There’s nothing particularly flashy. There’s no exploding hospital or a villainous voice-over. The new teaser trailer for The Dark Knight Rises is pleasing nonetheless.
It’s the tone. That wonderfully serious, realistic tone that Christopher Nolan has brought to his magnificent Batman films. And while we are half-served clips from the first two movies, we get enough to get the blood pumping for the final film in Nolan’s Batman trilogy. This series of films is just about the only superhero franchise that feels sincerely like a planned franchise (whether it originally was or not).
Warner Bros. will continue making superhero films if they can ring in the excitement and dollars that Batman Begins and The Dark Knight have netted. It would serve many studios well to use these films as an example of how to adapt a superhero property. I don’t mean that the films need to be dark and gritty (two adjectives that have cinematically lost any meaning). But they need to respect the source material and understand the art of adaptation. I think these are the factors employed by Nolan and company in bringing Batman back to the big screen.
The Dark Knight Rises is scheduled for release on July 20, 2012 (one week after Comic Con 2012!).
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