All right, this may seem like going out on a limb but just hear me out and consider what I'm saying.
Me and a good friend have been following news in the Batman department since BB, and there seem to be some major inconsistencies with how the news is coming out that makes me think that little errors like these are what the studio WANTS to happen.
Here is what we were discussing and this is really the only way I can break it down. If you don't like conspiracy theories, then you can flame me afterwards. Trust me though, I'm not a nut.
WHO -
Right now the only new additions to the cast that we're aware of are Tom Hardy and Anne Hathaway as Bane and Catwoman respectively. There has been no official confirmation regarding others, such as Marion Cotillard or Joseph Gordon Levitt.
On both fronts, these actors have been "in talks" for this motion picture for months and their names have been associated with the film for longer than that. Some people on these forums say because these actors have not denied being "in talks," that they likely are.
However, I say that means nothing. Who would deny being "in talks" for one of the biggest motion picture events of the decade? They're probably getting phone calls from people for even having their name attached to the movie.
On top of that, we also had the entire Robin Williams/Hugo Strange debacle.
Think about it for a second...who would deny to anyone that they're in talks to be in a Batman movie? Even if they already know they're not going to be in the movie, they can still further their careers from the situation. This is how negotiations work, and Hollywood agents are masters of politically arranging their clients in such a manner. It's how their system works.
WHERE
This the biggest indicator to me that we have a real problem on our hands in regards to factual data.
With The Dark Knight, the film shot on location in Chicago and Hong Kong, as well as in the Cardington hangars. To film in a city like Chicago requires months of negotiations with the city government, chamber of commerce, agencies, contractors, etc. It's no small feat. Maybe if you're an indie film maker, but if you're shutting streets down and renting out (or blowing up) buildings, that's a different matter. It takes a lot of time.
It's an even larger feat to do something like this overseas. Whole scenes of The Dark Knight were removed from the script due to lighting issues in Hong Kong, and the tricky relations with the Chinese government eventually led to the movie not even being released in China.
Yet with The Dark Knight Rises, the movie will be shooting in New York, Los Angeles, the UK Hangars, Pittsburgh, Romania and India. That's THIS week, might I add. Before, we also had Chicago, New Orleans, Philadelphia and Detroit.
As it stands now, this film will be shooting in four countries and three American cities. That's insane. The negotiations alone would be enough to drive Nolan himself mad.
Basically, what I'm getting at is that all of this screams of misinformation tactics. What I'm wondering is if today's little incident was more than just a troll, but just another part of a major campaign to keep every aspect of this movie (location, characters, casting, story, etc.) as secret as possible.
If the movie is set to start shooting in May, and we have no clue where the movie is filming, then there's no way we can go and take on-set photos. If we don't know the fake title of the movie, we won't know where it is. If it has multiple fake titles, that makes it nearly impossible to guess.
The other thing to consider is that so many websites are trying to profit off of this movie that not only are they reporting anything and everything without verification, but some of them are starting to flat out make it up.
I hate to come off as a conspiracy theorist, but I've been suspicious about a lot of the news coming out since probably October. From where I'm sitting, there is so much BS floating around right now that it's quite possibly deliberate. WB has taken the security of this film to a whole new level; instead of keeping everything on lockdown (which you know they are) they're also flooding the news market with lies.
If you don't believe me, consider this:
If there have been two different fake scripts, if the real one were to leak we wouldn't believe it.
If there are fake press releases, we'll second-guess when a real one comes out.
If there are fifteen different possible shooting locations, we won't know which ones are the right ones.
I think it's possible that the "viral marketing" campaign for The Dark Knight Rises has already started. They're flooding the market with ********.
Either that, or the media is ruining it themselves and the studio is just sitting back and laughing.
What happened today though wasn't anything new. We're getting crap like this every week. If it's not a fake script, it's a new casting rumor. If it's not a casting rumor, it's a new confirmation. If it's not a confirmation, it's a new villain. If it's not a new villain, it's a fake press release. If not that, a fake interview.
I'm getting sick of this crap.
I've braced myself for the flames. Send them onward.
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. All this about Talia, the Falcone Family, Strange, Black Mask, Sionis, fake press releases, and the countless number of speculated shooting locations is nauseating. I really hope WB formally clarifies all of this SOON. 
