Dark Knight: To the Dentmobile!

The Dentmobile is not, as you might have imagined, the dilapidated jalopy that transports impecunious journalists to movie screenings. It's part of the imaginary campaign to make Harvey Dent District Attorney of Gotham City which is currently forming the main thrust of Warners' marketing build towards the release of the next Batman movie Dark Knight. 

If you log in to Harvey's 'campaign site' you can submit video messages of support for the clean-cut young litigator who will eventually be transformed into Batman villain Two-face.

Aaron Eckhart, who plays Dent in the film, has said that he played all his scenes in Dark Knight twice - once as calm, rational Harvey Dent and once as the manic inner personality that manifests itself after the courtroom acid attack that 'kills' Harvey and gives birth to Two-face.

It's an interesting approach and one which the few commentators who have seen the footage describe as powerfully unsettling to watch. Add in the mixed emotions most viewers will feel at seeing Heath Ledger's Joker on screen and you have the makings of one of the strangest, most memorable, comic book adaptations ever.

If, by chance, you're one of our US readers here's the schedule for The Dentmobile roadshow: Tucson, AZ March 14th: 11-2pm Spring Training: Tucson Electric Park 3-4pm Tucson Mall: 4500 N. Oracle Road 4-5pm El Con Mall: 3601 E. Broadway Blvd. Scottsdale, AZ March 15th: 11-2pm Downtown Scottsdale: Indian School Road and Scottsdale Rd. 3-4pm Scottsdale Mall: 7014 East Camelback Rd. 4-5pm Fiddlestix: 8800 E. Indian Bend Rd. Los Angeles, CA March 13th: 11-3pm Venice Beach: Windward/Ocean Front Walk 3-5pm Third Street Promenade March 22nd: TBA San Francisco, CA March 22nd: 10-12pm Union Square 1-3pm Fisherman’s Wharf 4-6pm Golden Gate Park & Haight & Ashbury Shopping Boulder, CO March 20th: 11-1pm The Hill - near campus 1:30-3pm Pearl St. Park 3:30-6pm Pearl St. Shopping Mall Colorado Springs, CO March 22nd: 11-1pm Citadel Mall: 750 Citadel Drive East 2-4pm The Promenade: 1885 Briargate Parkway 4-6pm Pioneer Plaza: 1237 North Circle Drive Denver, CO March 21th: 11-1pm Denver SkatePark - Between Platte Street & Little Raven 1:30-3:30pm Auraria Campus 4-6pm 16th Street Mall Gainsville, FL March 22nd: 11-1pm The Oaks Mall: 6419 Newberry Road 2-4pm University Ave (Downtown) 4-5pm Walmart:3570 SW Archer Rd Tallahassee, FL March 21th: 11-1pm Tallahassee Mall: 2415 N Monroe St. 2-4pm AMC 20: 2415 N Monroe St 4-5pm Tallahassee Skate Park: 3000 Jackson Bluff Road Atlanta, GA March 20th: 11-1pm Georgia State University - Courtyard 1-3pm Atlantic Station - In front of movie theater 4-5pm Little Five Point - Centenial Park (near CNN - Georgia Aqarium) Chicago, IL March 13th: 8-10am Lasalle & Van Buren Commuter Station 11am-1pm Jackson St. & State St. 4-6pm Canal & Madison Commuter Station South Bend, IN March 22nd: 11-1am Walmart: 3701 Portage Rd. 2-3pm South Bend Downtown: Jefferson and Main 4-6pm Showplace 16: 450 W. Chippewa Ave. Lawrence, KS March 22nd: 11-1pm Allen Fieldhouse 1651 Naismith Drive 1:30-3:30pm Ambler Student Recreation Fitness Center 1740 Watkins Center 4-6pm Jayhawker Towers Apartments 1603 W. 15th St. Lexington, KY March 15th: 11-1pm Singletary Center for the Arts - U.K. Campus 1:30-3:30pm Clay Avenue Shops - Clay Ave at MainSt. 