An 8-minute IMAX prologue to Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises was screened for select Los Angeles press last night and while blow-by-blow descriptions were forbidden, very general descriptions are ok:
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The film briefly starts with Jim Gordon (Gary Oldman) giving the eulogy for Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart in The Dark Knight) before shifting to an IMAX-filmed aerial action set piece - this one set somewhere in Central Asia.
It's there the CIA is making a deal with local militia to retrieve a missing Russian nuclear physicist.
This leads to a massive heist-style action sequence onboard a private plane involving Bane (Tom Hardy) with "Inception" style stunts Aiden Gillen shows up in the sequence.
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Reviews of the footage offered high praise across the board with only one real complaint--Hardy's voice was said to be nearly impossible to understand, and to a lesser extent so were some of the other voices. The final film mix of sound is not locked....
In other news from the screening it has been revealed that around 40-50 minutes of the final film will probably consist of IMAX shot-and-projected footage. In comparison "The Dark Knight" featured just over half that amount
Asked for specific bits, Nolan told EW that "Basically all the actions sequences, and some of the more large-scale other bits of the film that aren’t necessarily action. We even shot some dialogue scenes and some quite intimate dramatic scenes, which we haven’t done before. And so some of that will make its way into the film."
Nolan hasn't begun editing the rest of the film yet, this prologue was the first thing they've done. While the next trailer will be in regular theatres from December 16th, it will NOT be released officially online until sometime the following week--meaning the first look for many (especially fans outside major U.S. cities) will likely be via crappy quality Youtube bootlegs next weekend.
The studio is giving North American and British viewers the chance to see it a few hours early. The official site has posted an audio recording of a woman reading of a list of co-ordinates which will allow people to attend an early screening of the TDKR prologue in major cities across the US, Canada and the UK on December 13th. The site Operations Early Bird Map has the locales and way to RSVP....
Christian Bale Anne Hathaway, Joseph Gordon-Levitt Marion Cotillard Josh Pence, Alon Aboutboul and Nestor Carbonell star along with return of the trilogy's ensemble cast such as Morgan Freeman and Michael Caine Cillian Murphy might be making a cameo
Matthew Modine Tom Conti 11-year-old actress Joey King Daniel Sunjata Diego Klattenhoff Christopher Judge "CSI: Miami" co-star Adam Rodriguez and Burn Gorman take on secondary roles. Rob Brown and Italian actor Massi Furlan have small roles in the film as well
Nolan called action on the DKR from a screenplay he wrote with bro Jonathan Nolan, from a story by Nolan and David S. Goyer.
The sequel is set to hit theaters on July 20th, 2012..
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