The Dark Knight Rises Joseph Gordon-Levitt as John Blake

[Goku Goes Crazy]

Bane is leading the task force. Gordon asks Blake to keep an eye out on Bane.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

I'm just happy that JGL is going to be in this film. He's a fine actor.

 

[Wolvieboy17]

Bane is leading the task force. Gordon asks Blake to keep an eye out on Bane.

A taskforce within a taskforce?

 

[Goku Goes Crazy]

A taskforce within a taskforce?

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[Rodrigo90]

A beatcop trying to put a leash on big Bane? Phew!

 

[childeroland]

From Badass Digest:

Blake…my sources told me he would be someone sowing chaos in Gotham at the start of the film. Is my source wrong or is the description presented misleading?

Could he be a harbinger for Bane, someone softening up the city before Bane attempts to take it over?

 

[Boom]

Or Devin's source was wrong. A Gotham City beat cop "sowing chaos" in Gotham City?

Lollerskatez.

 

[kvz5]

I'd go with the former that his source is wrong.

 

[Infinity9999x]

Or Devin's source was wrong. A Gotham City beat cop "sowing chaos" in Gotham City?

Lollerskatez.

It's not that out there. Say that Bane is involved with/leading the LOS (A fairly big speculative point at the moment, but not too out there given what we know). Then JGL could be a LOS member working for Bane that was hired to infiltrate the Gotham Police Department. Gain Gordon's trust, and get put into a position to either make things harder on Batman or make it easier for Bane to seize control.

 

[Wolvieboy17]

Unless his idea of sewing chaos is keeping Batman so preoccupied with avoiding arrest that crime has risen.

 

[Wolvieboy17]

It's not that out there. Say that Bane is involved with/leading the LOS (A fairly big speculative point at the moment, but not too out there given what we know). Then JGL could be a LOS member working for Bane that was hired to infiltrate the Gotham Police Department. Gain Gordon's trust, and get put into a position to either make things harder on Batman or make it easier for Bane to seize control.

There are so many stretches in that theory it could be a yoga position.

 

[Yurka]

A taskforce within a taskforce?

http://inception.davepedu.com/

 

[craigdbfan]

Or Devin's source was wrong. A Gotham City beat cop "sowing chaos" in Gotham City?

Lollerskatez.

Seriously.

If anything that theory sounds like the complete polar opposite. He's working directly under Gordon in a seemingly classified mission in guise of a beat cop.

Gordon would have learned from TDK to be far more vigilante on who he keeps close by his side. His family was held hostage and son almost killed because he decided to work with rats like Ramierz and Wartz.

My money is that JGL is actually a really good cop and not only hand picked by Gordon but by Batman as well. This for me makes much more sense.

 

[Boom]

It's not that out there. Say that Bane is involved with/leading the LOS (A fairly big speculative point at the moment, but not too out there given what we know). Then JGL could be a LOS member working for Bane that was hired to infiltrate the Gotham Police Department. Gain Gordon's trust, and get put into a position to either make things harder on Batman or make it easier for Bane to seize control.

Except, according to Devin's source, JGL's character's "chaos sowing" would take place at the beginning of the film.

 

[Infinity9999x]

There are so many stretches in that theory it could be a yoga position.

Well no duh, nearly everything we're speculating on is a stretch, because we have extremely minimal information on the subject. Of course, with my idea, you don't have to have Bane involved with the LOS. JGL could simply be a person working for Bane with the same objective. I was merely tying together the few strings of information we have. Connecting Bane with the LOS seems logical, given that we know Ra's backstory is included for some reason. Though it could just as easily be connected to a completely different part of the story and Bane could be his own entity. Who knows.

However, going off what Boom said, it does seem that guy's info is inaccurate. It doesn't seem like we would see JGL's character reaping too much havoc right away, since in my scenario he would have be very discreet about what he does.

Unless the opening scene is the JGL taskforce chasing down Bats and JGL is blatantly destroying city property in his chase of Batman ala Sam Jackson and The Rock in The Other Guys.

 

[Wolvieboy17]

Okay, since we're all going with crazy, speculative plot theories, here's a real smackerooney for you.

It's been said by Bale and I believe Nolan commented too, that Robin would never appear in these films. So what if they skipped Robin and went straight to Nightwing, or at least building up any character as a young protege. If Blake is truly the one good cop that Gordon trusts, that could give him license to work closely with Batman, perhaps become a young brother type figure? Founded in no evidence, just throwing things out there.

