The Dark Knight Rises - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[francisco]

Tom Hardy described Bane as an absolute terrorist: "He's brutal, but also incredibly clinical, in the fact that he has a result-based and oriented fighting style. The style is heavy-handed, heavy-footed, it's nasty. It's not about fighting, it's about carnage."

[aaron]

As with the previous two movies, Bruce Wayne's main car is a Lamborghini. (Batman Begins (2005): Lamborghini Murciélago Roadster, The Dark Knight (2008): Lamborghini Murciélago LP640, this movie: Lamborghini Aventador LP 700-4. The name "Murciélago" means "bat" in Spanish.

[gabriel]

In the football stadium sequence, the cast and extras are all wearing heavy winter clothing, though the scenes were shot during a massive heat wave across the East Coast during the summer of 2011.

[amber]

The first draft of the script ran approximately four hundred pages.

[bernice]

Christian Bale surprised locals by casually dropping in to enjoy some British craft ale at the Admiral Rodney pub in Wollaton, Nottingham, while filming the exteriors to Wayne Manor at Wollaton Hall.

[eli]

According to Tom Hardy, he based his voice for Bane on Bartley Gorman (1944 - 2002), an Irish traveller who was the undefeated bare-knuckle boxing champion of the United Kingdom: "The choice of the accent is actually a man called Bartley Gorman, who was a bare knuckle fighter, a Romani gypsy. So I wanted to underpin the Latin, but a Romani Latin opposed to Latino."

[sylvia]

Anne Hathaway, Natalie Portman, Keira Knightley, Kate Mara, Gemma Arterton, Jessica Biel, Blake Lively, Lady Gaga, and Charlotte Riley (Tom Hardy's fiancée at the time), auditioned for the role of Selina Kyle/Catwoman. After the initial audition process, Hathaway, Biel, and Mara all screentested.

[francisco]

Cillian Murphy holds the record for the most frequently appearing Batman villain, he played Dr. Jonathan Crane a.k.a. The Scarecrow in all three movies in The Dark Knight trilogy.

[chris]

(At around forty-seven minutes) After Bane's team robs the Stock Exchange, the chase scene contains a shot of the tablet which is counting down from ninety-one seconds at 47:40. At the end of the scene, it reads 49:10. The chase sequence lasts exactly ninety seconds.

[jim]

Selina Kyle's catsuit was made from two layers of polyurethane-coated spandex.

[mathew]

Christopher Nolan is the first director to complete a full trilogy of Batman movies, but the second to direct a full trilogy of movies of one superhero (after Sam Raimi completed his Spider-Man movies).

[oscar]

During production in Pittsburgh, a local man was arrested for attempting to steal an unmarked police car. He said he was an actor, and that his crime was actually a scene for this movie. A local newspaper ran a story with the headline, "Like Batman, car thief's story does not fly."

[kenzi]

On July 20, 2012, during a midnight screening in Aurora, Colorado, James Holmes entered the theater and opened fire, killing twelve people and injuring fifty-eight. He was arrested outside the theater a few minutes after the shooting, and charged with twenty-four counts of murder and one hundred sixteen counts of attempted murder. In August 2015, Holmes was sentenced in life in prison without parole. After the incident, several cast and crew members, including Christopher Nolan, Christian Bale, Anne Hathaway, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Gary Oldman, released statements expressing their sorrow over the attack. Their publicity appearances, including a lavish premiere in France, were cancelled. Warner Brothers decided not to release opening weekend grosses until the following Monday out of consideration for the victims. Bale visited the survivors at the hospital several days later. Composer Hans Zimmer, who found out about the shooting after a phone call, composed a choral piece, "Aurora", which he dedicated to those who lost their lives and their loved ones.

[linda]

Christian Bale personally dyed part of his hair, to make Bruce Wayne look somewhat older.

[clayton]

In designing the Batwing, production designer Nathan Crowley approached it as if it were an actual military project, emphasizing the need for it to "fit into the same family as the Tumbler and the Batpod". He incorporated designs from military aircraft, including the Harrier Jump Jet, Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey, and the Boeing AH-64 Apache.

[melinda]

Writer, producer, and director Christopher Nolan used a heavy mask motif through out the movie; Batman, Bane, and Catwoman all wear masks, Bruce Wayne has a collection of African tribal masks in the room where he and Officer Blake first talk in Wayne Manor, and Miranda Tate hosts a masquerade party.

[darrell]

This is the only Batman movie in the trilogy (and in history) where the final battle takes place at dawn. They always took place at night.

[bernard]

Anne Hathaway (Catwoman) had been cast as Black Cat (Felicia Hardy) in The Amazing Spider-Man (2012), which, at that time, was under Sam Raimi's direction as "Spider-Man 4" and was going to feature the Vulture and Black Cat.

[manuel]

Tom Hardy is the second actor to play Bane in the Batman film franchises. The role was previously played by Jeep Swenson in Batman & Robin (1997).

[duane]

Christopher Nolan offered James Newton Howard the opportunity to write the score with Hans Zimmer as he did for Batman Begins (2005) and The Dark Knight (2008), but Howard felt that due to the collaboration between Nolan and Zimmer on Inception (2010), he would be like a third wheel.