The Dark Knight Rises Anticipation Station

[Agent Richard07]

I still wish Eva Green had been cast as Catwoman.

Me too.

 

[Trekker4747]

Re: Third Nolan Batman film title announced!

Well, that last report was debunked real fast. The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Eva Green and Naomi Watts have not been cast, citing their busy schedules.

Apparently Nolan is looking at Anne Hathaway, Keira Knightley, Jessica Biel and two lesser known actresses named Kate Mara (last seen in Iron Man 2) and Charlotte Riley, who is incidentally engaged to Tom Hardy. They will all screen test in the next two weeks.

I just read that Kate Mara was up for the role of Catwoman. Looks like she'd make a good Poison Ivy.

I'm sorry, what did you say?

I'm distracted.

 

[Admiral_Young]

Yeah I was hoping Eva Green would be cast as Talia errr Miranda Tate as well. I have long wanted Rachel Weisz as Selena Kyle, pretty much since reading Dark Victory for the first time.


Here are the two cover shots of Batman and Bane (who looks fantastic). Batman seems to have some kind of electromagnetic pulse weapon with him.

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=84419

 

[mr.peany]

Whats Batman holding?

 

[JacksonArcher]

Batman's holding a portable version of the phone tapping device that was introduced in The Dark Knight.

 

[Set Harth]

It's a Bat-taser to use on Occupy Gotham protesters.

 

[Captaindemotion]

^ Bat-pepper spray.

 

[Samurai8472]

Plasma rifle in the 40 watt range

 

[Dick_Valentine]

Batman's holding a portable version of the phone tapping device that was introduced in The Dark Knight.

A Bat-Mobile?

(*note, this Joke only works in the UK...where Cell phones are called....well, you work it out )

 

[Trekker4747]

It's clearly his Bat-Shark Repellent.

 

[JarodRussell]

Batman's holding a portable version of the phone tapping device that was introduced in The Dark Knight.

A Bat-Mobile?

(*note, this Joke only works in the UK...where Cell phones are called....well, you work it out )

The iBat.

 

[Greg Cox]

Batman's holding a portable version of the phone tapping device that was introduced in The Dark Knight.

A Bat-Mobile?

(*note, this Joke only works in the UK...where Cell phones are called....well, you work it out )

Don't worry. Us folks in the states have watched enough British mystery shows to get the joke!

 

[JD]

It's clearly his Bat-Shark Repellent.

What's a Bat-Shark?

 

[Nerys Myk]

It's clearly his Bat-Shark Repellent.

What's a Bat-Shark?

Its Shark repellent used by someone with a bat fetish.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0UJaprpxrk[/yt]

 

[JacksonArcher]

Here are the first official stills from the film.

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And a special limited edition subscribers only Bane cover.

 

[Ayelbourne]

Ok, why is Bane holding up a pic of Harvey?

 

[Trekker4747]

It's clearly his Bat-Shark Repellent.

What's a Bat-Shark?

"Shark Repellent" is a substance used to repel sharks.

Bat- is the prefix attached the most of Batman's more bizarre devices.

Bat-Shark Repellent.

 

[Aeon]

Ok, why is Bane holding up a pic of Harvey?

My guess is that the word has gotten out about Dent and his little killing spree.

 

[Captaindemotion]

^ My guess too

 

[JacksonArcher]

New quotes from Christopher Nolan and Tom Hardy.

Nolan on the story and the choice of Bane as the villain:

"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."

Hardy on Bane:

"He's brutal. 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."

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