The Dark Knight Rises
In the latest Screen RantPitch Meeting , we get a tone behind the scenes of the original pitching for Christopher Nolan’sThe Dark Knight Rises . Starring Christian Bale as Batman ( but mainly as Bruce Wayne in need of strong-arm therapy ) and Tom Hardy as block out sorry guy cable Bane , The Dark Knight Riseswas the closing chapter in Nolan ’s Batman trilogy and the last DC movie to be loose before the dayspring of theDC Extended Universe .
pick up eight yr after the events ofThe Dark Knight , the motion-picture show finds Bruce Wayne living a privy life story at Wayne Manor , with the Dent Act having allowed the law to last crush Gotham ’s organised offense into meekness . However , the quiet times end with the arrival of Bane , who manages to destruct Bruce ’s fortune and leave him penniless . Bruce finally make up one’s mind to take up the ness and mask again , but ends up walking right on into a trap .
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Since Bruce spends most of the first half of the movie in retirement and much of the 2d one-half at the bottom of a pit trying to fix his broken back , the amount of genuine Batman screen clock time in Nolan ’s final Batman movie is pretty circumscribed . However , it did give us an iconic moment lifted from theBatman : Knightfallcomics , as well as some really epic speech maunder through Tom Hardy ’s mask . We ’ll let Ryan George explain how the lurch meeting ( in all probability ) went down .
While it did n’t quite receive the same rave reviews and Oscar prestige asThe Dark Knight , The Dark Knight Riseswas still well - receive by critic and fans alike , and Bane ’s " dark " spoken language continue endlessly quotable . Until it wasrecently overtaken byAquaman , it was the highest - grossing DC pic of all time , with a total worldwide box office gross of $ 1.084 billion . It ’s little marvel that Warner Bros. decided that this gritty and violent take on Batman should plant the step for the forthcoming DC cinematic universe .
Though many have praised Bale ’s performance as Bruce Wayne across the three moving-picture show , Bale himself has saidthat he fall short of his own hopes and expectations . The actor notice that inThe Dark Knight , " Heath [ Ledger ] turned up and just kinda wholly ruined all my plans because I went , ' He ’s so much more interesting than me and what I ’m doing . ' " Bale explicate that while he thinks Nolan ’s trilogy is splendid , he " did n’t quite nail it " when it came to play the character .
Interestingly , Ben Affleck sound out something standardized with heed to deciding not to head and star inThe Batman , explaining in an interview with Jimmy Kimmel , " I could n’t quite crack it . " Perhapsthe next Batmanwill have better luck !
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