The Dark Knight Rises Teaser

[Nieztchean Uber-Amoeba]

So there's been about a million fake Dark Knight Rises teaser trailers posted online in the past few days.

Here's the real deal.



Not much to go on, but hey.

[Havok]

Well you have Bane (Tom Hardy) and his mask and he is clearly giving Batman a run for his money.

You can also assume that he, or someone else fucked up Gordon pretty good.

Also if the dialogue isn't horribly cut up and respliced, it seems like Batman has actually been absent for a time, not just evading the Police or whoever is hunting him.

Did this come out with Harry Potter?

[Nieztchean Uber-Amoeba]

Well you have Bane (Tom Hardy) and his mask and he is clearly giving Batman a run for his money.

You can also assume that he, or someone else fucked up Gordon pretty good.

Also if the dialogue isn't horribly cut up and respliced, it seems like Batman has actually been absent for a time, not just evading the Police or whoever is hunting him.

Did this come out with Harry Potter?

Yeah.

[JME2]

Gordon's dialogue was hard to hear in the theaters; glad to make sense of it here.

This is must-see film of 2012, alongside the first half of The Hobbit.

[Ahriman238]

Liked the Bane mask. Didn't like that half of the trailer is older footage from the first two movies.

Not much more to say. If brevity is the soul of wit, this trailer has more soul than Aretha Franklin.

[Havok]

It also seems that Gordon is talking to Wayne about Batman and not Batman about Batman. A clue that he may have revealed his identity.

[JME2]

It also seems that Gordon is talking to Wayne about Batman and not Batman about Batman. A clue that he may have revealed his identity.

Or that Gordon guessed.

[neoolong]

I theorize that Gordon was onto Bruce Wayne being Batman in TDK when Bruce saved Reese.

Let's face it, as a child Bruce Wayne saw his parents murdered right in front of him (which Gordon would know about firsthand), Batman pretty much shows up right when Bruce Wayne reappears as an adult, Batman's equipped with all sorts of presumably expensive toys, the guy that says he knows who Batman is works for Wayne Enterprises, and Bruce Wayne happens to be the guy that "accidentally" saves Reese.

Seems awfully suspicious.

[The Romulan Republic]

I misread that at first as him figuring out when Batman saved Rachel, which is another possibility. If Gordon knows that Bruce and Rachel were friends/romantically involved, Batman trying to save her over Dent is suggestive as well.

Really, there are a lot of ways Gordon could guess it.

[Ahriman238]

Or maybe he's in the hospital, and thus incapable, and thinks Bruce Wayne is the only guy with the resources to find Batman, or who can be trusted to do so?

It's hard to make concrete inferences from movie trailers.

[JME2]

It's hard to make concrete inferences from movie trailers.

We've got a year until the film comes out; this should make for months and months of fun speculation.

[Lord Insanity]

Uh... I got the impression Gordon was talking to Batman in that scene.

[avatarxprime]

Pretty sure he's talking to Wayne and telling him to become Batman again. The voice being used by Bale is his Bruce Wayne voice, not his Batman voice. Also why would he respond "What if he doesn't exist anymore," when prompted by Gordon if he was sitting there in his Batman gear? One way or the other he's exposing his identity right then and there in that scene.

[Havok]

Uh... I got the impression Gordon was talking to Batman in that scene.

You can see Wayne's hand on the chair. Not the gloved hand of Batman.

[Skylon]

Pretty sure he's talking to Wayne and telling him to become Batman again. The voice being used by Bale is his Bruce Wayne voice, not his Batman voice. Also why would he respond "What if he doesn't exist anymore," when prompted by Gordon if he was sitting there in his Batman gear? One way or the other he's exposing his identity right then and there in that scene.

One thing I liked about "Batman: Year One" was Gordon pretty much figures Bruce Wayne is Batman but never pegs down concrete evidence. He even sees Wayne out of costume when he saves Gordon's kid, but comments "You know, I'm practically blind without my glasses" which read more of as a way of acknowledging he would deny knowing Wayne was Batman.

Considering that is one of the sources that the films have drawn upon, I'd like it if they keep this angle, that Gordon knows, he figured it, but he keeps quiet about it.

[Nieztchean Uber-Amoeba]

The car crash defense scene from TDK was kind of cool for this. Much like Willem Dafoe versus Christian Bale in American Psycho, it seems like they shot the scene specifically so it's ambiguous if Gordon actually knows that Bruce Wayne is Batman. But then, Chris Nolan never likes to give away the game too much.

[Iroscato]

Love it, looking forward to this one for next year. There is still this small doubt as to whether or not Bane will work with the gritty realism of the films, but I'm putting my faith in Chris Nolan to bring it home.
But I fear the threequel curse will strike again...

[Agent Sorchus]

But I fear the threequel curse will strike again...

The interesting thing about trilogy curses is that it originally was the second film that broke into bad news, while the third was traditionally ok but on the coattails of the seconds bad news. I wonder if it were possible to look back and figure out when the threequel curse replaced the older trilogy curse.

This looks decent and actually makes me think of Batman Beyond, which is no bad thing.

[JME2]

This looks decent and actually makes me think of Batman Beyond, which is no bad thing.

It'll never happen, but I'd love to see a live-action Batman Beyond set in the Nolan-verse.

[Crazedwraith]

This looks decent and actually makes me think of Batman Beyond, which is no bad thing.

It'll never happen, but I'd love to see a live-action Batman Beyond set in the Nolan-verse.

I've been thinking Live Action Batman Beyond would be a really good choice to follow the Nolan Trilogy. They did plan to do one before the Nolan Trilogy was decided upon.

But BB would be awesome. It could serve as a softer reboot than having a new young Bruce. And I think people are getting bored with the dark and gritty nature of modern films and want lighter funner fair, like Iron Man. Batman Beyond always managed to strike a decent mix of darkness coupled with fun and humour.

Then again TDK kick IM's ass. And The Brave And The Bold cartoon proves you can do a lighter Bruce Wayne Batman. What can I say? I'm a BB fanboy.

[JME2]

If they could pull it off, it'd be awesome.

On an unrelated note, Christopher Judge AKA Teal'c of Stargate SG-1 has been cast in the film. It'll likely be a small role, but fun to have a SG alum aboard.

[Batman]

I'm actually of two minds on this issue. TDK was the better movie, no questions asked, but I think Iron Man was the more fun one.
Dramatically I think TDK was the superior movie but entertainment? Iron Man all the way. While a proper Batman movie has to take itself way too seriously, the comparative levity of the IM movies made for a nice change (both of them being damn good movies certainly didn't hurt, though I was somewhat miffed about the palladium poisoning coming out of nowhere in the second one).
And I'm not sure a live action BB movie would work. Nevermind that franchise being pretty obscure outside the comics community, we've just established me having recently taken up Batmaning as per the Nolan movies. Now you want the audience to accept that was decades ago and I'm suddenly an old man. That works in animation because I've been on the job for the better part of 7 decades and I'm not getting any younger. In the Nolanverse, I've been doing it for a few years at best.

[Ralin]

Ironically, they were originally planning to do a live-action Batman Beyond movie. With Keannu Reeves as Terry. But it got stuck in development hell and ended up being scrapped in favor of Batman Begins.

[The Romulan Republic]

Something I'm glad about. Not that I have anything against Batman Beyond, but Nolan's two films have been excellent.

[Panzersharkcat]

And I really can't imagine Keannu Reeves as high school age Terry.