The Dark Knight Rises - Pre-release Discussion [** NO SPOILERS PLEASE **]

Liamario

I doubt the poster is real, especially when you consider that they haven't even started filming yet.
I read a lot of people on the interwebs complaining about the casting of Ann Hathaway as Selina Kyle. I think if it was left up to these people, they'd have a porn star in the role.
I think hardy will be great and I don't expect him to bare much resemblance to his comic book counterpart.

BlitzKrieg

it is fake

background is from batman begins, its a picture of the trainline through the narrows

catwoman is the image of silk spectre from watchmen recoloured

the head is catwoman from returns I think.

but def fake

jaykhunter

My mate said recently that Nolan caved and Dark Knight rises will be in 3D (and started a rant about it). Is that true? I'm calling shennanigoats.

Necronomicon

jaykhunter wrote: »

My mate said recently that Nolan caved and Dark Knight rises will be in 3D (and started a rant about it). Is that true? I'm calling shennanigoats.

Nolan was on record recently as saying it will be in iMax, not 3D.

Thank the Film Gods

jaykhunter

Thank God indeed! Is there any news links i can send him to prove it's not 3D?

Necronomicon

http://screenrant.com/batman-3-the-dark-knight-rises-riddler-3d-kofi-84760/

mikhail

jaykhunter wrote: »

Thank God indeed! Is there any news links i can send him to prove it's not 3D?

This is quite recent.

FortuneChip

Burner- wrote: »

Explains why the Dark Knight might be "rising"...

mikhail

I find the fact that that post is thanked by "Sticky Romance" hilarious.

homerun_homer

Christopher Nolan has been good at keeping a tight reign on details of his last 2 films so I hope the same happens here and speculation and rumour will majority of the time be complete BS.

I can't wait to see Anne Hathaway as catwoman:D

Pushtrak

Sad Professor wrote: »

No! Two hours and twenty minutes is more than enough. I'm sick of all these bloody two-parters.

This isn't an either or situation. Could even give it 3 hours. This is the end of the trilogy of Nolan films, it'll want to go out with a bang.

They are all money-making scams to get people to pay to see the same film twice. Kill Bill, Harry Potter, The Hobbit - none of them needed to be split in two IMO.

Granted Once Upon A Time in America is 3 hours 45 minutes, do you reckon many would go to a 4 hour film? Oh, no, you probably mean cutting lots of stuff out?

jaykhunter

Pushtrak wrote: »

This isn't an either or situation. Could even give it 3 hours. This is the end of the trilogy of Nolan films, it'll want to go out with a bang.

Did anyone else think Dark Knight could've done with another 20-30 minutes? The two-face storyline started quite late and I found it to be a little rushed. I felt we really got "two films for the price of one" with Dark Knight; Nolan could've split the last film into 2.

Sad Professor

Pushtrak wrote: »

Granted Once Upon A Time in America is 3 hours 45 minutes, do you reckon many would go to a 4 hour film? Oh, no, you probably mean cutting lots of stuff out?

Not necessarily. I've no problem with long films, as long as they are whole films. I like films that have a beginning, a middle and an end; as opposed to ones which just stop abruptly, and then find out I have to wait 6 months to see the ending - and pay full ticket price again. And why? Oh, because the director just couldn't find anything to cut, not even one of the several unnecessary set-pieces (Harry Potter), or the ridiculously prolonged kung-fu fight sequence that lasts 40 minutes (Kill Bill, vol. 1), or the scene in which Michael Parks blows smoke and chews scenery for 15 minutes that got tacked on at the last minute (Kill Bill, vol 2).

I hope Nolan's Batman trilogy goes out with a bang too. But I don't think splitting the film in half in order to squeeze more money out of cinemagoers will do that.

jaykhunter wrote: »

Did anyone else think Dark Knight could've done with another 20-30 minutes? The two-face storyline started quite late and I found it to be a little rushed. I felt we really got "two films for the price of one" with Dark Knight; Nolan could've split the last film into 2.

