Christopher Nolan ’s third and final Batman motion picture arrive out next calendar month , and we ’ve been call an epic climax . But what will actually bechance to the Dark Knight in The Dark Knight jump ? Batman expert Will Brooker , author of the new book hunt the Dark Knight : 21st Century Batman , has studied the trailers and viral marketing , and he ’s point out some shout - outs to sure key Batman comics .
Here are six major Batman comics that Nolan seems to be draw on — and the hint they provide about what happen to Bruce Wayne in Nolan ’s last Bat - film .
Top image : top detail of Batman : Gates of Gotham .
Nolan and screenwriter David S. Goyer freely let in that key moments in Batman Begins and The Dark Knight were adapted from Hellenic comics and graphical novels of the last thirty long time , particularly Frank Miller ’s Year One and Loeb and Sale ’s The recollective Halloween and Dark Victory .
One nip from the Dark Knight arise preview cue eagle - eyed TV audience into the more late generator material Nolan and Goyer are using for the third movie in the trilogy .
realize those exploding span ? They ’re from Gates of Gotham , a 2011 series written by Scott Snyder .
Gates of Gotham is a Batman story , but this Dark Knight is n’t Bruce Wayne ; it ’s his former sidekick Dick ‘ Robin ’ Grayson . If Nolan need to show a younger man taking on the Caped Crusader ’s cowl , he ’s dumbfound a simulation for it right here — and it looks like he ’s been reading this account nearly .
There are other reasons why Gates of Gotham would snaffle Nolan ’s aid . Its primal plot of land conceit has two chum change their names , and their descendant taking on a fake character to hold back his heritage . Nolan ’s motion picture are conjure up trick , build around doubles , Gemini the Twins , dual identities and last - instant reversals ; this form of gimmick is just his style .
We know that Dark Knight rise , like Batman Begins , Memento and Inception , show off back to the past tense to serve explain the present , so Scott Snyder ’s narrative of false identity operator may bring home the bacon further inspiration for its plot dynamics . Batman Begins see Liam Neeson regorge as ‘ Henri Ducard ’ , and only break as Ra ’s al Ghul in a third - act switcheroo ; is Nolan really going to cast another of his favorite Inception player , Marion Cotillard , as a no - mark minor character called ‘ Miranda Tate ’ , or could she be Ra ’s al Ghul ’s girl , Talia ?
Batman Begins owe two of its most memorable scenes - – the young Bruce ’s tumble into the Bat - Cave , and Batman ’s caper of hanging a perp top side - down over the city - – to Frank Miller ’s 1986 epic , The Dark Knight Returns .
Themost late Dark Knight Rises footage , bring out at the MTV Movie Awards on 4th June , show that Nolan is quoting straight from Miller again . A veteran cop , recognising Batman , grin to his rookie colleague that they ’re in for a show ; that sequence was storyboarded in the comics , back in 1986 .
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Miller ’s greatest innovation , as fellow author Alan Moore notes in his introduction to the graphic novel , was giving Batman a ‘ final and expectant battle ’ , and providing his chronicle with a mythic gag rule worthy of Robin Hood .
Miller ’s four - parter conclude with Bruce Wayne faking his end , and then – on the last Sir Frederick Handley Page – emerge into a new lifespan , without costumes and mask , but lead an underground army of fast youthful soldiers .
Nolan quote directly from Miller ’s Dark Knight Returns to show us Bruce Wayne ’s childhood – what could be more fitting than to refund to that seminal Batman graphic novel of the 1980s , to end the storey ?
The most obvious brainchild for Nolan ’s Dark Knight Rises is the 1993 tarradiddle - arc Knightfall , which face Batman off against Bane for the first time . Part One , ‘ humbled Bat ’ , ends with the iconic scene of Bane snapping Batman ’s spine :
Unsurprisingly , we have n’t visit that moment in the trailers , but the guessing of a limping Bruce Wayne , and Bane crushing the Bat - bonnet , powerfully suggest it ’s come .
