The Dark Knight gets a sequel - The Dark Knight Rises!

I've just seen an image posted on another forum, one that comes from the batch of photos that emerged overnight, but which seems to have been held back because it's very spoilerish. I won't post it here, because you can't put images in spoilers. I will, however, describe it:
The picture clearly shows Marion Cotillard standing on top of a Tumbler. Based on her dress and the presence of Bane in similar photos (though he does not appear in the shot with Cotillard), the internet is taking this as proof that Miranda Tate is an alias of Talia al Ghul. The current theory is that Tate has infiltrated Wayne Enterprises so that the League of Shadows can steal a fleet of Tumblers from the technology division, which they will then use against Batman.
 
Filming is moving to Heinz Field today, with several members of the Pittsburgh Steelers playing as the Gotham Rogues football team:
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If that really is catwoman, and that is her outfit, it is a bit disappointing.
There's more to Catwoman than her outfit. The Nolan films have always emphasised practicality, particularly when it comes to costume design. And for all we know, this is only Selina Kyle's basic costume. She may upgrade it after an encounter with Batman.

Based on what has been seen in Pittsburgh, the current theory is as follows:
Using the alias "Miranda Tate", Talia al Ghul has infiltrated Wayne Enterprises where she discovers the applied scienes division. In order to avoid blowing her cover, she commissions Selina Kyle to lead the League of Shadows in a heist that sees the League escape with several models of a new Tumbler, and possibly upgraded Batpods. These are used in a prison breakout at Blackgate Penitentiary, with the League intending to get Bane out. Batman intervenes, but the escape is successful. Selina may exit the battle separately, either because she knows who Bane is and doesn't want to be in the same zip code, or because she was commissioned for the heist and figures her job is over. It's possible that Batman forms an alliance with her because she can identify the mole inside Wayne Enterprises.
Such a scene would likely be the opening of the film, not unlike the bank heist at the beginning of THE DARK KNIGHT.
 
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This might have been stated but the villain will be Bane. I've seen set photos of batman being picked up by a huge guy wearing a mask a mask similar to Bane's.
 
Filming took place at Heinz Field today. There are a lot of reports from extras circulating about exactly what happenes, but the general gist is this:
A football match takes place between the Gotham Rogues and the Rapid City Monuments (some claim this rivalry is bitter; others believe it is simply a regular match). At the kick-off, Bane detonates a weapon that destroys most of the playing field, killing all the players but leaving the grandstands untouched. Some extras claim this was an "earthquake bomb", others say it was a conventional explosion. It appears to be some kind of ground-penetrating anti-infantry weapon, one that disrupts the local area, but leaves the infrastructure untouched. This part is perhaps the most unclear, probably because a large part of the scene will be digital trickery. You can understand the confusion and uncertainty, largely because the crowd weren't told the specifics of the story, only what they needed to know.

After the explosion, Bane appears before the crowd, announcing that the "instrument of their destiny" is before them. There is a large silver sphere of some kind that gets wheeled out, with a hostage escorted out. He is apparently some kind of scientist. I'm guessing he works for Wayne Enterprises and developed the "earthquake bomb". There is apparently some kind of explosion, and the scene called for the extras to evacuate the stadium. Three Tumblers also made an appearance, though some people claim they were only being showed off for the crowd while others claim they are a part of the scene because "Bane stole them".

As for Bane himself, Tom Hardy did several takes. Sometimes he was leaning towards an Hispanic accent, but on later takes his voice was raspier "like an old man". When Nolan made THE DARK KNIGHT, Aaron Eckhart filmed all his scenes post-disfigurement twice: once as Harvey Dent and once as Two-Face. The scenes were then combined to add to Two-Face's instability (when he confronts Sal Maroni, Harvey Dent is speaking; when he's in the bar with Wuertz, it's Two-Face). Nolan may be doing the same thing here.
 
Wow...I wasn't expecting that one bit...Whats with the turbine arms sticking out the front though?!
 
New Batwoman Catwoman and no one post it:
Spoiler

(Fixed, pretty pointless by now, but everyone who has Google something about the new Batman movie probably have seen this already. In any case, apologies for the inconveniences).
 
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^^ Dude! Spoilers!

This might have been stated but the villain will be Bane. I've seen set photos of batman being picked up by a huge guy wearing a mask a mask similar to Bane's.

