Designer Doğan Can Gündoğdu has created what feels like a dark, TV crime show-inspired homage (think CSI and other forensic-themed thrillers) in his opening title sequence for Christopher Nolan’s upcoming The Dark Knight Rises. The gritty trailer would make a great intro for the bat-hero should he make his way back to the small screen, but like io9, we could easily see this clip in the film thanks to it’s high production value and great design. Check out the impressive credits sequence past the break, and let us know if you think it’s Nolan-worthy.
Welcome to “Trailer Park,” our regular Friday feature where we collect the week’s new trailers all in one place and do a little “judging a book by its cover,” ranking them from worst to best and taking our best guess at what they may be hiding. We’ve got eight new trailers for you this week from all-star directors and former child stars; check ‘em all out after the jump.
Let’s put this right out front: nobody’s looking forward to The Dark Knight Rises more than we are. It led off our list of 2012′s most anticipated movies; we sing the praises of every new teaser they put out in our weekly “Trailer Park” roundups. This is a movie we’re really, really looking forward to. But you have to draw a line somewhere, and we think this might be it.
According to Variety, tickets are now available for the first, midnight IMAX screenings of The Dark Knight Rises — that’s right, six full months in advance. So if you’re one hundred percent certain that you won’t have anywhere to be at 12:01am on the night of Thursday, July 19th, you can hop on over to Fandango (here’s the link for my fellow New Yorkers — that IMAX screen at the AMC Loews Lincoln Square 13 is a peach), plop down your $20, and have yourself a ticket right now. You might wanna choose the “print at kiosk” option, though, because the chances of misplacing the “print at home” ticket within the next six months are pretty high. Borderline astronomical, we’d say.
Oh wait, you can’t. The midnight screening six months from now is already sold out.
So, seriously, how out of control is the Hollywood Hype Machine these days?
Hey, guess what: 2012 is like, four days away. Exciting, eh? Well, aside from that whole Mayan calendar/end of the world business. And that there’s going to be a Presidential campaign all damned year, and the economy’s still in the toilet, and Community is on a “hiatus”… On second thought, 2012 is already looking pretty terrible, and it hasn’t even started yet.
No, wait! There will be new movies! Many, many new movies. And don’t kid yourself: plenty of them are going to be terrible (I mean, there’s a Battleship movie coming out, for God’s sake). But some of them look awesome! So in the spirit of cautious optimism, join us after the jump for a look at ten 2012 releases that we’re genuinely looking forward to.
Welcome to “Trailer Park,” our regular Friday feature where we collect the week’s new trailers all in one place and do a little “judging a book by its cover,” ranking them from worst to best and taking our best guess at what they may be hiding. This week’s seven trailers include several big-franchise sequels and (sort of) prequels (we think); check ‘em all out after the jump. Read More »
While many would happily listen to Tom Hardy talk gibberish as long as they got to stare longingly at him, Warner Bros. apparently doesn’t share that feeling when it comes to The Dark Knight Rises. The studio has asked director Christopher Nolan to edit the sound mix of the Bronson star’s voice after fans and several critics complained that he was pulling a Darth Vader beneath his headgear. Since Hardy’s version of the villainous strongman promises to be amazing, we’d have to agree and say that we’d like to be able to hear what he’s saying — and we think we can just fine for the most part.
THR reports that Nolan only wants to change things up slightly. A source elaborated that “Chris wants the audience to catch up and participate rather than push everything at them. He doesn’t dumb things down. You’ve got to pedal faster to keep up.” If you haven’t watched the trailer yet (and who are you?), check it out past the break. Let us know if mister mumbles should get a pass. Read More »
1. Slashfilm got an early look at Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises prologue, and discovered that the finished film will have a whopping 50 minutes of IMAX shot-and-projected footage. Here’s a spoiler-free recap.
2. This could be interesting: Spike Lee has signed on to direct Eddie Murphy in a new HBO biopic about former Washington DC mayor Marion Berry — aka the man once caught smoking crack in a hotel room full of prostitutes. John Ridley (Red Tails, Da Brick) is on board to pen the script. [via THR]
3. A group of Occupy Wall Street protestors took over the set of Law & Order: SVU last night; the show was shooting an episode that was centered around a fake encampment in Foley Square. “They’ve delivered us this perfectly wrapped Christmas present with a bow on top: they rebuilt our camp,” OWS organizer Jake De Groot told Mother Jones. “How could we not go and take it?” [via TV Squad]
4. “If Columbine is reenacted or some shit, that’s gonna be on my f*cking head. Yeah, it’ll be my fault, just like it was Em’s and Marilyn’s and fucking Slipknot’s and all them motherf*ckers.” — Tyler, the Creator is talking about Columbine again.
5. Pharrell Williams and famed composer Hans Zimmer have been named the musical consultants for this year’s Academy Awards; neither of them have worked on the show in the past. [via THR]
Last month, we reported on an interesting rumor floating around that Zuccotti Park would feature as a backdrop in Christopher Nolan’s new Batman movie, The Dark Knight Rises, which apparently just wrapped up production today. Now, thanks to IndieWire’s recent interview with Matthew Modine, who plays a supporting character named Nixon in the film, we now know the reason why that never came to be.
“The wisdom of Christopher Nolan and his incredible team was that, while it seemed like a good idea to give [the protestors] an opportunity for work, to give them money, it would send a terrible message,” he explains. “At the end of the day, we’re making a movie. What’s happening down there is more important than that. To co-opt what’s happening there and around the country… we didn’t want to trivialize it. It was more important to respect what they’re doing than to do anything that could potentially trivialize the political situation downtown.” Sounds reasonable to us. Are you glad that Nolan avoided the Occupy Wall Street protests altogether, or were you hoping to see them figure in to the film in some way? [via Vulture]
MTV may be documenting (or exploiting, or celebrating, or whatever) Occupy Wall Street in an upcoming True Life documentary, but don’t expect to see Zuccotti Park lighting up the big screen in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises. The production will begin shooting in New York before the end of the month, and it was reported last week that the film’s actors were being prepped for possible scenes at the demonstration. But Entertainment Weekly has just gotten word from Warner Bros. that dropping in on democracy in action is not actually part of Nolan’s plan. This all makes a certain kind of sense to us — heroic as he may be, if Bruce Wayne isn’t part of the 1%, we don’t know who is.
Jeff Mangum, Roseanne Barr, Talib Kweli, Naomi Klein, Slavoj Žižek, and even Kanye West have shown up at the Occupy Wall Street protests in the past month. Now, it looks like this powerful protest movement might find a permanent place in pop culture — as the setting for a scene in Christopher Nolan’s new Batman movie, The Dark Knight Rises. According to the Los Angeles Times, the production has left LA for New York City, where it will shoot for two weeks, beginning October 29th. An anonymous source close to the film said that actors have been informed that some scenes may be shot at the movement’s headquarters of Zuccotti Park, and the paper speculates that Nolan could simply be using Occupy Wall Street as a backdrop for a scene from the original shooting script. Of course, it’s possible that the demonstration will have been evicted from the park by the time The Dark Night Rises arrives — but we have to imagine that, if the city economy stands to profit from the shoot, Mayor Bloomberg will do his best to ensure that no one gets kicked out before it’s through. [via Slashfilm]
