The official The Dark Knight Rises thread...

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Production Update #1: Forts, and Wells, and IMAX! Oh My!

Principle photography on The Dark Knight Rises officially started last week in Jodhpur, India. Filming began on Friday, May 6th at the Mehrangarh Fort with Christian Bale, and sightings of Josh Pence and others. Helicopters, IMAX cameras, and green screens were in use during the shoot. Our Indian friends tell us that Christopher and his crew worked long 14 hour days in the smouldering Indian heat. A fair share of photos from the shoot have popped up online via Twitter, Facebook, and ComingSoon.net. Photos of a bearded Bale and other odd characters have brought up wild speculation about just what was being filmed there at Mehrangarh Fort. The conversation sparked hundreds of replies on several forums in just a few hours.
 
As of yesterday, the filming in India had wrapped, and Christopher and his cast and crew flew back to London — according to the Times of India. Filming will likely continue in the UK at the Cardington airship sheds in Bedfordshire before moving to Pittsburgh and Los Angeles later in the summer. Check out the photos below.





^ Pence: The guy in wearing the black shirt: Young Ra's Al Ghul???

[DeeezNuuuts83]

Is that supposed to be the Lazarus Pit?

I wonder why they put those green rocks in there... Obviously it's going to be some CGI stuff but it's weird

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Is that supposed to be the Lazarus Pit?

I wonder why they put those green rocks in there... Obviously it's going to be some CGI stuff but it's weird

Yeah it's a green screen... something is probably gonna be added with some CGI-shit!

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Holy Quarter Billion Dollar Budget, Batman!

The LA Times posted an article today claiming tension is growing between Warner Bros. and their financing partner Legendary Pictures over The Dark Knight Rises. The two companies started their co-financing and production partnership back in 2005 on Batman Begins, and have since had a rather successful relationship. The deal between the two companies is up in 2013, and according to the article, negotiations over The Dark Knight Rises is causing tension over the renewal.
 
"While Legendary was a 50/50 partner on 2008's The Dark Knight, which grossed more than $1 billion worldwide and sold 16 million DVDs, the film financing and production company has for months been trying to secure a similar ownership stake in the sequel. The film, which like the last two Batman pictures will be directed by Christopher Nolan and star Christian Bale, is expected to cost at least $250 million to produce."- LA Times

That's right, industry insiders are ball-parking the budget for The Dark Knight Rises in the $250 million area. I suppose this shouldn't be terribly surprising — we all expected a jump up from The Dark Knight‘s budget of $185 million. And Wally Pfister is on record as stating that they're planning on shooting as much IMAX as possible for Rises, which alone can nearly double the budget of a scene. Who's ready to see that budget be put to use?

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Alon Aboutboul Cast in The Dark Knight Rises

Alon Aboutboul has been cast in the role of a mad scientist for The Dark Knight Rises, according to an Israeli website. Aboutboul is most known for his role as Al-Saleem, one of the main antagonists in Ridley Scott's 2008 film Body of Lies, but he has been also appearing in small roles in a lot of top level American tv shows the past 2 years. The news of his casting was seemingly confirmed by his wife via Twitter. Some folks on the internet have already leaped to the conclusion that this mad scientist role is that of Hugo Strange, who has been rumored to appear in the movie for many months now. A more likely scenario could be that Aboutboul is playing a scientist who does human scientific experiments on the character Bane, who will be portrayed by Tom Hardy in the film, or possibly the old Batman villain from way back, Doctor Death. What do you guys think?

Holy shit!!! Another villain???

[MontrealCity's Most]

Maybe its just me but dosent seem like there is  1000 character is this damn movie!! lol

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Production Update #2: The Dark Knight Rises in London

Filming for The Dark Knight Rises continues this week in London as the Farmiloe Building on St. John's Street in Farringdon doubles for the Gotham Police Department. The location was used previously in Batman Begins and The Dark Knight for various Gotham PD interiors, as well as the warehouse in Asia where Bruce Wayne gets caught stealing from his own company. Filming for Rises began on Monday morning and is said to continue through the week until Friday or Saturday. Word is that Gary Oldman is on set, naturally, as well as Joseph Gordon-Levitt and others. We expect to learn more as the filming progresses over the course of the week, so check back for updates. Currently, a crop of photos have turned up via Twitter, ComicBookMovie.com, and our Forums. Check out some of the photos below.

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http://www.thedarkknightrises.com/image.html






Bane, It's ill!!!!!!!!!!!

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First Look at Tom Hardy as Bane in The Dark Knight Rises

This morning the first official image from The Dark Knight Rises was revealed — an image of Tom Hardy as Bane! Yesterday Warner Bros. announced the beginning of production on the film via press release, and many fans on the forums speculated that the launch of the film's official website www.thedarkknightrises.com was bound to be next — and so they were right. The site is seemingly just a black image with an embedded audio file playing odd chanting. It seems that a fan over at SuperHeroHype took a look at the visual spectrum of that audio file and embedded in it was the Twitter hashtag #thefirerises. Upon tweeting the hashtag, each person's twitter icon was assembled to reveal the image of Bane on the site.