:lol: And the hero is Batman? Old news, buddy.
 
Wow...I wasn't expecting that one bit...Whats with the turbine arms sticking out the front though?!
They play a part in cooling. Apparently it's not the Batwing (or Batplane), but actually the Batcopter, with the rotor blades to be added in post-production.

My guess is that it ejects from the Tumbler; the cockpit looks identical. Although it does appear bigger than the three Tumblers we keep seeing being shot in Pittsburgh, they're clearly new models (one has a missile turret). I suspect these might be single-seater variations and therefore smaller.
New Batwoman Catwoman and no one post it:
Because people are trying to avoid spoilers. And here you are, ruining the party.
The first official image of Selina Kyle - she has not been confirmed as Catwoman - showed her on the Batpod. The current theory is that she aids the League of Shadows in hijacking the Tumblers from Wayne Enterprises, probably sub-contracted by Talia al Ghul so as not to blow Talia's cover as "Miranda Tate".

The iamge itself appears to be the approach to the Wabash Tunnel, where the first images of the batcopter rig were photographed.
Please use spoiler tags in future.
 
Well... considering everyone who reads the movie websites knows she's in the movie as that particular character, there's not much to be spoiled there...
 
Uh, how about the suit? Or the fact that she's riding a Bat-pod? You can know she's in the film without knowing these details.
 
Unfortunately, every movie site I've gone to has had those same pics up on the front page the day they came out.

Still... there are many possible interpretations of it... could be production bullshots, could be she steals it, could be he lets her borrow it...
 
Hold on. If someone didn't want spoilers why are they in this thread. It is all about news about the movie.
 
Hold on. If someone didn't want spoilers why are they in this thread. It is all about news about the movie.

You can have an interest in movie-related news without wanting to know details about the plot.
 
More juicy details. But just a quick warning first - the following link contains some spoilers:

http://www.superherohype.com/news/articles/168895-new-photos-from-the-dark-knight-rises

Interestingly enough, the story takes place eight years after THE DARK KNIGHT.

Tom Hardy describing Bane: "[he 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."

According to costume designer Lindy Hemming, "[Bane] 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."

Bane is sounding less and less like a person, and more and more like an animalistic force of nature.
Nolan has also confirmed that the seven-minute prologue of the film will be attached to GHOST PROTOCOL.
 
Nolan has also confirmed that the seven-minute prologue of the film will be attached to GHOST PROTOCOL.
Speaking of, the prologue has been screened to the press. Everyone was asked to keep detail to a minimum, but I have found one account online that gives some specifics:
The scene is a money-for-prisoners exchange between the CIA and a band of Georgian separatists. The separatists are particularly eager to hand one of the prisoners - Dr. Leonid Pavel, a missing Russian nuclear physicist - over, because of "his" (Bane's) presence. Once the CIA plane is in the air, they attempt to bully the prisoners into revealing Bane's whereabouts, apparently because of some kind of atrocity he committed. Bane, however, is on the plane; he is one of the prisoners the CIA just traded. This begins a mid-air hijacking, with a second plane trussing the jet up with a series of cables, and everything goes to hell. From the sounds of things, it's part-CLIFFHANGER (the mid-air heist), and part-LICENCE TO KILL (when James Bond steals a Cessa out of the sky).
Apparently, however, there have been a lot of complaints about Bane. It seems that most of his dialogue is muffled by his mask and his British accent.
 
Apparently, however, there have been a lot of complaints about Bane. It seems that most of his dialogue is muffled by his mask and his British accent.

Sounds like something I could rip out the "what grinds your gears?" thread, but there is no such thing as a "British accent".
 
Fine: he speaks in an accent that is endemic to the British Isles, but in the absence of any information about where he specifically comes from - ie North London, Dublin, Wales, York; whatever - the accent has been described as "British".
 
It's not so much the accent - it's the mask. And the videos of the shoots in Pittsburgh showed Hardy (who already has a British draw; see INCEPTION) to be using a wheezy voice for the character. Bane's voice has basically been described as a British Darth Vader.
 
Full Length Trailer!!!! Get it while its HOT!



Lol... it was just posted on iTunes... ugh.

Edit 2: Wait, now the one on iTunes has been taken down...

Wait now mine has been taken down... ugh.
 
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