Come anticipate "The Dark Knight Rises" with *BATSPOILERS*

Yeah, that seems painfully obvious

Hollywood should just buy Detroit, relocate its remaining residents, then use the city as the world's biggest standing set. Imagine the destruction!

haha that's kind of an amazing idea

like, a disaster movie with zero CGI? that would be incredible.

Detroit won't last long; they'd probably have to buy Chicago & Baltimore too...

Nah, just hire all the people you just kicked out to constantly rebuild shit. It's a jobs program!

sign me up!

According to this article some actor I'm not familiar with has been cast as young Ra's Al Ghul, to appear in flashbacks:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/social-network-actor-lands-role-176577

So it seems more than obvious Talia will be in this movie (and will be played by Cotillard), because why else would Ra's be in it? Of course the flashbacks could mean Ra's himself returns, but that seems unlikely, because 1) if Liam Neeson was in the cast, we probably would've heard about it already, and 2) Nolan's stupid "realistic" vision doesn't allow for a resurrection by a Lazarus Pit.

http://i.imgur.com/h3Olk.jpg

http://arkhamcity.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=2502

that guy is huge

If you see Hardy in 'Bronson', he's pretty impressively built in that, and he spends much of the film naked and often smeared in grease, so you see a LOT of him

They need a huge guy if they want Bane to look anything like he does in the comics, where hes a hulk of a man pumped up on super-steroids.

the Nolan series has generally been less about fidelity to the comics than meeting them halfway with a more realistic or plausible approach, though.

Hardy's role in Bronson is like an awesome British version of Bane imo. Perfect training run.

Viral videos ahoy:

http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Three-The-Dark-Knight-Rises-Viral-Videos-Point-To-An-Arkham-Asylum-Breakout-25037.html

i think some people were wondering if they were affiliated w/a forthcoming computer game, rather than the film, but it says that they're on a campaign site, so. i don't know. this film is still really far away.

An initial year-in-advance teaser bit floated out before the last one and filming's well underway so I can see something like this already being done. Who knows.

This page is mentioned in the third video

https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Fire-Rises/219657001385788

And some of the comments on there are deep into the 'fake or not' weeds.

so cool that it looks like they're putting the arkham breakout in the movie. That was my favorite idea in the bane storyline.

room for zsasz then?

http://batman-news.com/2011/06/17/this-the-dark-knight-rises-teaser-trailer-is-fake/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXFsQRW5VKg&feature=player_embedded

damn, 9/11

http://www.thedarkknightrises.com/images/TheDarkKnightRises_TeaserPoster.jpg

that's kind of awesome

i guess he didn't get all the buildings-coming-apart out of his system.

that's a pretty good poster though.

the teaser's gonna debut w/harry potter

will go see this

...no way!

Will DEFINITELY see this. I was one of the few people who thought Batman Begins> The Dark Knight, But Nolan's Bats film are consistently interesting and unusual at least.

I think Batman Begins probably has more going for it in terms of mythos and character development, but TDK has a lot more to it, overall. Probably the biggest weakness of TDK is that every character has more depth than Batman!

that's not a weakness

is Nolan still writing and directing?

I thought he was co-writing this with his brother, like the last ones...?

honestly Inception is the only thing that gives me pause about this one. I've liked all his other movies but that was garbage.

inception was just like all his other movies! he just has really boring dreams.

Ann Hathaway is the only thing that gives me pause about this one. I don't think she's a bad actress, but I have a really tough time believing she would be able to pull off Catwoman. In the Joel Schumacher version of Batman movies, maybe.

as long as the costume is on point i am sure miss hathaway will be okay.

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WE USE BBCODE ON THIS BOARD

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capital knockers, eh wot

They've been sort of coy about her Catwoman, no? Like, she's in it, but not much as Catwoman or something?

Maybe she will be another dead girl for Batman to get emo over like in every other Christopher Nolan movie.

an emo kung-fu billionaire beating the shit out of people to avenge his dead mother really is the ultimate nolan subject

I think the main diff between the first two, story-wise, is that David Goyer did the screenplay for the first but he was just involved in brainstorming the story for the second

TDK is massively overambitious, raising moral questions it has no hope of resolving. It's a bit of a mess. BB is just a really well-made, atmospheric, exciting action flick.

TDK is massively overambitious, raising moral questions it has no hope of resolving.

to be fair this is every "serious" batman story for the last 25 years.

^^^

I thought BB was too cheesy/underdone in the final chase/battle where Lt. Gordon is supposedly driving Batman's vehicle and Batman is having an "oh no you didn't" conversation/fight on the train.

Most of it is pretty decent, though.

Josh they have recently said there definitely will be a cat costume.