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[[File:Batmobile on set.jpg|thumb|The [[Batmobile|tumbler]] on the set of ''The Dark Knight Rises'' in [[Pittsburgh]]]]
[[File:Batmobile on set.jpg|thumb|The [[Batmobile|tumbler]] on the set of ''The Dark Knight Rises'' in [[Pittsburgh]]]]
During location scouting in December 2010, Nolan began searching for locations such as India, Romania, and Michigan. According to the ''Romania Insider'', Nolan was interested Bucharest’s historical center, Edgar Quinet Street, Palace of Parliament, and the Turda salt mines. The film has an estimated budget of $250 million.<ref name="Filming1"/> Nolan has elected not to film in [[3-D film|3-D]], but has instead stated that he intends to focus on improving image quality and scale using the [[IMAX]] format.<ref name="Filming2"/> ''The Dark Knight Rises'' will feature more scenes shot in IMAX than ''The Dark Knight'';<ref name="ColliderIMAX"/> Nolan's wife and co-producer [[Emma Thomas]] stated that the film will have between forty and fifty minutes of footage shot in IMAX (by comparison, ''The Dark Knight'' contained thirty minutes), depending on the editing process.<ref name="40Minutes"/> Nolan has had several meetings with IMAX Vice-President David Keighley to work on the logistics of projecting films in digital IMAX venues.<ref name="ColliderIMAX"/> Wally Pfister had expressed interest in shooting the film entirely in IMAX,<ref name="Filming4"/> but because of the considerable noise made by IMAX cameras, [[35 mm film|35mm]] and [[70 mm film|70mm]] cameras had to be used for shooting the film's dialogue scenes,<ref name="ColliderIMAX"/><ref name="40Minutes" /> as dialogue had to be dubbed when shot with IMAX cameras.<ref name="ColliderIMAX2" />
During location scouting in December 2010, Nolan began searching for locations such as India, Romania, and Michigan.<ref name="Location1"/><ref name="Location2"/><ref name="Location3"/> According to the ''Romania Insider'', Nolan was interested Bucharest’s historical center, Edgar Quinet Street, Palace of Parliament, and the Turda salt mines.<ref name="Location1"/> The film has an estimated budget of $250 million.<ref name="Filming1"/> Nolan has elected not to film in [[3-D film|3-D]], but has instead stated that he intends to focus on improving image quality and scale using the [[IMAX]] format.<ref name="Filming2"/> ''The Dark Knight Rises'' will feature more scenes shot in IMAX than ''The Dark Knight'';<ref name="ColliderIMAX"/> Nolan's wife and co-producer [[Emma Thomas]] stated that the film will have between forty and fifty minutes of footage shot in IMAX (by comparison, ''The Dark Knight'' contained thirty minutes), depending on the editing process.<ref name="40Minutes"/> Nolan has had several meetings with IMAX Vice-President David Keighley to work on the logistics of projecting films in digital IMAX venues.<ref name="ColliderIMAX"/> Wally Pfister had expressed interest in shooting the film entirely in IMAX,<ref name="Filming4"/> but because of the considerable noise made by IMAX cameras, [[35 mm film|35mm]] and [[70 mm film|70mm]] cameras had to be used for shooting the film's dialogue scenes,<ref name="ColliderIMAX"/><ref name="40Minutes" /> as dialogue had to be dubbed when shot with IMAX cameras.<ref name="ColliderIMAX2" />


