I believe movies are one of the great American art forms and the shared experience of watching a story unfold on screen is an important and joyful pastime. The grandfather is able to save Wayne's life by taking Wayne to his cabin and tells him a story on how the Bat gained its wings, while wearing a mask of a bat. An "unnamed" Warner Brothers executive clarified that "We see this placement as a good strategic decision. The movie theatre is my home, and the idea that someone would violate that innocent and hopeful place in such an unbearably savage way is devastating to me. "[284] In contrast, liberal commentator Jonathan Chait opined in New York that "What passes for a right-wing movie these days is The Dark Knight Rises, which submits the rather modest premise that, irritating though the rich may be, actually killing them and taking all their stuff might be excessive. The Joker then encounters Alfred Pennyworth and Damian Wayne in the Batmobile. "[70] Nolan said that he never even thought a third film was possible in the foreword for his book The Art and Making of the Dark Knight Trilogy. [209] The shooting is also speculated to have hurt the ticket sales as E! Harley Quinn would appear as a supporting character, written as the Joker's daughter trying to kill Batman to avenge her father's death. A child version of Wayne is portrayed by Dante Pereira-Olson in Joker, directed by Todd Phillips. [187], On July 20, 2012, during a midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises at the Century16 cinema in Aurora, Colorado, a gunman wearing a gas mask opened fire inside the theater,[188] killing 12 people and injuring 58 others. [140] The studio released the teaser three days after the leak. [7], The series has grossed over $4.99 billion at the global box office, making it the eleventh highest-grossing film franchise of all time. The story also mentions of a serial killer called the Pale-Man who operated in Gotham long before Batman's arrival, implying that the Joker may be centuries old. 20, with 25,000 copies sold in the first week. [121] A second accident took place in Pittsburgh when the truck carrying the then-unidentified vehicle later termed "the Bat" went off-course and crashed into a lighting array, damaging the model of the aircraft. 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Mantenha-se ao corrente das ltimas notcias da poltica europeia, da economia e do desporto na euronews This included trying to kidnap the mayor for a ransom similar to his first appearance, although this time he kills the mayor's staff instead. At some point prior to the events of the film, Wayne Manor has decayed, and Bruce and Alfred relocated to a smaller glass house above the Batcave. [64], In 2005, David S. Goyer confirmed that he wrote treatments for two films involving the Joker; the first would involve Batman, Harvey Dent, and Commissioner Gordon hunting the Joker, while the second would have the Joker scarring Dent and turning him into Two-Face during his trial. [79] Shortly afterward, it was announced David S. Goyer and Jonathan Nolan were working on a screenplay. Some of the creative talent who have worked on the series include Chuck Dixon, Alan Grant, Archie Goodwin, Dennis O'Neil, Dwayne McDuffie, Doug Moench, Grant Morrison, Mike Mignola, Bill Willingham, Matt Wagner and Marshall Rogers. The Batman: Mitefall special used the modern version of Bat-Mite, who first appeared in Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #38, to parody the Knightfall storyline. [9] Zimmer and Howard both believed that creating a heroic theme that a viewer could hum would ignore the complexity and darkness of the character. The Joker helps fight off the invasion, eventually running out of ammunition. Meanwhile, it has been eight years after the death of District Attorney Harvey Dent,[N 1] and organized crime has been eradicated in Gotham City as legislation giving expanded powers to the police. [18] [45] Val Kilmer did not return, because of scheduling conflicts with The Saint,[46] and was replaced by George Clooney. [221] The film also became the second movie (after Avatar) to reach $100million in worldwide IMAX grosses. [163] Affleck, Miller, Fisher, Heard, and Manganiello returned to their respective roles for additional photography, in order to finish the project, with Jared Leto also reprising his role as The Joker from Suicide Squad. Hans Zimmer was the composer of this particular track. His most recurring gadget is his high-voltage hand-buzzer where he literally electrocutes his victims with a handshake. The plot is based on Batman, a US government agent, attempting to defeat the Japanese agent Dr. Daka, at the height of World War II. The film opened on June 15, 2005, in the United