 

[Tacit Ronin]

Okay, since we're all going with crazy, speculative plot theories, here's a real smackerooney for you.

It's been said by Bale and I believe Nolan commented too, that Robin would never appear in these films. So what if they skipped Robin and went straight to Nightwing, or at least building up any character as a young protege. If Blake is truly the one good cop that Gordon trusts, that could give him license to work closely with Batman, perhaps become a young brother type figure? Founded in no evidence, just throwing things out there.

Infinity is doing yoga with wires aiding him. You are just doing plain Yoga.

 

[Infinity9999x]

Okay, since we're all going with crazy, speculative plot theories, here's a real smackerooney for you.

It's been said by Bale and I believe Nolan commented too, that Robin would never appear in these films. So what if they skipped Robin and went straight to Nightwing, or at least building up any character as a young protege. If Blake is truly the one good cop that Gordon trusts, that could give him license to work closely with Batman, perhaps become a young brother type figure? Founded in no evidence, just throwing things out there.

The theory I posted wasn't founded without evidence. We know that there is going to be a flashback with Ra's in the movie. It stands to reason that the flashback will involve the League of Shadows, considering it's hard to see a reason why otherwise.

If the LOS is included in a movie, it also stands to reason that it's connected to one of the characters in it. Bane would be a logical choice.

Going off that, if we want to assume JGL's character is going to be a villain, the most likely scenario would be him working for Bane to make things harder on Bats, thus making Bane's job of catching him easier.

It's like Nuffsaid umm...said. There was a basis for my theory. I don't think it's likely, because at this point, I wouldn't try to bet what Nolan was going to do with his plot if my life depended on it. But it's certainly not a wild guess.

 

[Scorcher7]

Some of you guys are so funny. Nobody on this board know anymore about this movie than the poster above and below them. Yet some of you shoot down some theories or ideas (probably cause you don't like them) like you wrote the script with Nolan. All we know is that JGL is playing a beat cop working under Gordon. Yeah he could be a good guy and an ally for Gordon and Batman. Sound kind of like Stephens from TDK though doesn't it? Why is it a stretch that this Blake character has ulterior motives? As we've seen in both movies. There is a lot of corruption in the GCPD.

 

[Wolvieboy17]

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Re: Joseph Gordon-Levitt as John Blake
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Originally Posted by Wolvieboy17
Okay, since we're all going with crazy, speculative plot theories, here's a real smackerooney for you.

It's been said by Bale and I believe Nolan commented too, that Robin would never appear in these films. So what if they skipped Robin and went straight to Nightwing, or at least building up any character as a young protege. If Blake is truly the one good cop that Gordon trusts, that could give him license to work closely with Batman, perhaps become a young brother type figure? Founded in no evidence, just throwing things out there.

Infinity is doing yoga with wires aiding him. You are just doing plain Yoga.

Screw yoga, that was spoonbending. I wasn't trying to predict what will happen, i'm just shooting the ****. More of a 'what would you think if xxxx happened?'. To be honest, I don't even care who is what, I know Nolan will make a good film, so why bother getting emotionally invested in the ins and outs at all? It's more fun to just hypothesise what we'd want to see in a Batman film, something fans have been doing for a long time. It's not going to change any time soon.

 

[Rodrigo90]

Well if Blake does have an ulterior motive and connection with TLOS or Bane,it will seem like Jonathan Crane rehash. Blake being the lackey,like Crane was.

 

[Trooper]

 

[HighFivingMF]

Treat Williams was going to play Joe Brady!

 

[TLBorlando]

I don't know if this has been posted yet. Here you go!

UPDATED: Badass Digest claims their sources had previously informed them that Gordon-Levitt's character is "someone sowing chaos in Gotham at the start of the film." Is that who Blake is? If so, he sounds something like Detective Max Cort, a rogue cop on Jim Gordon's Batman-hunting GCPD task force who becomes a masked vigilante himself in the "Prey" storyline by Doug Moench.

This was posted at the bottom of the IGN article. http://movies.ign.com/articles/116/1162748p1.html


HMMMM, could it be true? He might just be creating chaos to catch The Batman.

 

[Victarion]

Prey is back hahahahaha augh yea folks.