The Dark Knight Rises Preview Ideas

[AnorexicBatman]

Remember that cool 6 minute preview we got of the Dark Knight with IMAX screenings of I Am Legend? Well this thread is mainly for brainstorming a similar preview that may or may not be the first 6 minutes of the film as was the case with TDK.

This is also a poor excuse by me to justify Richard Grayson/Nightwing's (NOT ROBIN!) existence in the Nolanverse

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The clip begins with a bank heist similar to the one shown in TDK, except it's night time. There are about 6 thugs wearing balaclavas and armed with Uzi's.

As they go about their business, all of a sudden, the lights go out. Obviously, the thugs are startled and take out their flashlights. Some swears, others freak out and exclaim that the "BAT" is here and going to kill them (The end of TDK shows Batman as a killer in the eyes of everyone)
They hear something crash and begin to shoot in the general direction.
All goes quiet after a while. One thug slowly looks around and out of nowhere, in front of him a mask with completely white eyes appaers before him exclaiming in a rather grim voice, "BOO!" The thuig is startled but before he can do anything, a battle staff hits him on the side of the head knocking huim out. The other thugs start to swear and scream as they shoot franticly waving their flashlights trying to find the assailnt.

As chaos ensues, littlle by little it is revealed that the attaker is not Batman but something else. The suit is capeless, lightly armoured (TDK style), flexible and covers completely from head to toe. Most imporatnt of all, the syomol of his chest is a dark blue raven and not a bat. The fight ends, the thugs stop screaming, the flashilights go off and all is eerily silent except for someone's heavy breathing.

The lights come on and one of the clerks is shocked to see the assailant full view. He seems young but powerful. As he turns to face her, she is notices two clean bullet holes in his chest, blood pouring out.
The assainlt lifts his left arm up (shaking slightly) and shoots what looks like a grappling hook and dissappaers through the hole in the glass canopy (the crash)

Screen fades....

Gordon: So your sending little kids into the battlefield now?

Batman: It wasn't my choice. I created him... I wanted to inspire people but not like this...

 

[BatJeff7786]

Eh....nah. Another bank heist would have me going "Haven't we seen this before?"

 

[Deadshot59]

"The clip begins with a bank heist..."



I stopped reading there.

 

[Byron Long]

Another bank heist?
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[gwynplaine]

Nightwing ?

 

[Goodfellas]

BankHeist?

A little redundant dont you think????

 

[elgato]

a cat burglary sceeneee!!!

 

[spideyman101]

In Batman Begins we got an intro from the past.
In The Dark Knight we got an intro from the present.
In Batman 3 I think it'd be interesting to see something from the future. (Mission: Impossible III style).

Have Harvey Bullock brutally interrogating an injured Batman inside the interrogation room. The camera views the backside of Batman as Bullock rips the mask off. We then view Bullock's clinched fist. Then for a total of 1 second we see a backside view of Batman's head as Bullock lays a punch to him, knocking him out of the chair. We go to current events...

... near the middle of the film we see this scene carried out. When Bullock removes the mask we see Edward Nashton instead! (Batman has finally captured The Riddler and used him as an impostor!). Bullock then clinches his fist, then punches Nashton out of the chair. In the intro it makes Bullock look like he's just blindly mad at Batman... then in the full scene it shows him being mad, yes, at Batman, but not directly. He's made at Nashton as well. Nashton is then imprisoned and then we go to Joker's storyline (played by Johnny Depp), who has recently escaped Arkham, by the help of a group of fans named "Jokerz" (similar to the Batmen in TDK). Joker now continues to carry out his plan of corrupting Gotham's 3 Knights (one of them already corrupted and dead: Harvey Dent). Joker now focuses on Gordon. By this point Batman has a new batmobile (a sleeker version of the Tumbler). In a chase scene he chases Joker who is in a hijacked school bus. Gordon, in a cop car, follows. Joker jumps over a drawl bridge, and crashes the bus. Batman gets out of the new Tumbler as Gordon gets out of the cop car, gun drown. Joker gets out cackling, giving a speech on how he's gonna corrupt Gordon. Gordon looks at the bus and notices HIS son screaming for help! Joker then pulls out a detonator. Gordon, clearly on the verge of desperation and insanity, while crying, points the gun at Joker and yells curses at the top of his lungs at Joker. "You're not helping anything loony." Joker tells him in a calm voice. Joker then demands he drop the gun. Gordon falls to his knees, drops the guns and begs before The Joker for him to not blow up his son. "This may be your lucky day, Commissioner... sadly, I am not feeling quite so generous today." He then presses the button and the bus blows up. (A piece of Hans Zimmer's sad music takes over... something we haven't heard much in the Batman films). Joker cards fly everywhere in a chaotic inferno. Gordon picks up his gun and aims it at Joker screaming, out of breath. Batman steps in and as Gordon pulls the trigger, Batman knocks Gordon's hand causing him to shoot to the side. In blind rage Gordon punches Batman in the face and begins to march towards Joker with his gun in his hand (reflecting Joker's march in the middle of the street towards Batman in TDK). Joker suddenly attacks Gordon, knocking his gun out of his hand and both Joker and Gordon get a chance for some hand-to-hand combat which is cut short with Joker pulling out a knife on Gordon, holding it to his throat. Joker points out that Gordon's rage his blinded him to where he cannot even defend his self. Just then Batman shoots one of his arm blades at Joker, cutting the arm with the knife in it. Batman drags Gordon away. Joker escapes. The cops show up, Batman at the scene. The cops draw their guns on him. Batman then takes out his grappling gun and shoots it to the nearest rooftop and soars away.

