First Inception Poster Revealed

Posted on Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 5:49 pm by AlexHaas

The first poster for Christopher Nolan’s next film, Inception, has been revealed via a viral marketing maze game, Mind Crime. The poster has Leonardo DiCaprio centered, holding a gun in his right hand, standing knee-deep in a flooded city street. Here it is:

Poster 692x1023 First Inception Poster Revealed

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DHOPW42

I really love it.
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Eternalist

I like!
Inception

holy poopsticks!!!!
dagn96

I wonder why there’s water. Maybe to prove a point but still it’s awesome
Chee

Freakin’ sexy!
Glass

Note to Iron Man 2 marketing team:

THIS is how you make a poster!
Mantwiss

omg ftw! ;D
vinay

yeahhh!!! nice…
Josh-

Is anyone else having a hard time getting onto the Mind Crime website? I have Flashplayer, and I still get nothing when I get to the site. I’ve tried on about 5 different computers and still no luck. Any advice?
dagn96

I don’t know if it’s just me but is that a face forming on the clouds? It kinda looks like it but then again I’m not wearing my glasses so…
apw

You need to install a plugin. It promoted to me to install when I went on the page.
fux

looks like this

http://communications.uml.edu/sunrise/media/the-dark-knight-joker-poster-500w.jpg
DHOPW42

Yeah, it looks like that, but who cares?:-D It’s still awesome! Way better than any of the Iron Man posters, for example.
Josh

I’m still having issues with the site. I donwloaded the little Adobe Flashplayer deal on the upper left of the screen and I still get the “Done with Errors” message. Am I doing something wrong?
Eternalist

I think it looks better than the Joker poster. Way better than those bland Iron Man 2 posters.
http://www.nolanfans.com AlexHaas

@Josh I was having problems with that website yesterday. I’m not really sure what was causing it, probably because of yesterday’s high traffic. It may take a while for the game to appear. Just be patient.
jake088800

I really can’t help it…lol: http://www.newsinfilm.com/2009/12/16/third-iron-man-2-has-completely-lost-me/
DHOPW42

“Look no further than Warner Bros’ Inception than how this kind of thing is done to engage an audience.”

Yeah, he’s right
Eternalist

Wait, so the confession is that he admits he’s Iron Man? Is that what it is?
Patrick Hodges

Great looking poster. I think it’s brilliant that they’re using The Dark Knight as one of the main selling points of the film. Not only do they reference TDK directly below the title, but (as ‘fux’ pointed out above) this poster looks strikingly similar the the TDK poster with Heath’s Joker standing in the middle of the street with his back facing us. I don’t see any way this wasn’t done intentionally. Great stuff.

I also really respect Nolan for not plastering his name all over the place on Inception trailers and posters like other insecure, less talented directors. He’s certainly earned the right to do so, but the fact that he chooses not to is very classy.
marky

first of this poster looks great i agree with everyone the Iron Man 2 poster has nothing on Inception poster at all. but i still cant wait to see Iron Man 2 cause im a comic book fan.

anyway i have nothing a few interesting things about this poster nothing saying it have anything to do with the movie but you can make your own opinion anyway. but the pic of Leonardo DiCaprio in the poster look like Chris Nolan. the way he dress and the similar hair style.
DHOPW42

Yeah, marky, it’s true that Leo looks a lot similar like Nolan
Chee

I like the Iron Man posters but this Inception poster rapes the Iron Man posters to hell and back.
marky

is the city Chicago also i wonder why water has been part of the film i.e. the teaser had a glass of water and the bath full water.

i know water can spiritual in some culture. in Greek and Roman tradition “Water” is one of the four classical elements in ancient Greek philosophy and science. It was commonly associated with the qualities of emotion and Intuition (knowledge).
Chee

Lots of water. Makes me wonder why Nolan would do such a thing, him and his weak bladder (he had to go to the bathroom twice during TDK).
marky

@Chee

LMAO
jake088800

Water is a very noir element. Inception is probably going to be noir-like, like most of Nolan’s other films.
Inception

it’s not Chicago, I think it’s LA!

Remember the teaser there was a part dicaprio was in bath tub…
DHOPW42

@Inception

Yeah, I agree with you that it’s LA, because they were filming there, and not in Chicago:-D But if I remember well, on the LA set they made heavy rain, right? Maybe it has something to do with this flood…
Josh

http://www.yourmindisthesceneofthecrime.com/stage1

I finally got on! Not exactly sure what to do. The paper on the desk stays blank. Nothing happens. Must be in the works. Wouldn’t be surprised if we see a whole new site after the xmas trailer comes out.
apw

@Josh Are you using Private Browsing or have your cookies turn off?

I was using Private Browsing and had the same problem.
Morten

The inception website is working now

It’s a game
Josh

@apw

No. Just a regular browser, It did have me download this 3d imaging thing. It took a bit for it to work. I left it up for a few seconds before it worked.
http://www.fanoffilm.com Adam T

My first thought was that it looks very much like that Joker one-sheet from TDK. Thus far, it seems that WB’s campaign has been based on equating the film to TDK, which is not a bad move. Once the trailer is out and details start being made public, I think they’ll gradually move away from that and start building on the inevitably positive buzz that builds around Inception and its mystery.
five5u5

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Eternalist

^ Please NEVER post on this site again.
Chee

lol, whut?
Inception

@five5u5
what do u smoke dude? i dont think ur searchin anywhere but only your nonsense imagination! why would you waste your time to write such a long comment that absolutely is not true!…
marky

@five5u5

you must be one of dumbest person ever posted a comment on the net. first of this have nothing to do with Batman so your theory is total s***. 2nd Inception is just another movie Nolan is directing.
K

2010 looks like a good year for the movies.
Inception

The movie is coming out on July 10 I believe, which means on the day NIKOLA TESLA was born…;)
DHOPW42

Well, it’s good, but the movie is coming out on July 16:-D
vinay

hi guys

seems like this is the 2nd inception teaser poster, have a look

http://www.ambienceofmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/inception-2.jpg

apparently you can see ellen page face in the foreground in the maze, but i cant see it, maybe you can
vinay

oops sorry:)

seen theres a new discussion opened on the 2nd poster
Carl

It looks like a more bad ass version of this poster:

http://www.traileraddict.com/content/fox-searchlight/amelia-2.jpg
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