So the new trailer for The Dark Knight came out in front of I Am Legend last week, and if you do a certain amount of searching around, you'll probably be able to find a phonecam capture of the thing. (We'd direct you to one, but Warner Bros. seems to be doing an excellent job of pulling them down as soon as they go up, so just use Google Video or something. And if that don't work, MTV's got a pretty good description.) We have to say: we feel pretty darn good about Heath Ledger playing the Joker now. On the advice of reader token after our first note on this, we had checked out The Brothers Grimm and, frankly, found him to be the best part of the movie. (OK, second best.) And now this trailer, which reassures as much about Ledger's portrayal as it does on the perhaps equally important question of whether the filmmakers were going to be able to achieve a balance between their good and bad guys. Seems like they have! Hooray!
UPDATE: Looks like it's been officially released. We caught it here (which we now realize is not a film fansite but a Dark Knight promo site -- duh) and it's pretty gd thrilling how much Ledger seems, if we can say this, to "get the joke" when playing the Joker, managing at various points to look petulant, bored, drunk, and more than sufficiently homicidal -- and all without the Catskills schtick that characterized Nicholson and Romero's portrayals. (Thanks littlebill1138!)