Thread: Did the victims in the Colorado Movie Theater see this Gangster Squad Trailer?

Ok, according to this blogger report. This trailer for Gangster Squad was released by the same company and same studio that just released Dark Knight which debuted nationally last night.

As all of know, Dark Knight is the film people were watching when a gunman came through the back theater doors, launched gas or smoke grenades and started firing into the audience.

On the surface, this terrible tragedy is already aligned with elements of Dark Knight which I am told contains an antagonist with a mask, and smoke/gas gun sequences in the film.

In fact, one article linked to by Drudge this morning claims that the shooter came in and used gas and guns at the point in the film when gas and guns were being displayed....

Holmes was caught by police in the parking lot of the movie theater shortly after the shooting still dressed in his riot gear, an outfit eerily similar to a villain in "The Dark Knight Rises."

Aurora, Colo. Batman Shooting Moviegoer: 'I Thought I Was Going to Die' - ABC News

But here is the wild part. According to a blogger report from NIKKI FINKE writing for deadline.com

The victims in the theater may have watched a movie trailer before Dark Knight Rising was shown. Reports indicate the theatrical trailer from Gangster Squad which is produced by the same company and studio releasing Dark Knight has been running in theaters this morning. It may have been released yesterday and show to movie goers on Friday.

You have to see this with your own eyes because at the end of the new movie trailer there is an image of movie goers being gunned down from the screen by mobsters with machine guns!

Lots of strange "coincidences" around this Colorado theater shooting just like there were around 9/11 and the Columbine massacre.

Here are the details....

HORRIBLE! Warner Bros Paired ‘Dark Knight Rises’ With Trailer Of Gangster Shooting Up Movie Theater (…Which Studio Didn’t Take Down Until I Complained)

By NIKKI FINKE | Friday July 20, 2012 @ 7:35am PDTTags: Colorado movie theater shooting, Gangster Squad, The Dark Knight Rises, Warner Bros



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EXCLUSIVE: This was truly terrible decision-making by Warner Bros – both to release a trailer like this and then not to pull it immediately after today’s tragedy. I have confirmed that the studio which released The Dark Knight Rises paired it with the official movie trailer for Gangster Squad, an upcoming pic set in 1949 about a ruthless Mafia Godfather who runs Los Angeles. One of the scenes in the trailer that’s been playing all morning today shows a gangster with a machine gun shooting up people in a movie theater from behind the big screen. Several moviegoers tipped me to this scene.


This morning I called on Warner Bros to take this trailer down immediately. The studio’s response to me? “There’s a meeting about this and then a decision will be reached.” I just received the call that the trailer is being pulled. But only after I complained. And yet movie moguls wonder why so much of the country hates Hollywood values where money trumps everything, even during the Aurora theater shooting tragedy. Here’s the horrible clip which no one at Warner Bros should have allowed to be made, much less released, in the first place:

As I have posted this, I see that the Youtube copy of this trailer was posted on May 30, 2012 and has over 65,000 views already. So this trailer has been out online for almost two months.

I cant help but wonder if the people that were shot saw this before it happened?

The theater massacre scene in the trailer is near the end of the video at 2:05. Several gangsters with Tommy guns fire through the screen on the unsuspecting audience.

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