Anyone as taken and involved with the dark, semi-realistic world director Christopher Nolan has created with his first two Batman films – BATMAN BEGINS and THE DARK KNIGHT – has probably been wondering how Catwoman will figure into it. For whatever reason, the character just seems unlikely to fit, although of course by this point we should all give Mr. Nolan the benefit of the doubt, and then some.
The LA Times has a small article about Anne Hathaway’s portrayal of Selina Kyle running in their 2012 Sneak Peek issue, and with it comes a brief description of a sequence featuring Catwoman in THE DARK KNIGHT RISES. Read on, but beware of minor spoilers:
Gotham City is a war zone. A ruthless madman named Bane has ripped away any sense of security and the citizens, haggard and clutching suitcases with refugee anxiety, sit behind barbed wire waiting to see what will blow up next. A hooded prisoner is dragged in – it’s Bruce Wayne, one of Gotham’s most famous faces – but the eyes of the crowd go instead to the woman in black standing at the top of the staircase.
“Sorry to spoil things, boys, but Bane needs these guys himself,” says sultry Selina Kyle, played here by actress Anne Hathaway, navigating the steps with stiletto heels that, on closer inspection, turn out to have serrated edges capable of leaving nasty claw marks in a fight. She also wears high-tech goggles that, when not in use, flip up and resemble feline ears.
Make of that what you will; obviously, it’s out of context and sparsely described, so we’ll have to wait and see how the sequence locks into the bigger picture. Still, hopefully it was a tasty morsel for those of you thirsty for as much TDKR knowledge as possible.
THE DARK KNIGHT RISES comes out on JULY 20th.
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