Filming was scheduled to start in May and conclude in November 2011.<ref name="Semlyen"/> [[Principal photography]] commenced on May 6, 2011, in [[Jodhpur]], [[India]] at the [[Mehrangarh Fort]]<ref name="Filming5"/><ref name="Filming6"/> before moving to [[Pittsburgh]], where it operated under the working title "Magnus Rex" to reduce the visibility of the production.<ref name="Filming7"/><ref name="CMU"/> Shooting locations within the city included [[Heinz Field]], the site of an [[American football]] game,<ref name="Filming8"/> with members of the Pittsburgh Steelers playing the Gotham Rogues football team.<ref name="Steelers-1" /><ref name="Steelers-2" /> Filming in Pittsburgh also took place at the [[Mellon Institute of Industrial Research|Mellon Institute]] and [[Software Engineering Institute]] at [[Carnegie Mellon University]].<ref name="CMU" /> A letter sent out to residents and business owners detailing road closures revealed that the streets of the city would be featured "as the start of [the] film".<ref name="Filming10"/> [[9-1-1]] operators were told to expect an increase in calls related to gun shots and explosions in the film's production.<ref name="Schutte"/> The Pittsburgh leg of production wrapped after three weeks on August 21, 2011, before moving on to Los Angeles and New York.<ref name="Filming13"/> The [[Trump Tower (New York City)|Trump Tower]] replaced the [[Richard J. Daley Center]] as the location for the headquarters of [[Wayne Enterprises]].<ref name="TrumpTower"/> In November 2011, shooting shifted to [[Newark, New Jersey]].<ref name="Filming11"/><ref name="Filming12"/> [[Newark City Hall]] and [[Military Park (Newark)|Military Park]] were among the locations used for filming.<ref name="Filming15"/> Other shooting locations include [[London]] and [[Glasgow]], the latter of which was used for "additional exterior filming".<ref name="Filming16"/> Principal photography concluded on November 14, 2011.<ref name="Filming17"/>
Filming was scheduled to start in May and conclude in November 2011.<ref name="Semlyen"/> [[Principal photography]] commenced on May 6, 2011, in [[Jodhpur]], [[India]] at the [[Mehrangarh Fort]]<ref name="Filming5"/><ref name="Filming6"/> before moving to [[Pittsburgh]], where it operated under the working title "Magnus Rex" to reduce the visibility of the production.<ref name="Filming7"/><ref name="CMU"/> Shooting locations within the city included [[Heinz Field]], the site of an [[American football]] game,<ref name="Filming8"/> with members of the Pittsburgh Steelers playing the Gotham Rogues football team.<ref name="Steelers-1" /><ref name="Steelers-2" /> Filming in Pittsburgh also took place at the [[Mellon Institute of Industrial Research|Mellon Institute]] and [[Software Engineering Institute]] at [[Carnegie Mellon University]].<ref name="CMU" /> A letter sent out to residents and business owners detailing road closures revealed that the streets of the city would be featured "as the start of [the] film".<ref name="Filming10"/> [[9-1-1]] operators were told to expect an increase in calls related to gun shots and explosions in the film's production.<ref name="Schutte"/> The Pittsburgh leg of production wrapped after three weeks on August 21, 2011, before moving on to Los Angeles and New York.<ref name="Filming13"/> The [[Trump Tower (New York City)|Trump Tower]] replaced the [[Richard J. Daley Center]] as the location for the headquarters of [[Wayne Enterprises]].<ref name="TrumpTower"/> In November 2011, shooting shifted to [[Newark, New Jersey]].<ref name="Filming11"/><ref name="Filming12"/> [[Newark City Hall]] and [[Military Park (Newark)|Military Park]] were among the locations used for filming.<ref name="Filming15"/> Other shooting locations include [[London]] and [[Glasgow]], the latter of which was used for "additional exterior filming".<ref name="Filming16"/> Principal photography concluded on November 14, 2011.<ref name="Filming17"/>
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<ref name="Location2">{{cite web|url=http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/54335453.html|title=Christopher Nolan Is Scouting Locations For 'The Dark Knight Rises' in India|work=[[Livejournal]]|date=December 15, 2012|accessdate=February 16, 2012}}</ref>

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The Dark Knight Rises
Teaser poster
Directed byChristopher Nolan
Screenplay byChristopher Nolan
Jonathan Nolan
Story byDavid S. Goyer
Christopher Nolan
Produced byChristopher Nolan
Emma Thomas
Charles Roven
StarringChristian Bale
Michael Caine
Gary Oldman
Tom Hardy
Anne Hathaway
Marion Cotillard
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Morgan Freeman
CinematographyWally Pfister
Edited byLee Smith
Music byHans Zimmer
Production
companies
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
Release date
  • July 20, 2012 (2012-07-20)
CountryTemplate:Film US
LanguageEnglish
Budget$250 million