But let ’s not forget the plot of land equipment that drives Knightfall Part Two , ‘ Who Rules The Night ’ . Bruce Wayne spends most of the news report in a wheelchair , and Batman , once again , is encounter by a younger man : in this case , the religious acolyte and assassin Jean - Paul Valley . There are no obvious candidates on Nolan ’s cast to take Valley ’s role – - but Joseph Gordon - Levitt , as ‘ all in bull ’ John Blake , look like a shoo - in if someone else has to wear the mantle of the bat while Wayne is out of action .
The viral marketing campaign for Dark Knight wax encourage rooter to search for and photograph rough , graffiti sketches of a Bat - logotype , dispel around the populace :
Again , we can find oneself an origin for this icon in the comic books — and it appears in the No Man ’s Land saga from 1999 . ( That story also opens with the span that link Gotham to the mainland being demolish ) .
In a Gotham without Batman , gangs run sidesplitter , stake their dominion through graffiti tags : and when Batman returns – as he does after eight years of exile in Nolan ’s Dark Knight rise – - he has to learn the new language , adopting his own street signifier to show he ’s back .
But that conversant - looking silhouette ? Not Bruce Wayne . Again , someone else is behind the mask – - in this case , the new Batgirl Cassandra Cain . We ’re not bear Marion Cotillard to take on the role of the female crimefighter , but it ’s further validation that , in all the comics that have explicitly inspire Nolan this fourth dimension around , ‘ Batman ’ is more than just a individual person .
‘ Are you ready to lead off ? ’ Henri Ducard asks Bruce Wayne , at the startle of their training . His advice to Bruce provides a further clue about how Nolan ’s trilogy might end . ‘ A vigilance man is just a man lose in the scurry for his own satisfaction . He can be put down , or locked up . But if you make yourself more than just a humans , if you devote yourself to an ideal , and if they ca n’t terminate you , then you become something else alone . A legend , Mr Wayne . ’
The substance has been there since too soon in the first installment : Batman is more than just a man , more than Bruce Wayne . With Ra ’s al Ghul returning in this final instalment , can there be any incertitude that his prediction will come up honest , and that Bruce will have to finally take his wise man ’s object lesson to heart ?
“ You do n’t owe these people anymore , ’ Selina Kyle tells Bruce in the Dark Knight Rises trailer . ‘ You ’ve pass on them everything . ”
“ Not everything , ” he replies gruffly . “ Not yet . ”
What else can Batman give to Gotham – - except Bruce Wayne ?
But the sneak footage and tease cloth for Dark Knight Rises should also give Bat - fan some hope that their hero is going to make it .
By adopting the viral marketing technique of enlisting fans around the mankind to tweet Bat - graffiti , The Dark Knight uprise demonstrated Batman ’s grip of crowd - sourcing and the beehive - judgement . The viral marketing for The Dark Knight ask round fans to see themselves as the Joker ’s follower , boost them electronic mail pictures of themselves in make - up to a ‘ Why So Serious ’ website , while the trailer for Dark Knight rise , in turn , show Bane ’s control of the crew . For too long , Batman ’s considered himself as an individual , a lone vigilante on a warfare against the worldly concern of law-breaking . That ’s the old modelling , and it wo n’t work in this movie . Bane combine nous and brawn , but his major power lie not so much in his biceps and pecs as in his savvy of the great unwashed , his power to lead .
This movie is about the conflict for Gotham ; the urban center and its citizens . It ’s not man - against - man , or Dark Knight against Joker , as we saw in the previous celluloid . It ’s the fight for the loyalty and command of the raft . By learning the language of the street , and realizing that Batman has to be more than just a single individual , Bruce Wayne is agnise the importance of myth , folklore and urban fable to the Dark Knight - – and that ’s going to be the key to his own triumph .
Because Batman , as his fans have known for decades , can never pass .
Will Brooker is top dog of photographic film and television research at Kingston University , London . His books include Batman Unmasked , Using the Force , Alice ’s Adventures , The Blade Runner Experience and the BFI Film Classics volume on Star Wars . His new book , hunt the Dark Knight : 21st Century Batman , is published by I B Tauris in June 2012 .
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