is set eight years after The Dark Knight, the director noted in a recent
interview with Empire.
“It’s really all about finishing Batman and Bruce Wayne’s
story,” Nolan explained. “We left him in a very precarious place. Perhaps
surprisingly for some people, our story picks up quite a bit later, eight years
after The Dark Knight. So he’s an older Bruce Wayne; he’s not in a great state.”
Of the film’s primary villain, the brutish and calculating
Bane, Nolan added that he wanted to put The Caped Crusader to the ultimate test
in the conclusion to his trilogy.
“With Bane, we’re looking to give Batman a challenge he
hasn’t had before,” Nolan said. “With our choice of villain and with our choice
of story we’re testing Batman both physically as well as mentally.”
How physically? Actor Tom Hardy—who plays the baddie who
infamously broke Batman’s back in the comics—went into sickening detail about
Bane’s fighting technique.
“It’s about carnage,” Hardy said. “The style is
heavy-handed, heavy-footed, it’s nasty. Anything from small-joint manipulation
to crushing skulls, crushing rib cages, stamping on shins and knees and necks
and collarbones and snapping heads off and tearing his fists through chests,
ripping out spinal columns. He is a terrorist in mentality as well as brutal
action.”
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