10 fan-made trailers for Batman 3

Never let the lack of an official film announcement get in the way of a good trailer. Credit then to the folks behind these ten trailers, each giving their take on Batman 3/Dark Knight 2/Batman 7/whatever you want to call it. Enjoy...

Batman 3

Our first Batman 3 trailer assumes that we’ve got The Riddler to look forward to. Made by mixing footage from Nolan’s Batflicks with some footage of Jim Carrey from Batman Forever, it ain’t bad for a home made production, but the thought of sitting through anything from Schumacher’s first Batfilm would send us happily in the other direction of the cinema.

This one takes a similar approach, but does it better. Keeping its running time to under 30 seconds, it cuts in Carrey voiceover, times it around big explosions, and throws in a welcome Joker cackle at the end.

Batman: The Return Of The Joker

This one’s shorter, and just when you’re about to write it off for its Danger Laughs Back tagline, then it cuts to footage of a man dressed as a surprisingly convincing joker, arguing that should the character return, he’s ready to play him. It’s called Batman: The Return Of The Joker.

Batman: The Riddler’s Revenge

It’s The Riddler again here, with Johnny Depp starring. It’s been put together by panning in and out of still images, and perhaps goes on a little too long, but we really quite liked the ending to this, and the choice of music and timing of the cuts seemed appropriate too.

Batman 3: The Caped Crusader

Here, we’ve got a pair of trailers from the same individual, both of which are for The Caped Crusader. While the on-screen footage is of the Bat logo, there’s been some effort here to record fresh voiceover, and the effect is really quite good.

Which leads us on to trailer two. This is slightly longer, but still just shy of 75 seconds. This time it’s footage from The Dark Knight, but again with some well recorded voiceover. We still prefer the first one, though.

Batman: Shadow Of The Bat

Switching between footage from Nolan’s Batman films, Mission Impossible 3 and what looks like Secret Window, this Caped Crusader movie trailer is based around the idea of Johnny Depp as The Riddler and Phillip Seymour Hoffman as The Penguin. And do you know what? The interspersed snippets of footage really work exceptionally well here. Not much Johnny Depp in it, mind, but plenty of Hoffman.

Shadow Of The Bat

At first, there’s not much to see with this one, as it happily plays a credits crawl to the backing of music from the recent Batman movies. But one or two neat textual tricks at the end (the insert of the Riddler’s question mark) and some panning around The Riddler’s suit do lift it.

The Dark Knight Returns

Graphics. Check. Voiceover. Check. Cutting in of actors from previous films? Oh yes. Riddler’s question mark flying at you? Okay, we never saw that one coming…

The Dark Knight Sequel

A bit of Jim Carrey, and a lot of Michael Caine jabbering on. It’s an effective job, but not one of the best in this list…

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