Typically movie posters don't give me goosebumps, but I have to confess this one captured my attention. With The Dark Knight Rises still seven months from release (sigh), all things Batman have been heating up this week as director Christopher Nolan's viral campaign is in full force.
First the Nolan camp leaked a fake CIA dossier to Wired and Empire about a Dr. Leonid Pavel (Alon Aboutboul). While fanboys everywhere are blowing up the Internet with speculation about this dossier, most seem to think he's connected with Bane somehow. A few have even offered that he Pavel may be the real name of another Batman villain known as Dr. Hugo Strange. The only thing the public knows for certain is that he is a nuclear physicist and he's "missing."
Next there was a countdown clock on the website that revealed what IMAX theaters were going to show the six minute Bane-prologue that's airing before Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol.
Now this poster.
This may single handedly be one of the most ominous posters I've ever seen for a film. Notice how stark and bereft of color it is. Then of course there is Bane walking away from the scene having apparently just opening a can on Batman. Then there is the tagline, "The Legend Ends." It's almost like saying "The Legend Dies."
So what exactly does this poster suggest if anything? Well for those of you unfamiliar with the Batman universe, Bane is the one villain that ever did any serious damage to Batman. Point of fact he broke his damn back. He ended up recovering through the help of a psychic healer named Dr. Shondra Kinsolving. Since Nolan tends to ground Batman in reality (well as much as possible) I doubt that Kinsolving or her psychic healing powers will show up.
But as for Bane breaking Batman's back? This poster suggests that bit of comic book history may come to pass in the upcoming film. Nolan and Tom Hardy (Bane) have already come out and said that Bane is an incredibly vicious character who breaks bones and rips throats. (Like MacGruber?) At the very least Batman is going to be taken to the woodshed in Rises. Furthermore, the tagline even suggests that Batman may die in the next film.
As for Batman's death I think that is highly unlikely. While I suspect that the third installment will be the darkest of the trilogy, I doubt that Nolan would extend a giant middle finger to moviegoers by killing the Caped Crusader.
Well time will tell. Hopefully, we will receive a little more insight when the prologue and the trailer come out next week.
July 20, 2012 can't come soon enough for me.
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