So there he is, folks; Tom Hardy as Bane. What do you think? I think it's pretty great. It's an intimidating image, and I'm curious as to the mask's purpose.

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3 More Cast Members Join The Dark Knight Rises

Variety's Jeff Sneider reports that Matthew Mondine, Tom Conti, and 11 year-old Joey King have joined the cast of The Dark Knight Rises. The casting of Matthew Modine goes well in-tow with Christopher Nolan's determination to cast actors from the 80s who have since fallen a bit from the spotlight, e,g., Rutger Hauer in Batman Begins, Eric Roberts in The Dark Knight, and Tom Berenger in Inception. Modine is most notably known for his role in Stanley Kubrick's 1987 Vietnam War pic, Full Metal Jacket. According to Variety he'll be playing a character named Nixon, a character who seemingly popped up in sides for the film over the past month or so. There's no word on who Tom Conti will be playing, but the casting of 11-year-old female Joey King raises our suspicions quite a bit. The casting of Josh Pence as a young Ra's al Ghul, then Marion Cotillard as a generic board member, and now this little girl in an unmentioned role should clue you into who we think she could possibly be playing. If you can't figure out who we're talking about... well... you're bound to solve the puzzle eventually. I suspect we're right, but knowing Nolan, we could be dead wrong. What do you guys think?

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Are you guys suspecting the little girl will be playing a young Talia, aren't ya?
 

It's definitely possible... and she may have been part of the India shoot. According to her Twitter account:
"Great!! I'm leaving the U.S. tomorrow 2 film in another country!" - A few days before the India shoot
https://twitter.com/JoeyLittleKing/status/64871664432857088

And then tonight she confirmed she's in TDKR:
https://twitter.com/JoeyLittleKing/status/71753363913584640

Look at this and you'll understand:

[Chamillitary Click]

I can't wait another year lol.

[doggfather]

I can't wait another year lol.

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The Dark Knight Rises Cast Keeps Growing

Just days after announcing that 3 new cast members have joined The Dark Knight Rises, word comes to us that Brett Cullen and Chris Ellis will also be joining the cast. Variety is reporting that Cullen will play a judge in the much anticipated film, and Ellis will play a priest. Brett Cullen is a reasonably well known face best known for his small but notable roles on tv shows like Lost and Friday Night Lights. He'll also be starring in the upcoming Red Dawn next to Chris Hemsworth. Chris Ellis is also a face often appearing on tv, but don't be mistaken, he's acted for a lot of top-tier film directors, such as Steven Spielberg, Tim Burton, Ron Howard and Michael Bay.
 
The Dark Knight Rises and its large and impressive cast are currently in production in London and Croydon, and will be moving to Glasgow next. The film is set to open in theaters next July.

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Production Update #3: Somebody Likes The UK

And that somebody is Christopher Nolan. For the past several weeks The Dark Knight Rises has been filming in various parts of London and its outlining areas. The production moved there after starting off in India early last month. Filming began in the capital city at the Farmiloe Building in Farringdon. We posted a handful of pictures from that location in our previous Production Update. Production has since moved a bit south of Central London to Croydon, where filming is taking place at the Delta Point offices. Pictures from recent filming have been popping up all over the place — some of which could be quite spoiler-y, so beware. Much of the cast seems to be on location for a lot of the recent filming, although production members are going to great lengths to keep things like that as secret as possible.
 
We mentioned in our last article that the production is said to be visiting Glasgow sometime this month, but we've also recently learned of a couple locations that will be used for the new Wayne Manor in The Dark Knight Rises. The official Nottingham website is noting that Wollaton Hall — a 16th-century mansion — will be closed from June 25th to July 2nd in order to "enable a film to have exclusive access" to the mansion. You may notice from the picture I used in the article banner above that Wollaton Hall looks very similar to Mentmore Towers — the location used for the original Wayne Manor used in Batman Begins. Given the events that transpire in that film, it's only logical that the exact same location wouldn't be used again. However, it should look quite similar — and it does. We've also learned via another official website that another mansion in the UK will temporarily closing — this time Osterley Park in West London. The mansion will be closed on various dates from June 15th to June 22nd. It is believed that this location will be used for Wayne Manor interiors.
 
In other news, Highland News is reporting that filming will take place at the Inverness Airport in Scotland later this month. No word on whether in actors will be on location for the shoot. Reports are that the Airport might only be used for various aerial shots. Filming will likely continue in the UK throughout June and early July. Production will then make its way to the United States in late July when filming begins in Pittsburgh. Filming will take place in The Steel City for 4 to 6 weeks, and if you're of age and live in the area, you can be in it! The Smith & Webster-Davis Casting website posted an Open Call for extras needed to "play victims and perpetrators within a city besieged by crime and corruption" for a film called Magnus Rex — which we know is codename for The Dark Knight Rises.