The Dark Knight Rises is an upcoming superhero film directed by Christopher Nolan, who co-wrote the screenplay with his brother Jonathan Nolan and the story with David S. Goyer. Based on the DC Comics character Batman, the film will be the third installment in Nolan's Batman film series, and is a sequel to Batman Begins (2005) and The Dark Knight (2008). The Dark Knight Rises is intended to be the conclusion of the series. It stars Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, and Morgan Freeman. The film will take place eight years after the events of The Dark Knight and will introduce the characters of Selina Kyle and Bane—portrayed by Anne Hathaway and Tom Hardy, respectively—two villains from the Batman mythology.[1]

Nolan was initially hesitant about returning to the series for a second time, but agreed to come back after developing a story with his brother Jonathan and David S. Goyer that he felt would conclude the series on a satisfactory note. The film has inspirations in the Batman comic book series Knightfall (1993), which debuted the villain Bane; The Dark Knight Returns (1986), in which Batman returns to Gotham City after a ten-year absence; and No Man's Land (1999), which depicts a major earthquake hitting Gotham.

Filming took place in various locations, including locations in India, London, Glasgow, Los Angeles, New York, Newark, and Pittsburgh. Nolan utilized IMAX cameras for much of the filming to optimize the quality of the picture. As with The Dark Knight, viral marketing campaigns began early during production to help promote the upcoming film. When filming concluded, Warner Bros. refocused its campaign; developing promotional websites, releasing the first six minutes of the film and theatrical trailers, and sending random pieces of information regarding the film's plot to various companies. The Dark Knight Rises is scheduled for release in the United Kingdom, United States, and Canada on July 20, 2012.[2][3]

Premise

Following the death of District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman assumes responsibility for Dent's crimes in order to protect Dent's reputation and is subsequently hunted by the Gotham City Police Department. Eight years after the events of The Dark Knight, Batman returns to Gotham where he must discover the truth regarding the mysterious Selina Kyle, while stopping the villain Bane's plans to destroy the city.[4][5]

Cast

  • Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne / Batman,[6] a billionaire socialite dedicated to protecting Gotham City from the criminal underworld. Nolan has stated that, due to the eight-year gap between the events of The Dark Knight and those of The Dark Knight Rises, "he's an older Bruce Wayne; he's not in a great state."[4] Bale has stated that The Dark Knight Rises will be the final film in which he plays Batman.[7]
  • Tom Hardy as Bane.[8] Hardy stated that he intended to portray the character as "more menacing" than in Joel Schumacher's Batman & Robin and gained 30 pounds (14 kg) of muscle for the role,[9][10] increasing his weight to 198 pounds (90 kg).[9] According to costume designer Lindy Hemming, the character wears a mask that supplies him with an analgesic gas to relieve pain he suffers from an injury sustained "early in his story", while Nolan explained that the character was chosen because of the desire to "[test] Batman both physically as well as mentally".[4] Hardy describes Bane's fighting style as "[...] 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."[4] Originally, Nolan was unfamiliar with the character's back-story,[11] but did acknowledge his physicality: "With Bane, the physicality is the thing," Nolan said. "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."[12] Nolan also commented on Hardy's performance: "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."[11]
  • Anne Hathaway as Selina Kyle,[8][13] an associate of Bane.[14] Hathaway has called the role her most physically demanding yet, especially fitting into the character's signature leather costume.[15] Hathaway works out five days a week for the role, including rigorous exercise and stunt training followed by an hour and a half of dance. She explained, "I've always thought that skinny was the goal, but with this job I also have to be strong."[16] Aside from her physical demands, Hathaway comments on her suit being used for her character: "It’s disappointing. I think everyone feels a slight frustration with it because those stills so undercut the work that’s being done," she said. Hathaway also commented on her distinctive choreographing style: "They've given me a martial arts exercise that I have to do all the time to teach me grace and proper stance and fluid movement. It looks so gentle, but when you're actually doing fight choreography it's 'Oh my gosh, that's actually a block. Oh, I'm hitting somebody's throat right now'."[17] Hathaway based her breathing on that of Hedy Lamarr.[14]
  • Michael Caine as Alfred Pennyworth,[18] Bruce's trusted butler and confidant. Alfred has acted as a father figure to Bruce, and continues to aid Bruce on his missions as well as supplying him with useful advice.
  • Gary Oldman as James Gordon,[18] Commissioner of the Gotham City Police Department. One of the city's few honest police officers. Oldman described his character: "He's a little reminiscent of the Gordon you see in 'Batman Begins.' They've tidied up the city, but there's still work to be done. He's very world-weary."[19]
  • Morgan Freeman as Lucius Fox,[18] who runs Wayne Enterprises on behalf of Bruce Wayne and serves as his armorer, providing him with high-tech equipment.
  • Marion Cotillard as Miranda Tate, "a Wayne Enterprises board member eager to help a still-grieving Bruce Wayne resume his father's philanthropic endeavors for Gotham."[20] Cotillard has denied speculation that she is playing a dual role as Talia al Ghul, stating that her character is a completely original creation.[21]
  • Joseph Gordon-Levitt as John Blake, "a Gotham City beat cop assigned to special duty under the command of Commissioner Gordon."[20]
  • Josh Pence and Liam Neeson as Ra's al Ghul, with the former playing a young version of the character in scenes to take place thirty years before the events of Batman Begins[22] and the latter reportedly reprising his Batman Begins role in a cameo appearance.[23]

