The Dark Knight featuring Production Art and Full Shooting Script Hardcover – 1 July 2008

Ok, so what surprised me was that the art-section of the book is the first 65 pages of the book and the other 175 pages are the script for the movie. But it doesn't really matter because the script is amazing. If you have seen the movie you can basically start to read the script anywhere you want to and it's fun to see how they originally imagined the scenes eventhough the changes they made for the final movie version were pretty minor. There are also some storyboard sketches and movie stills presented alongside with the script. The story is really entertaining as well as imagining the scenes from the movie as you read. And because it's the actual script - not a novel based on a screenplay - you'll get a feeling reminiscent of the one you get from watching a making-of of a movie. It's the movie when it only exsisted in the heads of the amazing creative people who in my opinion wrote the best screenplay for a comic-book movie ever.The art-section of the book includes concept art for the characters, set pieces, vehicles and weapons, storyboard sketches and some stills from the movie itself. I've been always a bit sceptical about movie stills in an art book, but these look good and fit in. Theres a lot of text explaining how the came up with these different costumes and designs, I especially enjoyed the concepts for Joker (there are many), as some of them look even more haunting than than the final Heat Ledger version.It's a semi-thick book and looks great on my bookself. The front cover has a portrait of Joker and the back cover has Batman. The back of the dust jacket has a cool picture of batman on his Bat-Pod which I think was one of images they used for the posters for the movie.Overall it's a great book. Everything it consisted intrested me and it's a good gift for those who want to know how their favorite comic-book movie was made.

I had read other reviews of this product, but, decided to purchase the item. However, the book is made of high quality material and packaged very well. But, the book is not for my personal taste. It contains a great deal of scripts throughout the movie.Limited on other material, which fans may find disappointing. I may pass this book on to one of my personal friends, who is into the detail of script and plots of the movie.

This book is a tad dispointing. I was expecting it to contain lots of behind the scenes photos and images, movie artwork ect, but 2/3rds of the book is made up of the script. Very little "making of" like many other books that have been previouly released for major blockbuster films.

amazing

great arrived as promised

Good

this was bought for a big batman fan and he loved it and is also a budding filmmaker and writer

Interesting book, bought for a huge fan of the film who was very happy.Lovely hardback and great for the price.Good quality pages and pictures inside.