States and Canada in 3,858theaters. This is no surprise because, unlike what many movie producers erroneously think, people who go watch a movie based on a comic book aren't doing so hoping to see a bunch of unrealistic people running around in strange costumes, saying weird lines, and doing cartoony things, such as in Batman and Robin. [66], The Batman OnStar commercials were a series of six television commercials featuring Batman, created by ad-agency Campbell-Ewald and aired from 2000 to the beginning of 2002. While Harvey threatens a thug using his coin and a revolver. On the way, Batman meets another coma victim in need of assistance. It was made by Gameloft. The heroes of the world try to fight off the rampaging villains, while Black Canary discovers that Joker's doctor modified his CAT scan to make it appear that he had a fatal tumor in an attempt to subdue him with the threat of death. The Joker looked at Bruce, and at the card, and clearly identifies the situation, but shows no reaction, choosing to ignore it entirely. The story was one of several Batman/Catwoman stories that were officially declared non-canon following the events of Zero Hour.[3]. [57] Clooney, O'Donnell, and Silverstone were set to reprise the roles of Batman, Robin, and Batgirl. Meanwhile, Clark Kent is struggling because of a recent divorce from Lois Lane. [70] Yakin developed one draft of the Batman Beyond screenplay with the writers but soon lost interest,[71] and Warner Bros. abandoned Batman Beyond almost instantly in favor of Batman: Year One. Seeing how hard he has fallen, Batman saves Martha Kent from Luthor's minions, and then fights alongside Superman and Wonder Woman to contain the Kryptonian deformity Luthor created to kill Superman. The League attempt to attack Gotham using Jonathan Crane's weaponised fear toxin, but Batman is able to defeat them. Freeze, while Uma Thurman played Poison Ivy, Alicia Silverstone played Batgirl, and Robert Swenson played Bane. Though Joker believed he'd chose him, Batman ultimately chose to save her, leaving him to die. Carnage becomes distracted and Batman knocks him out, while Spider-Man uses a web-line to steal the viral container from Joker, chasing him into an alley and knocking him out cold. During Dent's conversation with the Mayor in his office when the hanged Batman imposter slams on the window. In addition to the 14 tracks on the regular release, an additional 10 tracks of score were added to the second disc, along with four remixes by The Crystal Method, Paul van Dyk, Mel Wesson, and Ryeland Allison, packaged as a digibook in a semi-artificial leather slipcase with the Bat-Signal cut out. The police arrive and pursue Bane and Daggett's henchmen into the sewers while Kyle flees. As he desperately tries to crawl to the Dioneusum to heal, he is restrained by Batman until the cave roof falls into the pool, destroying it. Batman instructs Alfred to enact plan "Fenrir", a powerful, robotic-armor designed by Batman to do battle with the entire Justice League, flanked by a gas attack that evacuates Gotham City's citizens from the area. WebThe title of this film The Dark Knight marks the first time a Batman film has not featured the character's name in the title note . Jason's death has haunted him since and has intensified his obsession with his archenemy. Batman finds the small book the Joker was always bragging about, and checks its pages, only to find they are all blank. Bane is very complex and very interesting and when people see the finished film people will be very entertained by him. [277][278][279], Writing in Salon, David Sirota, a progressive[280] political commentator, compared The Dark Knight Rises and the game Call of Duty to 1980s popular culture reflecting the political period of the time, accusing them of perpetuating a conservative agenda: "Just as so many 1980s pop culture products reflected the spirit of the Reagan Revolution's conservative backlash, we are now seeing two blockbuster, genre-shaping products not-so-subtly reflect the Tea Party's rhetorical backlash to the powerful Occupy Wall Street zeitgeist. This incarnation of Gotham Citys Mayor is left unnamed in the film, but is named Roscoe Jenkins in the novelization. WebThe Batman is a 2022 American superhero film based on the DC Comics character Batman.Produced by DC Films, 6th & Idaho, and Dylan Clark Productions, and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, it is a reboot of the Batman film franchise.The film was directed by Matt Reeves, who wrote the screenplay with Peter Craig.It stars Robert Pattinson as During the Darkseid War the restored Batman acquires the Mobius Chair and asks "What's the Joker's real name?" The two decide to team up and stop Luthor. [82][83] The