Empire Magazine-In the article, Nolan reveals that the story picks up eight years after The Dark Knight. "It's really all about finishing Batman and Bruce Wayne's story. We left him in a very precarious place. Perhaps surprisingly for some people, our story picks up quite a bit later, eight years after 'The Dark Knight.' So he's an older Bruce Wayne; he's not in a great state. With Bane, we're looking to give Batman a challenge he hasn't had before. With our choice of villain and with our choice of story we're testing Batman both physically as well as mentally."

Tom Hardy said that Bane is "brutal. He's a big dude who's incredibly clinical, in the fact that he has a result-based and oriented fighting style. It's not about fighting. It's about carnage. The style is heavy-handed, heavy-footed, it's nasty. Anything from small-joint manipulation to crushing skulls, crushing rib cages, stamping on shins and knees and necks and collarbones and snapping heads off and tearing his fists through chests, ripping out spinal columns. He is a terrorist in mentality as well as brutal action."

Costume designer Lindy Hemming also talked about Bane's mask in the film. "He was injured early in his story. He's suffering from pain and needs gas to survive. He can't survive the pain without the mask. The pipes from the mask go back along his jawline and feed into the thing at his back, where there are two cannisters."



Read more: New Photos From The Dark Knight Rises! - ComingSoon.net [www.comingsoon.net]

a few select 70mm IMAX theaters will be screening a six minute prologue to The Dark Knight Rises on Dec 16th, in front of Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol. get out to one if you can.

Official List of IMAX theaters participating.

if you are so inclined, a description of the prologue is already online.

bane stuff looks supersick. but that catwoman image above ... uh, really?

check out the new official poster! The Legend Ends?


Source: Nolan Fans

ok, i realize i have made the last four posts to this thread, and i'm sorry to keep bumping it up with all these updates.

but....

THE OFFICIAL TRAILER IS HERE!

watch it on YouTube or Apple





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patrick_nicholas posted:

Okay. My expectations have officially lowered, not that they were particularly high to begin with. I can't get much out of this trailer, but I guess this will have a slow build and will go for long periods of time without much happening in the first half.

To be honest, I didn't really care much for the other Nolan movies. Not saying they were particularly bad, but nowhere near as magnificent as people make them out to be. Christian Bale is a rather weak Batman and Heath Ledger was a highly overrated Joker IMO. Liam Neeson was an okay Ra's Al Ghul, though. Casting Anne Hathaway, a chick-flick star who co-murdered the last Oscar show (though Trent winning briefly redeemed it), as Catwoman just seems like a bad idea to me. Not really sure about Bane yet, as he only gets one line in this trailer.

beachpoet posted:

but that catwoman image above ... uh, really?

I like this one better. AH bears a slight resemblance to Julie Newmar in it. Still don't think she can play the part. But then again, I might be biased because I'm a fan of the TV show with Adam West.

Sounds like you favor a very different style of Batman, closer to a Silver Age version.

I think the prologue in front of MI4 in IMAX will give a better indication of Bane, and the movie as a whole, than that trailer, which is still very teaser-ish in tone.

RhettButler posted:

For me, no one can top this Catwoman.

She was sexy, ridiculous origin story aside.

I'm curious about how they portray Bane.

if he juices up with venom and how he juices up.

or if they ditch all that.

(if you read batman you know what i'm talking about)



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LobotomyBaby posted:

they changed it...he gets injections but they're numbing injections
he's in constant pain


which is awesome i think...talk about adding depth.

where did you hear that?

I'm personally glad they picked Bane for the villain in Dark knight rises, due to the fact that as a villain, he poses a challenge to Batman both on an intellectual level and a physical level. Never read the comics, but through some research I discovered that apparently Bane is meant to be ridiculously smart. Should be interesting to see Tom Hardy's portrayal.

Sooo fuggly.

Might as well cast this chick.

i have to agree, she is a total miscast

^In case you didn't see the link in my last post, here is what appears to be the actual Catwoman costume; found it on the Batman wiki.



It's more of an old school look, like Julie Newmar pictured below:


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For the record, Returns is the only film in the Burton/Schumacher series I haven't watched all the way through yet.

RhettButler posted:

No one is saying that she "looks horrible" or that she is "bad looking" for "not tramping around in an S&M outfit."

I'll clarify my position. She is "bad looking" for being bad looking. Of course this is all relative, but she needs to be compared to her peers. In this case that's Phifer, Newmar, and Berry. She's not even in their league.