Dark Knight Rises

I'm just hoping to see a smokin' hot Talia al Ghul to wrap this saga up nicely :cool I don't think Bane is going to do "it" for me, but bringing in the initial friend then foe as a backdrop will, for me, bring this all together nicely. Tossing in Bane for an epic fight scene is ok, but not the focus of a two hour movie.

And I wish they'd gone more Mexican wrestler for his mask. :lol
 
Monster Dave said:
This image makes me wonder:

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And according to Nolan, this movie is supposed to take place 8 years after the last film.


Things that make you go hummm...
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I've never thought that Two Face was gone, and taken heat for it.
So this pic is interesting.
 
I think Bane is holding that pic to more or less destroy the legacy of Gotham's "White Knight". BTW, the new Empire pic of Bane looks like MK's Scorpion, so that is a win.
 
This being set 8 years later is a pretty big leap forward storywise.
How do we interpret the ending of TDK with him on the run and hunted
to him still being around 8 years later?
 
MooCriket said:
I think Bane is holding that pic to more or less destroy the legacy of Gotham's "White Knight". BTW, the new Empire pic of Bane looks like MK's Scorpion, so that is a win.
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Perhaps it is Bane that produces a living vengeful Two-Face to terrorize Gotham. That is what I've always thought that would shock Gotham to the core, here is your martyred champion back from the dead and you've all been lied to.

Anyways, interesting.
 
CessnaDriver said:
How do we interpret the ending of TDK with him on the run and hunted to him still being around 8 years later?
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Really? All he has to do is stop being Batman. The police had zero leads on who he was, all he had to do was drive home and hang up the suit, and Batman would vanish forever.

And let's not forget that Batman's only friend just happens to be the police commissioner.

It's not a stretch in the slightest that Wayne went undiscovered during that time. Not only is it not a stretch, it's exactly what you'd expect to happen. You don't think he continued doing the Batman thing after the end of TDK, did you?
 
Jedi2016 said:
Really? All he has to do is stop being Batman. The police had zero leads on who he was, all he had to do was drive home and hang up the suit, and Batman would vanish forever.

And let's not forget that Batman's only friend just happens to be the police commissioner.

It's not a stretch in the slightest that Wayne went undiscovered during that time. Not only is it not a stretch, it's exactly what you'd expect to happen. You don't think he continued doing the Batman thing after the end of TDK, did you?
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Bats disappearing from crime fighting for 8 years isn't his nature. Gotham would go to crap in no time.
Gordon may be in his pocket, the rest of the force isn't and would love to nail the Bat as long as that was the big mission.
 
Jedi2016 said:
The police had zero leads on who he was, all he had to do was drive home and hang up the suit, and Batman would vanish forever.
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No leads, huh? If only there was some one who knew Batman's identity.. If only that someone had made a big deal about it on live TV. If only the police knew who that guy was who was ready to announce to the whole world who Batman was.

I guess the police are truly stumped.
 
Well, if it is 8 years later and Wayne is older, it would fit in with Knightfall-Dark Knight Returns stories wouldn't it? I kind of thought Nolan was going with the Spiderman story, "Spiderman No More." What would happen if Batman wasn't around. It would also explain why his hair is longer and greying on the sides (Then again, I am 28 and just described myself).

The article describes him as being older and more brittle, probably question if he could still do what he set out to do physically. Leading up to Knightfall and during, wasn't Wayne going through a mid-life crisis because he couldn't capture Black Mask (Or who ever the guy was)? Again questioning his work? I wonder if he will visit his parent's grave and something snaps to get him back into it again? If the movie is wrapping up and tying everything back to the beginning it might answer, "Why do we fall..."
 
I like the idea of a Knightfall/Dark Knight Returns mixture for the story line...more of a Dark Knight Returns tho. That would be awesomeness.
 
We wouldn't expect Bats to disappear for that long, but this is Nolan's universe. If this movie was a direct sequel, even a year after the events of TDK, then I'd agree. Since it takes place 8 years later, I think Nolan may be going for something that draws Batman out.

Remember the trailer where Gordon is talking to Bruce(?) and asking where he went? That makes more sense now.
CessnaDriver said:
Bats disappearing from crime fighting for 8 years isn't his nature. Gotham would go to crap in no time.
Gordon may be in his pocket, the rest of the force isn't and would love to nail the Bat as long as that was the big mission.
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I'm not so sure about how Bane will work in this new Batman. To me he looks like Croc Master from G.I. Joe. I hope Nolan can pull out a grand finale worthy of the first two Batman films he made. He's succeeded in topping himself the last time, let's hope he can do the same again. There hasn't ever been a solid superhero/ comicbook trilogy made. Sadly at least one of the sequels to any franchise tends to really suck.
 
If this movie does take place 8 years after Dark Knight and Bats has been in hiding for those 8 years it kinda makes Batman irrelevant. Gordon's last lines of the movie become moot and rather than a 'dark knight,' Batman isn't the guardian or the protector...

"Because he's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So we'll hunt him because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian, a watchful protector. A dark knight."
 
Going 8 years forward to me means Nolan is likely to show the end of Batman's masked career if not the end of Wayne too, "Rises" could mean to heaven so to speak. Rather then ending the film with him at his peak, which I say we never have seen yet, TDK was still very much Batman still evolving forward, still beginning.

I don't think it's a good decision if so, but it closes the door for Nolan that no further sequals can come and he can call it done.
 
I think that Batman kept being Batman, maybe for a couple years after TDK, but probably stopped. This would related to Gordon's line in the teaser as JD alluded to. Also, you figure if he kept being Batman during those 8 years, he might have upgraded or changed his suit, but its the same as TDK. I could see him hanging it up for a few years and then Bane comes along.
 
I'm sorry, but I just can't see them having Batman just quit for 8 damn years. I'm sure the movie takes place 8 years after TDK, but he's been Batman the whole time
 
Master Dahark said:
I'm sorry, but I just can't see them having Batman just quit for 8 damn years. I'm sure the movie takes place 8 years after TDK, but he's been Batman the whole time
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I don't get that at all from the scene in the trailer when Bruce is next to Gordon.

I like the idea that he tried to quit and they pulled him right back in:thumbsup
 
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