nickname "the Dark Knight" was first applied to Batman in Batman #1 (1940), in a story written by Bill Finger. Batman and the Man-Bat's first encounter is retold through the point-of-view of the Man-Bat. Originally introduced in Batman: The Animated Series, Quinn is a clinical psychiatrist who falls hopelessly in love with the Joker in Arkham Asylum after he relays his tale of having an abusive father and a runaway mother, and now serves as his loyal, if daffy, sidekick, costumed in a skintight harlequin suit. [122], Shortly before Christmas of 2011, Christopher Nolan invited several prominent directors, including Edgar Wright, Michael Bay, Bryan Singer, Jon Favreau, Eli Roth, Duncan Jones and Stephen Daldry, to Universal CityWalk's IMAX theatre for a private screening of the first six minutes of The Dark Knight Rises, which had been shot on IMAX film and edited from the original camera negative. [87], During location scouting in December 2010, Nolan began searching for locations such as India, Romania, and Michigan. Joker is later re-incarcerated in Arkham Asylum, where he is bound by a straitjacket and a muzzle. [105][106], The film begins with the death of Bruce's parents and then explores his decision to leave Gotham and his training under the League of Shadows, with Ra's al Ghul, before he rebels against the League and adopts the guise of Batman, recognising that he cannot condone their use of lethal force. Guber and Peters left PolyGram Pictures in 1982 and took the Batman film rights with them, although PolyGram would retain at least 7.5% of the profits of said rights due to a contractual agreement. The Joker commits crimes with countless "comedic" weapons (such as razor-sharp playing cards, acid flowers, cyanide pies and lethal electric joy buzzers) and Joker Venom, also called "Happy Gas" by the Joker, a deadly poison that infects his victims with a ghoulish rictus grin as they die while laughing uncontrollably. "[214], The Dark Knight Rises earned $448.1million in North America, and $632.9million in other countries, summing up to a worldwide total of $1.081billion. As time runs out, Superman realizes that the Joker still is unwilling to erase Batman from existence, as the Joker totally defines himself by his opposition to the Dark Knight; if the Joker can't even willingly erase one man, how can he destroy the universe? Superman. Technically, most of the stories in Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight are in the accepted Batman continuity, albeit with a number of exceptions. Katie Holmes turned down her role as Rachel, and Maggie Gyllenhaal was cast instead. This story is considered non-canon. Superman's powerful will allows him to fight off the Joker's influence enough to make contact with the weakened Mxyzptlk, who along with a less-powerful Spectre, encourages Superman to work out the Joker's weakness before reality is destroyed by the Joker's misuse of Mxyzptlk's power. [187] Other stars of the film released statements expressing their condolences, with star Christian Bale paying a personal visit to the survivors and the memorial in Aurora. When Thomas Blake starts murdering young women, Batman and Catwoman form an uneasy alliance to stop him. The fictional superhero Batman, who appears in American comic books published by DC Comics, has appeared in various films since his inception. The film stars [80] 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. Stricken with grief, he attempts to back out of the plan, but the criminals strong-arm him into keeping his promise. During its second week in release, the track fell to No. [96][97][98], Following a rejected Batman origin story reboot Joss Whedon pitched in December 2002,[99][100] Warner Bros. hired Christopher Nolan and David S. Goyer to script Batman Begins. The cowl was sculpted from a cast of Bale's face and head to become a perfect fit for Christian Bale. The Dark Knight Rises is a 2012 superhero film directed by Christopher Nolan, who co-wrote the screenplay with his brother Jonathan Nolan, and the story with David S. The title comes from the scene when Two-Face is confronted by Batman and says, "And the only morality in a cruel world is chance". In the Batman story line "War Crimes", this continued ruling of insanity is in fact made possible by The Joker's own dream team of lawyers. Two-Face takes over a small island with plans to create a society in his own scarred image. [113] Principal photography concluded on November 14, 2011. Note: For the course of nearly an entire year (11 issues) Legends of the Dark Knight abandoned its anthology format and became a regular continuity Batman book, crossing over with its fellow Batman titles (Batman, Detective Comics and Shadow of the Bat) and