The Dark Knight Rises Bane

[Marx]

If Coleman Reese isn't dead in 60 minutes, I kick the **** out of a kitten.

Hey, Reese knows he was wrong. Bruce saved his ass...

But, maybe Bane should feel that only he himself is worthy of knowing such info and tries to kill anyone that does know; Reese, Fox, Pennyworth...

Reese is the only one who has publicly admitted to knowing. Bane needs to break the little wimp!

 

[raybia]

I still say let Bane have Colemon Reese!

Maybe this is how the movie opens. Reese comes home to a dark house to find Bane waiting. He asks him who Batman is. Reese gives a smart ass response. Bane tortures him and Reese relents. Bane thanks him and snaps his neck.

 

[Anchor_Content]

Hey, Reese knows he was wrong. Bruce saved his ass...

But, maybe Bane should feel that only he himself is worthy of knowing such info and tries to kill anyone that does know; Reese, Fox, Pennyworth...

THAT I can see happening. Maybe that's Bane's sense of honor speaking - "I alone can know the identity of the Bat." And that would be a great way to introduce Bane in the movie.

Why hasn't Nolan hired us as writers? Or at least as advisors?

 

[Marx]

Maybe this is how the movie opens. Reese comes home to a dark house to find Bane waiting. He asks him who Batman is. Reese gives a smart ass response. Bane tortures him and Reese relents. Bane thanks him and snaps his neck.

That works for me!

 

[DaveMoral]

Bane could probably still get to Scarecrow in some way. He might even be able to break him out of Arkham. If Crane is used in a limited, Hannibal Lecter-type informant role to Gordon it would make sense for Bane to go through the trouble of getting him and then killing him.

Using Scarecrow would only make sense if he's used as an informant on the League of Shadows. Which works of Bane is vying for leadership of the League of Shadows, trying to bring down Gotham like Ra's/Ducard wished when he died. His pursuit of Batman functions two-fold, vengeance for Ra's and that Batman needs to be eliminated in order to accomplish the mission.

 

[The Red Hood]

Does anyone else think it's awesome that Hardy essentially played Bane (well, a more realistic version of him) in Bronson? When you compare Bronson's life in prison to Bane's, it's creepy. I wonder if O'Neill and Dixon used Bronson as a basis for Bane?

At any rate, I'm thrilled about Bane being the villain, esp. as a "child of the 90s" comics who started reading Batman heavily when Batman 89 hit theaters.

 

[Blitzkrieg Bop]

Joker and Scarecrow are locked away in Arkham.

Says who?

 

[Frosty81]

Does anyone else think it's awesome that Hardy essentially played Bane (well, a more realistic version of him) in Bronson? When you compare Bronson's life in prison to Bane's, it's creepy. I wonder if O'Neill and Dixon used Bronson as a basis for Bane?

At any rate, I'm thrilled about Bane being the villain, esp. as a "child of the 90s" comics who started reading Batman heavily when Batman 89 hit theaters.

That's me exactly...Became a huge Batman fan after the 89 film hit and collected and read madly for the next five years until I started playing guitar. So, the last stories I read with Bane was the Knightsend/Quest and unfortunately let Schumacher's Batman & Robin taint my memory. Reading 'Bane Of The Demon' now...I had no idea how smart and calculating Bane is.

 

[Darkness Falls]

well joker was taken into police custordy
and scarecrow was left for the cops at the start of tdk

 

[Nave 'Torment']

Maybe he could break a couple bones instead and send him to a hospital for a several months. I haven't read many comics with Bane, but I would assume killing a nerdy dude with a bag on his head is a little below him.

Lock-Up, the prison-guard-turned-looney-tune in Arkham, stalked Crane for a while, driving him nuts. Think that'll be used here? I like the Over-The-Edge idea of having Crane commit something really nasty, or the point of having him killed. But those are just for shock value and it's cheap writing. So, nah, forget both.

Come on, it's Arkham. When did that place ever keep anyone locked up.

Since Batman got trapped in it? Oh wait, I got a better one - since they stopped showing it after Batman Begins.

It would really cheapen Arkham to have yet another jailbreak in a Batman film.

Sad but true.

I still say let Bane have Colemon Reese!

come on Reese is our Riddler isn't he? I thought the internet unanimously agreed that Mr.Reese (mysteries) is Eddie and that the poor sap who almost became Two-Face killer 1 was the Mad Hatter, and that fly-boy in Gotham Knight was Firefly and Lau was the Calculator and Bruce was the Man-Bat and...someone was the Creeper...and...that big brute of a Bhutanese prisoner was Ubu... anyway. I forgot, the internet made democracy obsolete. Sorry, my bad.

My point: yeah, feed Reese to the dogs! Oh and also have him be the unwilling aid to Batman/Catwoman and Falcone from Loeb's books.