Aaron Eckhart had expressed enthusiasm to return for a sequel if asked, although he later stated Nolan verified that his character, Harvey Dent, is dead.[24] Cillian Murphy, who portrayed the villain Dr. Jonathan Crane/Scarecrow in the preceding films, was reportedly sighted on set during filming.[25] Other cast members include Nestor Carbonell reprising his role as Mayor Anthony Garcia;[26] Alon Abutbul as Dr. Leonid Pavel, described as "a mad scientist";[27][28] Juno Temple as a "street-smart Gotham girl";[29] Matthew Modine as Nixon;[30] Brett Cullen as a judge;[31] Chris Ellis as a priest;[31] Aiden Gillen as a CIA agent;[32][33] and Rob Brown,[34] Tom Conti, Joey King,[30] and Christopher Judge in unspecified roles.[10]

Several members of the Pittsburgh Steelers will make cameo appearances as members of the fictional Gotham Rogues football team in the film, including Ben Roethlisberger, Hines Ward, Troy Polamalu, Willie Colon, Maurkice Pouncey, Mike Wallace, Heath Miller, Aaron Smith, Ryan Clark, James Farrior, LaMarr Woodley, and Casey Hampton,[35][36] and former Steelers head coach Bill Cowher as the head coach of the Rogues.[37] Pittsburgh mayor Luke Ravenstahl appears as a kicker for the Rogues' opponents, the Rapid City Monuments.[38] In 2008, the Rooney family sold a minority stake in the team to Thomas Tull, the CEO and president of Legendary Pictures, which is producing The Dark Knight Rises.[39]

Production

Development

The key thing that makes the third film a great possibility for us is that we want to finish our story [...] rather than infinitely blowing up the balloon and expanding the story [...] Unlike the comics, these things don't go on forever in film and viewing it as a story with an end is useful. Viewing it as an ending, that sets you very much on the right track about the appropriate conclusion.

Christopher Nolan, confirming his involvement in The Dark Knight Rises.[40]

Warner Bros. president of production Jeff Robinov had hoped a third film would be released in 2011 or 2012.[41] Nolan wanted the story for the third installment to keep him emotionally invested. "On a more superficial level, I have to ask the question," he reasoned, "how many good third movies in a franchise can people name?"[42] Nolan only agreed to a third film on the basis of finding a worthwhile story, fearing that he would become bored halfway through production if he discovered the film to be unnecessary.[43] By December 2008, Nolan completed a rough story outline, before he committed himself to Inception.[44] Later in December, Alan F. Horn confirmed that while discussions with Nolan about a third film were ongoing, no casting had been done, and Horn denied all such rumors.[45] Before Nolan confirmed his involvement, Oldman had said he was confident Nolan would return.[46] It was not until February 9, 2010 that it was announced that Nolan had "cracked" the story of a sequel to The Dark Knight and was committed to return to the project.[47] Shortly afterward, it was announced David S. Goyer and Jonathan Nolan were working on a screenplay.[48] Goyer would leave the project during pre-production to begin work on Man of Steel; Jonathan continued writing the script based on the story by his brother Chris and Goyer.[18] The film's storyline takes influence from the story arcs in the Batman comics The Dark Knight Returns, Knightfall and No Man’s Land.[49]