Wow, sorry for going on that rant... :P

 

[AnorexicBatman]

My thanks goes out to spideyman101 for making a decent contribution to this thread.
I like your concept (Very Killing Joke) but involving Gordon's son again would be redundant

To the others; the Bank heist itself is not important. What's important is what happens there. It could be a warehouse for all I care. Don't be all high and mighty just because I said bank heist and not something else. Also, Nightwing gets shot but escapes, it's realistic, he just doesn't defeat them and magically escape. Would it comfort you if I told you he ends up lying on he roof bleeding and Batman saves him

 

[Deadshot59]

I like your concept (Very Killing Joke) but involving Gordon's son again would be redundant

Haha, didn't you just say you wanted ANOTHER bank heist?

 

[spideyman101]

Personally I was just trying to think of a way Joker could almost drive Gordon insane... killing his son... later in my movie Joker shoots Barbara in the head, the Gordon shoots Joker in the leg, then the shoulder. Batman grabs Joker and tosses him off the skyscraper (but there's another ledge below). Batman repeats the process promising to throw farther this time...

So anyway sorry for the little redundancy in my post. ;P

Ok, enough of my ideas now, this is your thread...

 

[sabetoonth]

first its a south american jungle, birds eye view then switch to the same veiw o gotham, than a shot of santa prisca prison, than wayne manor, the inside of a cell, the batcave, a big guy in whatever they give southamerican prisoners to wear, than a glass cabinet and inside a suit, a shot of the prisoner putting on a mask its got a stylized skull on its face, tha a zoom in on the bat cowl, maybe a new more monsterish face

 

[Lauryn2000]

No Robin....LOLOLOLOLOL

 

[Byron Long]

No Robin....LOLOLOLOLOL

 

[ThePoisonPuppet]

Heres just an idea I had....

A view of Arkham Asylum on a stormy night. We zoom in on a door, and we hear the Joker say "I knooow something yooou doooon't" In a whiney sing-songy voice (I think you all know what I mean).

We see Edward Nashton, "Tell me what happened that night"

Back to the Joker: "Well Ed you gotta promise me something, promise me it won't be put to waste, make sure THEY know." *Joker points to Gotham Skyline out the window*

Nashton: "Deal."



Of course what The Joker knows, and the Riddler wants is what really happened with Harvey Dent.

 

[ronny]

I think that if they have a prologue of sorts it should delve into Riddler's background. He's not The Joker, he has a past and it's something he struggles with.
But it shouldn't be conventionally handled, there should be something twisted and out of sync with the whole affair.
Kind of like we're getting inside his mind and can see how diseased his though process is.
It should deal with his parents arguing and his beginings as a conman.
Like, you'd hear his mother say "He's just sensitive is all" whilst seeing him break into an old womans house and steal some money.
Something very dreamy and warped.

 

[gwynplaine]

The opening credit sequence of Seven, would have worked really well for a riddler prologue

 

[Ronny Shade]

It's silly to think about what the trailer's going to be before you decide the plot of the film.