A few cool new posters have arrived, most excitingly for The Dark Knight Rises, but also for the remake of The Thing, Martin Scorse’s family adventure Hugo, and a UK poster for The Muppets (see those below).
The Dark Knight Rises image – which is definitely official as it debuted over at the film’s website – adds weight to rumours that the first teaser trailer for the movie will be attached to the new Harry Potter movie this week, giving people another good reason to go watch the movie. It follows in the footsteps of the teaser poster for The Dark Knight, with the city crumbling but the bat symbol still shiing. The movie will be in cinemas next summer.
The first poster for the remake of The Thing pays homage to the 80s version, while doing its own thing. The arctic clothing wearing person with his hands outstretched is a direct nod to the poster for John Carpenter’s movie (which you can see here), while also being a tiny bit an original entity. However if the best thing they can say about it, is that it’s from the producers of Dawn of The Dead, we may be in trouble. The film arrives in the UK on December 2nd.
It’s rubbish quality as rather than it being release in a nice pristince version to the press first, Cinemablend snapped it an LA cinema. It’s the first poster for Martin Scorsese’s Hugo, based on the hit children’s book, The Invention Of Hugo Cabret, about a boy living in a Parisian train station in the 1930s, who must finish a quest his father started by solving the mystery of a broken robot. As with The Thing, it’s currently due out December 2nd.
While previous Muppet posters have been riffs of other movies, this is the first one that’s original in its own right, and boy does it try to fit a lot fo Muppets in – so many you’d be forgiven for not realising it will have a human cast as well, led by Jason Segel and Amy Adams. Segel plays a man who head to LA with his girlfriend and end up helping the Muppets save their famous theatre from a greesy oil tycoon. It’s currently due in the UK on February 17th, 2012.