4-6pm Fayette Shopping Area - 3401 Nicholasville Rd. Baltimore, MD March 15th: 11-1pm Harbor Place - Camden Yards Area Entertainment Center 3-6pm Fort McHenry National Park/Monument Boston, MA March 15th: 11-1pm Baystreet/Deerfield - Boston University 1:30-3:30pm Copley Place - Huntington Ave. side 4-6pm Newbury St. March 16th: 11-3pm Thomas Park 3-5pm Park St./Downtown Crossing Ann Arbor, MI March 21th: 11-1pm Briarwood Mall: 100 Briarwood Cir, Ann Arbor, MI 2-3pm Kraus Natural Science Auditorium: 803 North University 3:30-5:30pm State St. & University Ave East Lansing, MI March 20th: 11-2pm Meridian Mall: 1982 W Grand River Ave #811, Okemos, MI 3-4pm Walmart: 3225 Towne Centre Blvd. 4-5pm Home Electronic: 538 Cedar St. (downtown area) Minneapolis, MN March 21th: 12-2pm Mall of America Interstate 494 & Highway 77 5-5:45pm Target Center 600 First Ave. 6-7pm Xcel Energy Center St Paul, MN. Columbia, MO March 21th: 11-1pm Shakespeare’s Pizza 225 S. 9th St. 2-4pm Hitt Street Market: 111 Hitt Street 5-7pm Memorial Union South: 518 Hitt Street St. Louis, MO March 20th: 10-12pm Washington University Medical Center Euclid & Forest Park Parkway 1-3pm Webster University Corner of Big Bend & Edgar 4-6pm St. Louis University Busch Student Center: Grand & West Pine New York, NY March 13th: 6-9am Rockefeller Center & 49th St. 12-2pm Downtown Brooklyn near Albee Square Mall 3-4pm 733 11th Ave. & 513 W. 54th St. March 14th: 11am-1pm Soho area (Ludlow - Essex - Allen) 2:30-6pm W 4th St. / 7th Ave. / Christopher St. -Washington Sq. Park March 22nd: 11am-2pm T.B.A 3-5pm Union Square - Annual Pillow fight 6-8pm 7th Ave bet. 31st & 35th (Madison Square Garden / Aretha Franklin / Macy’s / Penn Station) Columbus, OH March 13th: 11-1pm Lennox Town Center - 777 Kinnear Rd. 1:30-3:30pm Wexner Center for the Arts - 1871 North High St. 4-6pm Carriage Place Movie/Shopping area - 2570 Bethel Rd. Cincinnati, OH March 14th: 11-2pm Cincinnati Mills Shopping Area - 601 Cincinnati Mills Dr. 2:30-4pm Kenwood Town Centre - 7875 Montgomery Rd 4:30-6pm Main Street Entertainment District - E 12th St. at Main Portland, OR March 21th: 10-12pm Tom McCall Waterfront Park 1-3pm Pioneer Courthouse Square 4-6pm Oregon Museum of Science and Industry Philadelphia, PA March 15th: 11-1pm Chestnut & 17th St. 2-4pm Broad Street & Cecil B. Moore 5-7pm South Street at 4th Providence, RI March 14th: 11-1pm Theater St. 2-4pm Providence Place Mall: One Providence Place 4-5pm Patriot Cinemas: 60 Newport Avenue, East Providence, RI Austin, TX March 15th: 11-2pm 6th St. from Congress to Red River 2-5pm Waterloo Records: 600A North Lamar College Station, TX March 14th: 11-2pm Post Oak Mall: 1500 Harvey Rd. 2-3pm WestGate Shopping Center: 4245 Wellborn Rd., Bryan, TX 3-5pm Cinemark Hollywood USA: 1401 Earl Rudder Freeway South Houston, TX March 13th: 11-1pm The Galleria: 5085 Westheimer Rd. 2-3pm Walmart Supercenter: 9555 S. Post Oak Rd 3-5pm Edward Greenway Palace: 3839 Weslayan Street Arlington, VA March 13th: 11am-2pm Corner of Glebe & Fairfax - Ballston 3-6pm Highland & Wilson - Clarendon Seattle, WA March 20th: 10-12pm Pike Place Market 12:30-1:30pm Seattle Center (Space Needle) 2-4pm WIAA state basketball Tournament (Key Arena) Madison, WI March 14th: 11-1pm Downtown Madison Shopping Center: State Street Capitol Square 2-4pm City Hall: 215 M.L.K. Jr. Blvd. 5-7pm WIAA State B-Ball Tourney: Kohl Center Washington D.C. March 14th: 11-12:30pm Corner of M and Wisconsin - Georgetown 1-2:30pm Corner of 18th and Columbia - Adams Morgan 3-5pm 18th & P - Dupont