 

[HighFivingMF]

come on Reese is our Riddler isn't he? I thought the internet unanimously agreed that Mr.Reese (mysteries) is Eddie and that the poor sap who almost became Two-Face killer 1 was the Mad Hatter, and that fly-boy in Gotham Knight was Firefly and Lau was the Calculator and Bruce was the Man-Bat and...someone was the Creeper...and...that big brute of a Bhutanese prisoner was Ubu... anyway. I forgot, the internet made democracy obsolete. Sorry, my bad.
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Don't forget about that old guy at the table when Joker made the pencil disappear. That's definitely Penguin!

 

[Blitzkrieg Bop]

well joker was taken into police custordy
and scarecrow was left for the cops at the start of tdk

I'll buy that for the Joker, but Scarecrow could still be out there. I'd like to think that there's just that one guy in Gotham, who's not really a major threat anymore, but more like an annoyance for Batman to deal with.

 

[Marx]

Crane deserves to be a lot more than an 'annoyance'. He had a full movie and a second movie cameo...that's enough.

 

[Blitzkrieg Bop]

Tell that to Lex Luthor.

 

[antsman41]

Don't forget about that old guy at the table when Joker made the pencil disappear. That's definitely Penguin!

no, the penguin is the guy with big nose and long black hair in Arkham that Batman looks at when running among the bats.

Where were you in 05, haha?

 

[Marx]

In all seriousness, I do wish we could have seen Nolan's version of Penguin. The character needs to some serious redemption after Burton's Batman Returns.

 

[Blitzkrieg Bop]

no, the penguin is the guy with big nose and long black hair in Arkham that Batman looks at when running among the bats.

Where were you in 05, haha?

That reminds me, how could Nolan not follow up with Mr. Freeze after he was clearly there in Arkham?

 

[jerkhero]

I hope The Dark Knight Rises is a terrible movie, so i don't feel so sad about the fact that we will never see Nolan's Penguin or The Riddler.

 

[Darkness Falls]

don't forget in begins batman runs past the joker standing in his arkham cell

 

[RustyCage]

I hope The Dark Knight Rises is a terrible movie, so i don't feel so sad about the fact that we will never see Nolan's Penguin or The Riddler.

That's one of the most insane suggestions I've ever heard. Why would you want any Batman film to be bad? Why not just hope for Nolan to come back with another idea for a film that includes those two?

 

[Secret Fawful]

Exactly. My butt might hurt over the fact Black Mask doesn't seem likely to be in the movie, but I'm still incredibly excited to see what Nolan is bringing to the plate.

 

[jerkhero]

I was just joking of course. And it doesn't matter what i want, this film will be awesome

 

[ad101867]

BTW, I think that's The Rock in the suit. I can tell by his Samoan tattoo.

We'll probably get a great version of Bane, but personally I might've cast Dwayne Johnson in the role. He's got major screen charisma, and I think he could be coached into producing a very convincing Bane performance.

. . . I would expect [Bane's mask] to be used the same way the Scarecrow's mask was used, and the same way Batman's mask is used: intelligently. He'll wear it when it makes sense, and won't wear it when it doesn't.

I'd love to see Batman initially get "beaten" (not with a broken back though) by Bane, and then turn around and infiltrate the criminal underworld in his other alter-ego: Matches Malone. This could serve as a tool he uses to pursue and take down Bane with a different approach after getting trounced in his first attempt.

I don't get why Bane NEEDS the Venom.....Seriously theres nothing wrong with making him just a really bad ass dude who can kick some serious ass and have him be pretty big at the same time. If Batman/Bruce Wayne can obtain skills to kick anyones ass than why can't Bane?

Yeah, that could be fine. For a one-off movie version, I imagine Bane as the counter-Batman: what Bruce could've become if he'd gone criminal instead of vigilante. I wish a bigger actor had been cast, but they could simply alter the character a bit so that he's a great fighter without being huge. That version of Bane could still accomplish what the comicbook Bane does. He could be portrayed as a driven man who sort of out-Bruces Bruce Wayne.

 

[Octoberist]

But I want Bane to do things that are questionable strong in the film, you know? I don't want him just to be a strong dude because there's a lot of strong dudes out there.

 

[Parquagh]

I'm also hoping he'll incoporate elements of "Venom" in here. Bruce failing in rescuing a child and him using drugs to boost his power.

That would be really interesting; Batman depressed because of Rachel and then the kid and being dependent on Venom would make him physically and mentally vulnerable, during the withdrawal Bane takes advantage of that situation and leaves him severly injured. Bruce recovers from both situations and comes back to defeat Bane and make sure Venom is destroyed.

I doubt Batman's back will be broken because of 'the realism', but that element could be incorporated like Bane's Signature, eg. Coleman Reese or others guys killed after having their backs broken...