to get fucked up… she’s as iconic as the Joker, but even more difficult to adapt to movies.

  • Bradley Eversley

    You can tell he made it himself..NO camera has a noise that liud that picks up audio that well

  • thefirerises

    the real dark knight rises trailer is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YK_rvcgpaiI

    • http://batman-news.com Batman-News.com

      No.

  • Bazman05

    It’s an obvious fake. If it was, it would be bad signs for the movie itself if this is the best they could do. It was really tacky, and anyone impressed by this are very easily amused.

  • B U D

    It’s obviously too early for a real trailer… Who’s the idiot that actually believed this is real?

    • http://grauskala.blogspot.com/ One_Eyed_Willie

      C’mon, smart ass!  Admit: for a fake stuff is damn good! The atmospheric score is pretty cool! :Dhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlT2UzF3wCs&feature=player_embedded

  • Nathan

    How would the guy know that the trailer was coming up for him to start filming?

  • Perkons

    In July – mark my words :D

  • http://twitter.com/greywulf24fps Paul Allan Colbourne

    That’s a good fake, I think. Some people have too much time on their hands :)

  • GottMeWrong

    Fake. The wording alone is corny. Corny is not Nolan’s style.

  • Shahbaz W

    Life – The world’s largest gathering of fruit bats – BBC One”  type this on youtube and look at 0:56-1:01 ..and check the “teaser trailer” out !

  • redXphantom

    That just plain sucked.

  • Operation_cloudburst

    if you need further proof that the trailer is fake, go to
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3R708CNPxg
    at around 55 sec.. you’ll see something really familiar

  • Tmuels

    This isn’t fake I live in Nebraska and I went and saw Green Lantern at AMC Oakview 24 and this trailer was played.  It was funny because I sat up and said this is going to be good and then that’s all there was and my wife laughed.

  • Naturalguy1979

    yeah its fake. I saw a couple scenes from blade 2 in there. not sure where the bane clips came from

  • Unknown

    Just spent 4 days on the set of Magnus Rex, met Mr Nolan and also met Joseph. You will have to guess were as its top secret.