I always felt the editing was too tight. But Nolan's films are so intricately plotted that he finds himself unable to delete scenes and has to cut everything within an inch of it's life to get the film to a reasonable length.

But re: the Two Face storyline: that made the film complete imo. Saving part of it for the next film (as many people suggested at the time) would have robbed TDK of a proper resolution. Like a lot of summer blockbusters, I always thought Batman Begins fell apart in the third act. It ends with a big action set-piece but there's no proper resolution, unless you count Batman jumping out of an exploding train. TDK thankfully didn't make this mistake. Seeing the consequences of the Joker's plan come to full fruition with Two-Face was the best part of the film imo. No explosions, no fights, just the horror of watching of a good man go bad. Rushed or not, it was an essential part of the story.

Handsome Bob

Robin Williams will appear as Dr Hugo Strange in The Dark Knight Rises, insiders have suggested.

The 59-year-old comedian, who came close to securing both the role of The Joker in Tim Burton's 1990 re-imagining and The Riddler in 1995's Batman Forever, is believed to be the subject of a tantalising tweet from Batman On Film which teases: "RW as Strange? Hmm..."

Batman News has noted that the poster correctly identified the presence of Bane in Christopher Nolan's superhero sequel prior to the confirmation of Tom Hardy's casting in the role. The website adds that another reliable source has frequently claimed that Strange will make an appearance.

Insiders have previously hinted that the Rises plot will be based on comic-book storyline 'Prey', in which Strange is portrayed as a psychotic psychologist tasked with helping Gotham police capture Batman.

Williams stated last summer that he would "do Batman in a second" should he be offered a part.

The Dark Knight Rises, which includes Anne Hathaway's Catwoman amongst its confirmed villains, is due for release on July 20, 2012.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/news/a300975/robin-williams-for-dark-knight-rises.html

Interesting, I don't believe it for a second but a cameo from Williams as Strange could be gripping within the context of Batman being broken by Bane.

Sad Professor

Nolan is once again emphasising that this third film is about ending the story of Bruce Wayne.

This ties in with what he said back in March:

"Unlike the comics, these things don’t go on forever in film and viewing it as a story with an end is useful. Viewing it as an ending, that sets you very much on the right track about the appropriate conclusion and the essence of what tale we’re telling. And it harkens back to that priority of trying to find the reality in these fantastic stories. That’s what we do."

I think this is one of the great things about the current era of reboots: directors like Nolan have more freedom to tell a complete story, rather than one which must be constantly open-ended. Nolan's not going to do a fourth film, and Bale won't come back if Nolan doesn't, so there's almost certainly going to be a "reboot" of some sort after TDKR. In which case the studio probably doesn't mind what Nolan does with this film.

Kylo Ren

http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/zap-ent-dark-knight-robin-williams,0,5295160.story

Casting rumors keep trickling in for "The Dark Knight Rises," the upcoming third film in Christopher Nolan's Batman series. On Saturday, unconfirmed reports surfaced that Robin Williams may be the man for the role of Dr. Hugo Strange.

While no plot details have been officially released, many insiders have suggested that in the film, psychotic psychologist Dr. Strange will be tapped by the Gotham police forces to help track and capture Batman (Christian Bale).

Williams was up for roles in previous Batman films in the 1990s, but never accepted the offers. However, last summer he told reporters that he'd love to work in Nolan's Batman universe. "I would do Batman in a second," he said. "I'd play The Riddler in the next one, although it would be hard to top Heath Ledger as the villain and I'm a little hairy for tights."

aidan_walsh

Did rubbish rumours from 8 months ago just reach the Baltimore Sun now?

Sad Professor

Yeah, it's amazing how this crap gets around. The Robin Williams rumours originated recently from a tweet that the guy who runs BOF posted. Batman-News picked it up and then revoked it after the guy admitted he was just "thinking out loud". There's no evidence to suggest the guy even has any sources anyway. He claimed he knew about Bane after the fact. But all these other sites/newspapers read it on Batman-News and attributed it to "insiders".

