Excitement of all kinds have exploded from the THN camp after Christopher Nolan and Tom Hardy have finally given us some mouth-watering news on what to expect from the massively anticipated THE DARK KNIGHT RISES. As well as revealing their two new covers showing Batman & Bane officially, Empire magazine have also got epic and ‘brutal’ insights about what to expect from the prologue and where we’ll pick up the story after THE DARK KNIGHT.
Christopher Nolan exclusively revealed: “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.
“With Bane, we’re looking to give Batman a challenge he hasn’t had before. With our choice of villain and with our choice of story we’re testing Batman both physically as well as mentally.”
So, all the rumours of it beginning immediately after the second film – or even as a slight back story – are crushed, we believe that Nolan loves his work to have a full circle but will he really conclude this massive tale? The other exciting news is Tom Hardy talking about the behemoth that is Bane.
Previously he was horribly portrayed as a brainless thug, it’s great to hear that he’ll be equally – and literally – massive as well as a psychological test for Batman. After Hardy’s WARRIOR and BRONSON, we know that brutal is something he can do more than effectively and he’s not holding back on the action here either as he also had this to say:
“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.”
Wow. There’s sure to be more official confirmations coming up over this week and at least, more scraps that excite the masses. Everyone is hoping that this doesn’t disappoint and as it’s been said so many times previously by fans and the actors involved with him one-on-one In Nolan We Trust.
Here’s one more treat as well, the exclusive subscribers cover available to Empire readers:
Source: EmpireOnline