Nolan confirmed the Joker would not return in the third film, and dismissed rumors that he considered using unused footage of Heath Ledger from The Dark Knight.[50] The Dark Knight Rises will reunite Nolan with many of his past collaborators, including cinematographer Wally Pfister, production designer Nathan Crowley, editor Lee Smith, costume designer Lindy Hemming, special effects supervisors Paul Franklin and Chris Corbould, and composer Hans Zimmer.[51] James Newton Howard was offered to return and write the score with Zimmer as he did for Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, but he chose not to because he noted that the chemistry established between Zimmer and Nolan during the making of Inception would make him seem like a third wheel.[52]

Filming

The tumbler on the set of The Dark Knight Rises in Pittsburgh

During location scouting in December 2010, Nolan began searching for locations such as India, Romania, and Michigan.[53][54][55] According to the Romania Insider, Nolan was interested Bucharest’s historical center, Edgar Quinet Street, Palace of Parliament, and the Turda salt mines.[53] The film has an estimated budget of $250 million.[56] Nolan has elected not to film in 3-D, but has instead stated that he intends to focus on improving image quality and scale using the IMAX format.[57] The Dark Knight Rises will feature more scenes shot in IMAX than The Dark Knight;[58] Nolan's wife and co-producer Emma Thomas stated that the film will have between forty and fifty minutes of footage shot in IMAX (by comparison, The Dark Knight contained thirty minutes), depending on the editing process.[59] Nolan has had several meetings with IMAX Vice-President David Keighley to work on the logistics of projecting films in digital IMAX venues.[58] Wally Pfister had expressed interest in shooting the film entirely in IMAX,[60] but because of the considerable noise made by IMAX cameras, 35mm and 70mm cameras had to be used for shooting the film's dialogue scenes,[58][59] as dialogue had to be dubbed when shot with IMAX cameras.[61]

Filming was scheduled to start in May and conclude in November 2011.[62] Principal photography commenced on May 6, 2011, in Jodhpur, India at the Mehrangarh Fort[63][64] before moving to Pittsburgh, where it operated under the working title "Magnus Rex" to reduce the visibility of the production.[65][66] Shooting locations within the city included Heinz Field, the site of an American football game,[67] with members of the Pittsburgh Steelers playing the Gotham Rogues football team.[35][36] Filming in Pittsburgh also took place at the Mellon Institute and Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.[66] A letter sent out to residents and business owners detailing road closures revealed that the streets of the city would be featured "as the start of [the] film".[68] 9-1-1 operators were told to expect an increase in calls related to gun shots and explosions in the film's production.[69] The Pittsburgh leg of production wrapped after three weeks on August 21, 2011, before moving on to Los Angeles and New York.[70] The Trump Tower replaced the Richard J. Daley Center as the location for the headquarters of Wayne Enterprises.[71] In November 2011, shooting shifted to Newark, New Jersey.[72][73] Newark City Hall and Military Park were among the locations used for filming.[74] Other shooting locations include London and Glasgow, the latter of which was used for "additional exterior filming".[75] Principal photography concluded on November 14, 2011.[76]

Production photos from filming in Pittsburgh showed a second Tumbler chassis after the first was destroyed in The Dark Knight.[77] Further set photos revealed a "new vehicle" being transported to Wabash Tunnel, prompting speculation as to its nature.[78] In June 2011, Autoblog confirmed the presence of the new Lamborghini Aventador on the film set.[79]

Several accidents occurred during the production of the film. While filming at Wollaton Hall, a tractor-trailer crashed into the main entrance, though no one was injured.[80] A stuntman parachutist later crashed through the roof of a home in Cairngorm Gliding Club, Feshiebridge in Scotland, and became wedged there after a failed landing during a skydiving stunt; he was not seriously injured.[81] While filming scenes in Pittsburgh, Hathaway's stunt double crashed into an IMAX camera while filming a sequence that required her to ride a Batpod down a flight of stairs during a riot. There were no injuries, but the camera was destroyed.[82] A second accident took place in Pittsburgh when the truck carrying the new, unidentified vehicle went off-course and crashed into a lighting array, damaging the model of the aircraft. Production was delayed while the model was repaired.[83]