JP Liz V1

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2011/01/31/she-looks-phenomenal-in-the-wardrobe-wally-pfister-on-anne-hathaway-as-catwoman/

Anne will be Catwoman so by the sounds of it

BopNiblets

Haha @ that guys name, Wally Pfister.

Handsome Bob

Deadline is reporting that Joseph Gordon-Levitt is in talks to reunite with Christopher Nolan in The Dark Knight Rises. Gordon-Levitt starred in Nolan’s summer blockbuster Inception last year alongside Tom Hardy, who will be playing Bane. Deadline broke the news that Tom Hardy was cast back in October of last year, could Joseph Gordon-Levitt be next? We know he won’t be playing The Riddler…who do you think he’ll play, if cast?

http://batman-news.com/2011/02/01/joseph-gordon-levitt-in-talks-to-join-the-dark-knight-rises/

This cast is getting a little stacked if true. :pac: I'd like to see him play a good cop or someone who helps Bruce rehabilitate himself should Bane seriously injure him.

JP Liz V1

^ Could he be Robin maybe? Or has Nolan ruled out Robin

missingtime

Azrael maybe? Might be overkill though if that character was introduced.

If, as reported,

Bane will break Batmans back in the first act would the movie run as a set of flashbacks while Batman is rehibiltating and we see Azrael's development as well as him killing bane

kdevitt

missingtime wrote: »

Azrael maybe? Might be overkill though if that character was introduced.

Going to be next to impossible to fit Azbat and 'the system' into Nolans bat universe imo.

Obviously JGL would be a good candidate for a number of roles - he could do the joker (which won't be happening), or the riddler - but can't see any extra villains being thrown into the mix.

Wouldn't be completely surprised for him to play some form of Robin, or a cop of some variety.

Either way, happy to see him involved - was great in Inception.

missingtime

kdevitt wrote: »

Going to be next to impossible to fit Azbat and 'the system' into Nolans bat universe imo.

Obviously JGL would be a good candidate for a number of roles - he could do the joker (which won't be happening), or the riddler - but can't see any extra villains being thrown into the mix.

Wouldn't be completely surprised for him to play some form of Robin, or a cop of some variety.

Either way, happy to see him involved - was great in Inception.

I'm gonna come straight out and say I'm getting all my information from Wikipedia and, while I do read comics, I never read any of the Batman comics but I do find the stories very interesting

The Azrael character page on Wikipedia does mention that, during the Knighfall story arc, Jean-Paul Valley is given a job as a security guard at WayneTech headquarters so that would make it very easy for Nolan to tie the character to the movie without introducing the secret society.

kdevitt

As good a place as any to get info! He's more of a superpower character - but that said, so is Ras Al Ghul in the comics and he was Nolan-ised very nicely.

pocketvenus

kdevitt wrote: »

Going to be next to impossible to fit Azbat and 'the system' into Nolans bat universe imo.

Obviously JGL would be a good candidate for a number of roles - he could do the joker (which won't be happening), or the riddler - but can't see any extra villains being thrown into the mix.

Wouldn't be completely surprised for him to play some form of Robin, or a cop of some variety.

Either way, happy to see him involved - was great in Inception.

Totally agree with you on this.

I always pictured him as The Riddler / Edward Nigma but since Nolan ruled that charcter out it be interesting to see who he is cast as. That is if the info is true. Really hope he does sign on for the film.

Could not see him as Robin but as you said maybe a cop or the new DA / Assistant DA that or Jean Paul Valley

He was excellent in Inception & be great to see him move from his usual indie roles.

DrumSteve

It'd be great if JGL showed up as the guy from Inception and it turns out Bruce Wayne was just asleep and getting mindrobbed by Dicaprio.

pocketvenus

DrumSteve wrote: »

It'd be great if JGL showed up as the guy from Inception and it turns out Bruce Wayne was just asleep and getting mindrobbed by Dicaprio.

I was wondering how long it would take for a statement like your would be posted.

Could you imagine:D

DrumSteve

pocketvenus wrote: »

I was wondering how long it would take for a statement like your would be posted.

Could you imagine:D

I can and I did and it was awesome.

Batman fight like that in a rotating hall... frickin awesome