(Spoilers)
This month’s (Well technically next month’s) Empire Magazine
has some interesting titbits and scraps of information, ahead of the movie’s
IMAX prologue preview on the 21st of December. (Recall how
successful the Joker bank robbery preview was 4 years ago.) The most
interesting of which may be that, contrary to many assumptions , this film will
not only fail to pick up directly from The end of The Dark Knight; where Bruce
sacrificed the Batman’s reputation for “the good of the city”, but will in fact
take place a full 8 (EIGHT) years after that film. Nolan explains...
“It’s really all about finishing Batman and Bruce Wayne’s
story. We left him in a very precarious place at the end of The Dark Knight.
His reputation in tatters, on the run. And I think, 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.”
There has been an awful lot of debate about the choice of
Bane as the main villain, or at the least the most visible villain, for this
film. Nolan explains why he felt it was necessary to go to Bane and how he
poses a different challenge to those seen so far in Nolan’s Batman films, and
also a type of challenge that was vital for a trilogy ending story.
“The world of Batman, indeed the world of all graphic novels,
deals with archetypes... You want a different archetype. What Bane represents
in the comics is the ultimate physical villain.”
Christian Bale says “It’s the first time in Chris’ movies that we’ve had an
adversary who is physically superior.”
There’s also a little confirmation on the nature of Bane’s
mask; which is sufficiently different enough from the comic book creation to
have comic book fans speculating, alongside those who had never heard of Bane, as
to how the character would play out, and what his mask / costume represented.
In the comics Bane, who is extremely intelligent, gets his incredible strength
from “Venom”, which is injected, intravenously via tubes in the back of his
head. That all seemed a little bit much for the “real world” vision of Nolan’s
Batman films; not to mention the mask suggested gas, not liquid. Well according
to costume designer Lindy hemming, Bane’s costume, like Batman’s is full of
history and practicality. The look of the mask was inspired by her desire to
have it be “like an animal”, most notably Silverback Gorillas. Bane has
suffered an injury earlier on in his life, the severity of which is that he
cannot survive the pain without the gas. The mask acts as a permanent delivery
system for the gas.
There’s much more on Bane and the Dark Knight Rises in the
latest issue of Empire which is either on sale now or about to go on sale.
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