More ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ Pics, Plus When The Movie Takes Place.
More details from Empire Magazine regarding ‘The Dark Knight Rises’? Yes please! If that isn’t enough for your geek gullet, how about some details regarding when the movie picks up? Dive in, if you’re daring.
Slashfilm:
Of the story, Christopher Nolan says,
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.
He also describes the ‘prologue’ that will run in front of Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol:
The Prologue is basically the first six, seven minutes of the film. It’s the introduction to Bane and a taste of the rest of the film. With Bane we are looking to give Batman a physical challenge that he hasn’t had before. In terms of finishing our story and increasing its scope, we were trying to craft an epic.
Together, those quotes give a bit of creedence to past rumors about the plot and timeline of the film. Check out a recap of that rumor here, but beware possible spoilers at that link.
And Tom Hardy explains this version of 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.
Perhaps most interesting is the comment from costume designer Lindy Hemming about the look of Bane’s mask:
He was injured early in his story. He’s suffering from pain and he needs gas to survive. He cannot survive the pain without the mask. The pipes from the mask go back along his jaw line and feed into the thing at the back where there are two canisters of what ever it is…the anesthetic.
Eight years? Sweet Christ I wouldn’t have expected that. I love the whole ‘Dark Knight Returns’ fuggin’ vibe to the thing. Dust off the cowl, prepare for battle.
