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Tuesday Trending Topics: The Dark Knight Reprised

Published Wed, 01 Aug 2012 00:31:37 -0500

Last updated Wed, 01 Aug 2012 00:31:57 -0500

Over 25 years later and I still found myself looking for the familiar notes in this trailer — and finding quite a few. As the debate in the forum suggests, it's not an exact match to the Frank Miller original in terms of tone and texture, and I really wasn't expecting it to be. But there's enough evidence of an intent to be faithful to the spirit of the source material here that I will be checking this out when it hits.

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