The Dark Knight Rises, Trailers, & Conspiracies! Oh My!

With the San Diego Comic-Con right around the corner, comic book movie news is coming fast and furious. In particular, The Dark Knight Rises seems to be raising quite a stir. In the irony of all ironies, The Dark Knight Rises trailer has gone viral, and Warner Bros. has done their best to stop it.The Dark Knight Rises is a film that plays to the social media world, as one of the first marketing pushes was done via twitter. Fans were able to reveal the first image of Bane by tweeting the hashtag #thefirerises. The first official poster for The Dark Knight Rises was simply uploaded to the official website, and then spread like wildfire via Facebook, Twitter, and Google+.One would think that Warner Bros. would be thrilled that fans have been sharing links to The Dark Knight Rises trailer like crazy via social networks. The only problem is that Warner Bros. hasn’t officially released The Dark Knight Rises trailer online. Instead, Warner Bros. seems to have intended for the initial release of the trailer to be an exclusive treat for Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part 2 movie fans.As the way of the social world, bootleg copies of the trailer have surfaced and been posted online. To protect the trailer for the Harry Potter movie, Warner Bros. has requested the removal of the trailer from YouTube and various other sites where it was posted. Warner Bros. is in the unique position of having to try to stop the viral promotion of a movie they are trying to promote virally.With all the bootleg trailers disappearing and fake trailers everywhere, Comic Book Bin even suggested a possible conspiracy theory over who might be behind some of those fake trailers.