The Dark Knight Rises (Official Third Nolan Batman Thread)

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The title has been announced. What do you think?

http://www.superherohype.com/news/articles/109547-third-batman-to-be-titled-the-dark-knight-rises

Also it will not be in 3D (great!) and The Riddler won't be a villain in it (bad!) despite clearly leading in the villain buzz race since TDK came out.

I hope this thread will be as epic as the TDK thread from a couple of years ago.

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     Ouch at no Riddler. Maybe they'll have Mr. Freeze.

Nah, Nolan specifically ruled him out a while ago, actually.

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    Ouch at no Riddler. Maybe they'll have Mr. Freeze.

Nah, Nolan specifically ruled him out a while ago, actually.

     That more or less eliminates all of the good tier-one villains. What about Clayface?

Uh...has the Penguin been ruled out?

Nolan actually mentioned years ago that he wouldn't be likely to use him in the series (although I don't think he categorically ruled him out).

My thought is that they might go with a more modern villain (or villains) like Hush now but that's just a total guess on my part. There is also buzz about a possible female villain which I think would almost certainly have to be Catwoman or Talia al Ghul.

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Hey, I love The Penguin!

Also I can't really see Clayface coming into this series, PiT. I wouldn't have any problem with that personally though.

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Yeah, the title is pretty ''meh''. I bet the WB bigwigs pushed to have The Dark Knight as part of the title again. I think Shadow of the Bat would have been a much cooler title.

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Why rule Hush out? I bet Nolan could make Thomas Elliot's story pretty interesting.

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Why rule Hush out? I bet Nolan could make Thomas Elliot's story pretty interesting.

Hush is one of my favorite villains, but the story itself required the fifty or sixty years of backstory that had developed by then, what with all the villains and flashbacks, such as references to Harold, and Oracle.

Obviously several things would have to be changed or removed but it wouldn't be impossible to do.

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Big Announcements!

Anne Hathaway is playing Selina Kyle (and presumably Catwoman)

Tom Hardy is playing Bane

http://www.superherohype.com/news/articles/113998-anne-hathaway-to-play-selina-kyle-in-the-dark-knight-rises

Kind of surprising. I hope there's at least one other major villain in it.

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Big Announcements!

Anne Hathaway is playing Selina Kyle (and presumably Catwoman)

Tom Hardy is playing Bane

http://www.superherohype.com/news/articles/113998-anne-hathaway-to-play-selina-kyle-in-the-dark-knight-rises

Kind of surprising. I hope there's at least one other major villain in it.

I'm hoping for a calculating villain to be in it....Bane just seems too....brute strength to me to fill that role.

And I find it funny that the title of the film seems to be the exact opposite of the word Knightfall.  Nolan certainly has some twisted sense of humour.

Yeah I really still feel like he should throw either the Riddler or the Penguin in there. I guess that's not gonna happen though. Maybe Hugo Strange?

I bet Nolan's take on Bane will be pretty cool though. Hopefully he'll have a pretty epic fight in it with Batman... and let's not forget, the character is a genius in the comics.

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Some news and rumors:

JGL is apparently going to be in the movie... but as who?
http://www.superherohype.com/news/articles/125364-joseph-gordon-levitt-joining-the-dark-knight-rises-

Anne Hathaway Catwoman costume test said to be "phenomenal".
http://www.superherohype.com/news/articles/125274-anne-hathaways-dark-knight-rises-costume-test-qphenomenalq

Robin Williams may play Hugo Strange. (This would be very cool but it's just a rumor at this point.)
http://batman-news.com/2011/01/28/robin-williams-as-hugo-strange-in-the-dark-knight-rises/

Also apparently an office has been setup for TDKR in NYC.

Man, it'd be awesome if they shot it over here!

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Where's Robin?

I don't like Nolan's serious Batman. It's a comic book! It's meant to be camp and ridiculous. Not pretentious and humourless.

Uh, most comics aren't camp and ridiculous. The Batman comic was originally quite dark. Just until now people associated it mostly with that silly Adam West TV show.

Correct... and of course it is a fairly dark comic today and has been since the 70s. It really only became childish and ridiculous in the 50s and 60s because of the power of the Comic Code Authority.

