"The Art of the Dark Knight - featuring production art and the full shooting script - is the ultimate companion to the movie, showcasing production ephemera including storyboard art, character sketches, Christopher and Jonah Nolan's original shooting script based on the story by Christopher Nolan and David S. Goyer, still photos, and even personal images of behind-the-scenes material created by Nolan and production designer Nathan Crowley during the movie. Following the creation of The Dark Knight, this book is certain to appeal to diehard and new fans alike."--BOOK JACKET., Critically acclaimed director Christopher Nolan follows up his blockbuster film Batman Begins with the highly anticipated The Dark Knight. Batman Begins was a successful re-boot of the popular Batman franchise, and The Dark Knight sequel takes the fresh perspective further, developing the highly anticipated, raw cat-and-mouse game between our superhero Batman and his twisted arch-nemesis The Joker. Celebrated stars include Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, and Gary Oldman, returning as Batman, Alfred, Lucius Fox, and Lieutenant Gordon, respectively; and new additions Heath Ledger as The Joker, as well as Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Aaron Eckhart. The Art of the Dark Knight is the ultimate companion book to the movie, showcasing production ephemera including storyboard art, character sketches, Nolan s original shooting script, still photos, and even personal behind-the-scenes material created by the Nolans and Crowley during the movie. The Art of the Dark Knight is certain to appeal to diehard and new fans alike.", From the creative team of the blockbuster film Batman Begins follows the sequel The Dark Knight, certain to be a surefire hit. Picking up where Batman Begins rebooted the Batman origin story, The Dark Knight follows Batman battling city corruption and his arch-nemesis The Joker. The Art of The Dark Knight book is the ultimate companion book to the movie, showcasing production ephemera including: storyboard art, character sketches, original script, and still photos for the movie. The Dark Knight will also contain observations and insights of the film by producers and actors including Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, and Michael Caine, and various other film crew.., This is a new collection of 12 French proto-science fiction tales penned between 1757 and 1924, translated and annotated by renowned science fiction writer and scholar Brian Stableford. From a pioneering venture on the exploration of "inner space" by renowned Swiss philosopher Emerich de Vattel to visions of Paris in ruins being explored by future antiquarians; from interplanetary communication with the planet Mars to the discovery of a spaceship from Mercury, which crashed in the Antarctic, and the moving saga of the Earthmen who tried to save its alien pilot, this fifth collection provides an unparalleled view of the evolution of French scientific romances. In the title piece, Quebec helped to make up for France's lack of female genre writers with Emma-Adele Lacerte's 1917 sequel to Jules Verne's classic tale, Twenty Thousands Leagues Under the Sea., This is the ultimate chronicle of, and tribute to, the production of the 'Batman' movie 'The Dark Knight', released in July 2008.