Nolan's Batman 3 Title

[Tribal Warfare]

Batman sequel 'Rises' again

LOS ANGELES - THE next Batman sequel has a title: The Dark Knight Rises. Distributor Warner Bros. confirmed the name for director Christopher Nolan's third adventure about the DC Comics vigilante hero, which follows Batman Begins in 2005 and The Dark Knight in 2008.

The Dark Knight Rises is due in theaters July 20, 2012. Bucking Hollywood's current wave of 3-D movies, Nolan is not planning to shoot the film in 3-D.

Warner Bros had agreed with Nolan's argument that the sequel should resist the 3-D craze, the director told the Los Angeles Times' Hero Complex blog, which first reported the title.

Nolan would not reveal what villain might appear in The Dark Knight Rises, but he said it would not be the Riddler, one of the key bad guys in the comics and past film and TV Batman tales.

Earlier this year, Nolan said he would not resurrect the Joker, the cackling villain played by Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight. Ledger won the supporting-actor Academy Award for the role, a year after he died of an accidental overdose of prescription drugs. -- AP

[keg in kc]

Originally Posted by Bump

it will be up on the internet within an hour, why go through the trouble?

I'm not scrooge mcduck enough to have a personal imax screen on which to stream content.

[Deberg_1990]

Another interesting first ive never heard of before.......MI:4 Ghost Protocol will open Dec 16th on IMAX screens only...playing for 5 full days in IMAX before it opens on regular sized screens.

[WhiteWhale]

Originally Posted by 58kcfan89

Hell, I hardly knew anything about Scarecrow before BB and friggin' loved it.

And I would have loved to see Two-Face drawn out through at least the beginning of this 3rd movie. Probably my favorite bad guy in any comic book series.

Agreed that they could probably do better than Bane & Catwoman, but that's what I said when I heard Ras & Scarecrow were going to be in the 1st one and Nolan knocked it out of the park. Guess I trust him to do the same here.

But like many of you, I have that sneaking suspicion that a majority of people will see it because of Ledger & wind up disappointed.

Batman Begins was a revisioning of Year 1.

The Dark Knight was a revisioning of the Killing Joke.

This will be a revisioning of Knightfall.

I think the movie will disappoint. I'm not sure it will be bad, but it's going to be hard to exceed expectations for a 3rd time.

[kysirsoze]

Originally Posted by keg in kc

That sequence was amazing. And it didn't ruin anything. Really just sort of get me excited to see the film.

I don't think I could physically handle being more excited to see this film.

[Red Brooklyn]

The movie is going to great. Will it be better than TDK? I don't know. I don't expect it to be, but that's all personal taste. But there's no way in hell it's a bad movie. Nolan might be incapable of making a bad movie.

Relax, guys. It's all gonna be fine.

[kysirsoze]

Originally Posted by Red Brooklyn

The movie is going to great. Will it be better than TDK? I don't know. I don't expect it to be, but that's all personal taste. But there's no way in hell it's a bad movie. Nolan might be incapable of making a bad movie.

Relax, guys. It's all gonna be fine.

Following wasn't one of my faves.

[keg in kc]

Originally Posted by kysirsoze

I don't think I could physically handle being more excited to see this film.

Is this one of those "oh shit, it's been more than four hours, I better go see a doctor" situations?

[Red Brooklyn]

Originally Posted by kysirsoze

Following wasn't one of my faves.

I loved Following. Especially given how it was made and the fact that it's his first feature effort. I guess compared to the rest of his work, it's not as impressive.

But it's certainly not a bad movie. Many have made far worse with far more.

[keg in kc]

Some spoilers from Empire magazine, nothing story-killing:

Spoiler!

The new issue of Empire magazine has been sent to subscribers and it gives a look at four more photos from Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises in addition to the two covers previously posted.

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."

Nolan added that the prologue coming with Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol in IMAX "is basically the first six, seven minutes of the film. It's an introduction to Bane, and a taste of the rest of the film."

There's some images if you follow the url.

[Red Brooklyn]

Spoiler!

8 years later is really interesting to me.

[keg in kc]

No joy for those of us in the KC metro wanting to see the opening scene before Ghost Protocol. As rumored, they're only showing it in theatres that support the 70mm IMAX format.

http://www.thehdroom.com/news/The-Da...Locations/9954

[Deberg_1990]

Nice.