spin-offs (Azrael, Catwoman, Robin, and Nightwing) for the duration of the No Man's Land storyline. He'll Mentor Superman 3.0 And Prep 3rd Batman", "Bat Signal Up: Here's what we know so far about The Dark Knight Rises", "Clues from the Comics About Batman's Fate in The Dark Knight Rises", "When Was Batman First Referred To As 'The Dark Knight'? The series, for the most part, eschewed appearances by other DC Universe superheroes and focused on Batman and his closest partners Alfred Pennyworth, Commissioner Gordon, and Batman's rogues gallery. The Joker soon returns as a member of Libra's Secret Society of Super Villains during Final Crisis. [60] In 2008, the Rooney family sold a minority stake in the team to Thomas Tull, the CEO and president of Legendary Pictures, which produced The Dark Knight Rises. [171] On July 4, 2012, the studio signed a deal with Formula One team Lotus F1 to have the film's logos appear on the Lotus E20s driven by Kimi Rikknen and Romain Grosjean at the 2012 British Grand Prix. [85] Horn reportedly preferred Abrams' optimistic Superman script to the darker Batman vs. Superman script; studio executives voted 11-1 for the former. ", "Limbaugh's 'Dark Knight Rises' Comments 'Bizarre,' Says Nolan", "Pick a Dark Knight Rises Controversy: Christopher Nolan, Morgan Freeman Weigh In", "Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music", "Argo Wins Big With Denver Film Critics Society", "International Online Film Critics' Poll", "Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards 2012", "The People's Choice Awards nominees are . A foreign diplomat whose country is guilty of violating human rights is targeted by a group of terrorists. It is considered one of the greatest superhero films of all time,[7][8] one of the best films of the 2010s,[9][10][11][12][13] and one of the best sequels of all time.[14][15][16]. [268][269], CNN's Tom Charity said the film was a "disappointingly clunky and bombastic conclusion to a superior series" and called it Nolan's worst film. Having no desires or personality traits that are hidden, the Joker essentially is himself but with near invulnerability, super speed, strength and other abilities. William Austin, who played Alfred, had a trim physique and sported a thin mustache, while the contemporary comic book version of Alfred was overweight and clean-shaven prior to the serial's release. [161] In April 2012, the film's official website was updated with a "dossier" on a suspect named "John Doe" also known as "the Batman" for an arrest, with a list of several accusations. Principal photography began in April 2007 in Chicago and concluded in November. Meanwhile, the Joker uses his regenerative abilities to survive the long swim into the Batcave and its defenses. [114] The external waterfall scene at the end of the film was shot at Sgwd Henrhyd falls, on the edge of the Brecon Beacons National Park in Wales. [255] CinemaScore reported that audiences gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale. During his latest battle with Batman, the Joker is inadvertently exposed to his own Joker venom. WebThe Dark Knight: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack album to the 2008 film of the same name, which is a sequel to Christopher Nolan's 2005 film Batman Begins.The soundtrack was released on July 15, 2008, in three editions: CD, limited edition CD digipak, and digital download.The 2-CD Special Edition was released on December 9, [185][186], "I would not presume to know anything about the victims of the shooting but that they were there last night to watch a movie. After Batman foils a group of mercenaries in their attempt to free an imprisoned national, the group attempts to hold a cruise ship full of wealthy Gothamites hostage. Kane, who started out as a gag artist, loved the concept and encouraged its production. This section shows characters who will appear or have appeared in multiple "franchises" of Batman films. [145][146][147] Receiving more than 12.5million 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. 2) #97 (February 1995). He releases the prisoners of Blackgate, instates martial law in the city, and exiles and kills Gotham's elite in kangaroo courts presided over by Jonathan Crane. He has a Jokerized Alfred "serve" the family and reveal the contents under the silver platters; the face of every member. In addition Joker has had an equally numerous amount of nicknames over the years, including "The Clown Prince of Crime", "The Ace of Knaves", "The Harlequin of Hate", and Harley Quinn's personal favorite "Puddin'". [177] Limited editions of the Lumia 710, Lumia 800 and Lumia 900 were also released featuring a laser-etched Batman logo. 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