There is no doubt THE DARK KNIGHT RISES is going to be talked about A LOT for the next few months. The anticipation for this film is high; I am willing to bet this is the number one film that people want to see next year, well a good 90% of them.
Christopher Nolan recently conducted an interview where we opened up about the film and in particular Bane. First off here is what he had to say about the franchise as a whole: “It’s terrific, to have people that interested in something. It reminds you that it is a real honor to work on something that means so much to people. I’d love to be able to claim that I invented the whole thing and that’s why they’re interested. I did not. I’ve been given a very precious thing to do my best with, to look after and not to let people down. There’s a certain amount of fear that comes with it and intimidation but it’s also a great privilege. [As for the fans], they want it to be great, they want to go enjoy it and they’re fascinated by it. You know, there’s always controversy regarding things that people will disagree with but hopefully they appreciate the effort of trying to make something good.”
Here is what he had to say on Bane, a character he admits he did not know well: “I didn’t know him very well, David Goyer got me a bunch of stuff on him and we looked into him. I only knew him by name, I wasn’t familiar with his back story. He’s a very cool character. And getting an actor like Tom to take it on, you know you’re going to get something very special. Tom is somebody who really knows how to put character into every gesture, every aspect of his physicality in the way that great actors can. He’s a very, very physical actor. He transforms himself and it’s there in every movement. He’s not afraid to look at a character from the outside as well as the inside so there’s a deep psychological branch to the character but also a very, very specific awareness of how he’s going to use his body and his appearance to express that character too. Christian is like that too, very much.”
“With Bane, the physicality is the thing. With a good villain you need an archetype, you know, you need the extreme of some type of villainy. The Joker is obviously a particular archetype of diabolical, chaotic anarchy and has a devilish sense of humor. Bane, to me, is something we haven’t dealt with in the films. We wanted to do something very different in this film. He’s a primarily physical villain, he’s a classic movie monster in a way — but with a terrific brain. I think he’s a fascinating character. I think people are going to get a kick out of what we’ve done with him.”
I can’t wait to see this film, can you? It hits screens July 20th 2012, and it stars the likes of Christian Bale, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Anne Hathaway, Tom Hardy, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, Gary Oldman, Marion Cotillard (below), Josh Stewart, Matthew Modine and Juno Temple.