The Dark Knight Rises prologue is rumored to tell Bane's origin story, an assassin for The League of Shadows. He's on a mission to take out a high value target on an airplane when something goes wrong and the plane crashes. The injuries sustained by Bane during the crash lead to him having to wear the face apparatus seen in the film, a device designed to regularly administer painkilling drugs that Bane cannot live without.

[Deberg_1990]

Originally Posted by keg in kc

No joy for those of us in the KC metro wanting to see the opening scene before Ghost Protocol. As rumored, they're only showing it in theatres that support the 70mm IMAX format.

http://www.thehdroom.com/news/The-Da...Locations/9954

That's just wrong. I remember watching the Dark Knight preview before I am Legend at the AMC 30 IMAX in Olathe.

[Bump]

Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

Nice.


The Dark Knight Rises prologue is rumored to tell Bane's origin story, an assassin for The League of Shadows. He's on a mission to take out a high value target on an airplane when something goes wrong and the plane crashes. The injuries sustained by Bane during the crash lead to him having to wear the face apparatus seen in the film, a device designed to regularly administer painkilling drugs that Bane cannot live without.

I guess they don't want to use venom, but painkillers. Is he not going to get huge and turn into the juggernaut type?

[keg in kc]

There's a couple of rumors running, nobody knows which one's legit (if any are...).

More detailed version of the one you described:

Spoiler!

"It is one of the assassinations ordered by Ra’s al Ghul. A mind blowing action sequence set aboard the Hercules plane, involving some innovative camera work ala Inception hallway fight scene. Bane and his mercenaries hijack a military plane transporting a dictator of a country which is in unrest (think Saddam Hussein type figure). He successfully kills the leader, but makes some mistakes along the way and is unable to safely land the plane. Because of the resulting injuries from the accident, he has to undergo complicated surgeries and that is how he winds up with that scar down his neck and the need for the mask to numb the pain."

One that sounds cool, but I don't think it could possibly be real:

Spoiler!

osh Pence / Young Ra’s Al Ghul is in this significantly, along with a Young Bane.

We are getting the League of Shadows. (We knew this)

We see a friendship between Little Boy Bane and Little Talia, and believe it or not, this is going to mirror Young Bruce and Rachel in the very first scene of Batman Begins when they’re children. We won’t see footage of this scene intercut into the prologue, but the word “mirror” is written a few times. There seems to be a huge deal of “reflection” happening in this movie. Things will mirror other things. I have no clue what that means, but it seems fascinating. Talia is to Bane what Rachel was to Bruce – not really a lover, not really a sister-figure, but rather a good friend who shared childhood memories together, some being traumatic.

This “Unnamed Mad Scientist” that we’ve seen around the sets, played by Alon Aboutboul, is the guy who essentially “created” Bane, and he is a bastard. He performed horrific experiments on him and it will be in the prologue. This man has supposedly helped to create the “Doomsday” device that we’ve seen in the pictures, but I use the word “Doomsday” because I haven’t been told what it is.

The result of Bane’s health condition comes from a fire (as we all probably could’ve guessed). Ra’s Al Ghul’s wife (Talia’s mother) is trapped in this fire with Bane, along with Talia. Ra’s has only time to save Talia and Bane, but Bane is the last to escape and is severely injured / scarred. This is “tough to watch”, and mirrors Harvey Dent barely making it out of the warehouse. Ra’s’ wife is viewed as a “witch”/”gypsy” in their village, and Ra’s is a “wizard”. They’re essentially “burning the witch at the stake”, and Bane is an unfortunate casualty. (Again, a mirror to his supernatural side) – Villagers arrive with torches like it’s the townspeople arriving to kill Frankenstein’s monster – in this case, the monster isn’t Bane – it’s Ra’s’ wife.

The brief snippet of Bane crawling up the well in the teaser will be in the prologue. This is part of Bane’s training, administered by Ra’s. Again, this will “mirror” the very first scene of Batman Begins, when Young Bruce falls down the well. It’s essentially the same exact shot. Young Bane RISES UP, Young Bruce FALLS DOWN.

Among the Batman Begins shots inserted into TDKR: Bruce with longer hair and beard walking through the Chinese prison, Bruce inhaling from the bowl of the hallucinogen, Bane being one of the masked LOS members who was standing in the anonymous pack while Ra’s sicked bats on Bruce from the chest. We see Liam Neeson, but not in terms of new footage here.