New Dark Knight Rises Details - Why It Sucks To Be Batman

Latest issue of Empire (dragging their ass to send my copy of last month's issue) is all about The Dark Knight Rises, Christopher Nolan's cherry-on-top capper to his Batman trilogy next July. Since the trailer will be in front of Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows prints and the prologue glued to IMAX screenings of M:I 4, it's time for everyone to begin talking specifics while remaining vague.

Two big revelations come out of this. One, the big prologue will be all about Bane, baby, and two, its set eight years ahead of The Dark Knight. Guess that would explain those set pictures of Christian Bale rocking the grey in this hair.

Straight from the mouth of the One They Call Nolan:

"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."

What we've heard, they're really pushing how being Batman is physically killing Bruce. As in those scars on his back ("Know your limits, Master Wayne…") aren't healing and just making it worse on our hero. To the point where he has to wear a more armor-heavy suit this time.

Coming Soon also got some meaty scans taken directly from the World's Biggest Movie Magazine including the exclusive subscriber only "Bane Titty-Twister" cover (see above) and him going all "You want a piece of me, Batman?" in what looks like the new Batcave.

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What we're heard, they're really pushing how being Batman is physically killing Bruce. As in those scars on his back ("Know your limits, Master Wayne…") aren't healing and just making it worse on our hero. To the point where he has to wear a more armor-heavy suit this time.

interesting. so the suit looks the same like in TDK but its more heavy and stronger?