Don't get me wrong, I greatly enjoy the Adam West show and some of the other silly versions of the character/story but at the end of the day I certainly prefer the more serious versions offered up by Bob Kane, Frank Miller, Alan Moore, Chris Nolan, etc.

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Some news and rumors:

JGL is apparently going to be in the movie... but as who?
http://www.superherohype.com/news/articles/125364-joseph-gordon-levitt-joining-the-dark-knight-rises-

I'm going with either Riddler or Robin....just because those would make me happy.

Levitt would work well as a villain though, one positive aspect of GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra was Levitt's portrayal of the Doctor/Cobra Commander.

Nolan has essentially ruled those characters out though. I agree that he would make an awesome Riddler though.

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Where's Robin?

I don't like Nolan's serious Batman. It's a comic book! It's meant to be camp and ridiculous. Not pretentious and humourless.

Uh, most comics aren't camp and ridiculous. The Batman comic was originally quite dark. Just until now people associated it mostly with that silly Adam West TV show.

Correct... and of course it is a fairly dark comic today and has been since the 70s. It really only became childish and ridiculous in the 50s and 60s because of the power of the Comic Code Authority.

Don't get me wrong, I greatly enjoy the Adam West show and some of the other silly versions of the character/story but at the end of the day I certainly prefer the more serious versions offered up by Bob Kane, Frank Miller, Alan Moore, Chris Nolan, etc.

That and the whole flying saucers and b-movie monsters craze. Amusingly most of that is canon again though.

Enter Grant Morrison.

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While we're on the subject of "darker" Batman, what's everyone's opinion of "The Dark Knight Returns" by Frank Miller?

It's a classic, of course. Also check out Batman: Year One.

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While we're on the subject of "darker" Batman, what's everyone's opinion of "The Dark Knight Returns" by Frank Miller?

It's a classic, of course. Also check out Batman: Year One.

Don't forget The Killing Joke.  And in a non-comic format, Batman: The Animated Series is one of the greatest interpretations of Batman ever.

Yeah, I just mentioned that one because it was also by Miller.

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Long Halloween and Dark Victory were much better than anything Miller's written.

Miller has written a boatload of crap in recent years but I really can't agree with that. Those are great stories though.

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Long Halloween and Dark Victory were much better than anything Miller's written.

Miller has written a boatload of crap in recent years but I really can't agree with that. Those are great stories though.

I've read Dar Knight Returns, Year One, Long Halloween, Dark Victory. They're all good but I love the epic Batman vs Superman battle. Miller's drawing, IMO has been crap for at least ten years, same goes for his writing style. While Dark Knight Strikes Again was mostly trash, there were some good qualities, same goes for the Batman and Robin thing he did a couple years ago. The best part of that was Jim Lee's drawing.

Did he ever even finish that thing? Usually an issue comes out every year or so.

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NOT SO FAST

http://insidemovies.ew.com/2011/03/21/joseph-gordon-levitt-dark-knight-rises/

Good. I hope this means he's somebody more interesting than Falcone is.

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It seems like he'll most likely be Black Mask now. I can't really get too excited over that prospect either to be honest.

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It seems like he'll most likely be Black Mask now. I can't really get too excited over that prospect either to be honest.

What if he's Jean Paul Valley, like come of the comments in that article speculate?

Oh Christ. I hope not. Horrible character.

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Hmm, well I'm guessing that most of the people who are posting in this thread know this by now but:

http://batman-news.com/2011/04/19/joseph-gordon-levitt-is-john-blake-marion-cotillard-is-miranda-tate-in-the-dark-knight-rises/

I remain a bit skeptical about who these two really are though, especially in Cotillard's case considering this other piece of news:

http://splashpage.mtv.com/2011/04/11/josh-pence-cast-as-young-ras-al-ghul-in-the-dark-knight-rises/

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$250+ million dollar budget.

http://batman-news.com/

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$250+ million dollar budget.

http://batman-news.com/

Didn't Wally Pfister want to shoot the whole thing in IMAX?  Is that still going down?

I believe so.

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The official TDKR site is online but so far this is all that happens when you click on it:

http://www.thedarkknightrises.com/

I'd have to say that that's legitimately creepy... and awesome.

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Well... we now have our first look at Tom Hardy as Bane!

http://www.superherohype.com/news/articles/167341-activity-on-the-official-the-dark-knight-rises-site