Marketing

In May 2011, the film's official website was launched, introducing a viral marketing campaign similar to the one used to promote The Dark Knight. When the website was opened, an encrypted audio file played the noise of what has been described as chanting. When the audio file was decrypted, it gave a link to the film's official Twitter account. For every person who commented on the Twitter account, a pixel was removed from the webpage, eventually revealing the first official image of Bane.[84] When creating the film's soundtrack, Hans Zimmer crowdsourced online audio recordings of a chant to be used in the film's score.[85][86]

File:Operation-Early-Bird.jpg
OperationEarlyBird.com led fans to a countdown timer, when the countdown timer finished, it revealed a map that located all available theaters that screened the film's prologue earlier than its actual release.

In July 2011, a teaser trailer that was meant to be released with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 was leaked online.[87] It was released by the studio three days later. Responses to the trailer were mixed; Stephen Spencer Davis of Slate wrote that it successfully built hype,[87] while Kofi Outlaw of ScreenRant was disappointed with the trailer, claiming that it was more of an "announcement trailer" than an actual teaser trailer. Outlaw criticized the quality of the trailer, writing that a scene depicting Commissioner Gordon in a hospital bed was overly dramatic, had "hammy" dialogue, and was difficult to understand due to Gordon's labored breathing. Outlaw wrote that the final sweeping shot of Gotham City had poor CGI and was too reminiscent of the trailer for Inception.[88] A theatrical teaser trailer for The Dark Knight Rises was attached to theatrical prints of Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.[89] Like the teaser trailer, the theatrical trailer was also leaked online[90] before being released the following week.[91] Critics noted political undertones to the trailer, with dialogue foreshadowing the theme of income inequality and an "Occupy Gotham" campaign within the world of the story.[92][93][94] Receiving more than 12.5 million views in the first 24 hours after its release, the trailer set the record for most combined downloads from iTunes, beating the previous record held by The Avengers.[95]

Continuing a method used with The Dark Knight whereby the opening sequence of the film was attached to IMAX prints of I Am Legend seven months before release,[96] a six-minute prologue of The Dark Knight Rises was attached to 70mm IMAX prints of Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, again approximately seven months before release.[97] Critical reaction to the prologue was positive,[98][99][100] with one critic commenting that "no one gets to make a film on this kind of scale anymore. Except for Christopher Nolan", though a round-up of reviews highlighted the way many critics found Tom Hardy's dialogue very difficult to hear.[101] When asked about the problem after the screening, Christopher Nolan replied that "additional sound work" during post-production would make the dialogue easier to understand.[102]

Viral marketing campaigns for the film continued as magazine companies Empire and Wired received "CIA documents" concerning a "Dr. Leonid Pavel", with its mugshot connected to actor Alon Abutbul. According to the first document, Pavel is a missing Russian nuclear physicist, while the second document appears to be an edited transcript of a conversation discussing the handover of Dr. Pavel to the CIA by Georgian separatists, but with most of the conversation redacted.[28] These were later shown to be plot elements of the six-minute prologue.[98] The official Twitter account later linked to another censored document, this time, referencing "Operation Early Bird". A website of the same name was discovered, revealing a countdown timer. When the countdown finished, the site presented a map showing all available theaters that would be screening the film's prologue earlier than its release.[103][104] Various websites received a package that included a cylinder map of "strike zones", and a "fire rises" T-shirt.[105]

In January 2012, six months prior to the film's release, tickets for midnight IMAX showings in New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles went on sale and sold out immediately. Purchased tickets have surfaced for sale online for over $100 dollars, compared to their original price of $17.50.[106]

At the American International Toy Fair, Mattel unveiled figures for Batman, Bane, and Catwoman, and Batman's flying vehicle, "The Bat". The Mattel figures will also be released in the "Movie Masters" line, featuring more highly detailed and articulated presentation, and Quiktek versions which feature interchangeable accessories. Lego is set to release building sets and mini-figures based on the film and incorporating other DC Comic characters. Additionally, Funko is releasing a series of plush toys, Mezco Toyz are releasing vinyl figures, and Hornby are releasing the Batman Tumbler car.[107]

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