So the dust of casting rumours has settled and now the facts can be revealed. Anne Hathaway is playing Selina Kyle and Tom Hardy is playing Bane in the third and final Batman film from Christopher Nolan, entitled The Dark Knight Rises. Both are interesting choices.
Hathaway has shown more light hearted humour in her roles rather than the darkness that the former prostitute and inconsistent flame of Bruce Wayne requires, but we don’t know what Nolan’s version of the femme feline fatale will be. The press release from Warner Bros. notes that she’s playing Selina Kyle, not Catwoman, so she may not leather up and grab her whip, but Aaron Eckhart was only ever credited as Harvey Dent, not Two Face in 2008’s The Dark Knight, so we could be in for a nice surprise when TDKR opens on July next year.
Tom Hardy starred in Nolan’s Inception (and as the bad Picard clone in Star Trek: Nemesis) and bulked up considerably for crime drama Bronson, so playing Bane is a good choice. Everyone expected Hardy to play doctor Hugo Strange, not Bane though, but I am curious to see what they do with the character who broke Batman’s back in the awesome KnightFall saga in the early ’90s. Bane is a master strategist and the most recent comics supervillain to show up in these films and is a pivotal one in Batman’s history, and it’ll be good for the Dark Knight to have a bad guy to match his strength and dedication on screen. More than just a forgotten character from the ’90s period, Bane has shown up as a multi-faceted character in Secret Six, showing honour and surprising concern for his fellow crims.
Being as this is the final film in this trilogy, it’ll be interesting to see Batman’s arc. Things left off in the last film with Batman taking the fall for Dent’s death and being labelled a rebel. Will Bruce now retire and marry Selina? Will Batman have his back broken by Bane? Or will Bane even replace Batman as Gotham’s law enforcer?
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comicbookjesus 
This isn’t the final film from Christopher Nolan, he’s directing the reboot. This is the last film in the dark knight trilogy, but Nolan is doing the Batman movies that tie into the Justice League movie.
Yep, you’re right. Initially Bale, Caine and Nolan all said this was the last one but now it looks like Nolan is helping produce the Superman reboot and the Batman one, but won’t direct either. A JLA film would be awesome, but Warner Bros. seem to change their mind about their strategy a lot.
I dont think that catwoman ad batmn are going to get together. But i do think it possibletht bruce wayne may quit being batman for a while which is why i the teaser trailer gordan says some thing like the batman must return. I dont know if bane is going to break the bat,s back like he did in the comics.And i seriously doubt that Nolan is going to make his catwoman the sexy more seductive catwoman she looks more like the original. As for bane he looks like a henchmen who is trying to fill jokers shoes with muscles. This movie looks like itll be a PHENOMINAL film as all of Nolans bat films are. P.S whats this bat reboot everybody is talking of
Yeah, DKR is set 8 years after the last film, which is an interesting choice. There will apparently be yet another Batman reboot after this film to tie into the Justice League film, whenever that’s coming.