Tom Hardy as Bane in "The Dark Knight Rises" (Warner Bros.)
In a stroke of viral marketing brilliance, Christopher Nolan gave his intrepid fans on Twitter a sneak preview of “The Dark Knight Rises“: the first photo of Tom Hardy as Bane in the next Batman film.
As fans discovered, tweeting “#thefirerises” helps fill in the hidden Tom Hardy image on “The Dark Knight Rises” website, which launched Friday. Holy Twitter, Batman! What a way for Nolan to mark the first week of filming.
Bane, the chemically created brute who first appeared in the comics in 1993, is a “younger” villain for Nolan’s Batman mega-franchise, which has most prominently featured the Joker (who first appeared in 1940) , Two-Face (1942), Ra’s Al-Ghul (1971) and the Scarecrow (1941). But don’t let Bane’s relative newness fool you; the muscular juggernaut once broke Batman’s back in the comics.
– Noelene Clark
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Already infinitely cooler than the previous movie incarnation, though it would have been a pretty big challenge to make him look worse than before.
I can't wait for July 20th, 2012!! Tom Hardy is going to do a great job in this!!
so legit.
Viral marketing brilliance?
C'mon. Be real. It's a backlit shot of some muscles and a gimp mask.
Chris, you're going to have to do better than that to convince us Bane is not going to be laughable…
@ proust di vetre… hey maybe i can broke your back maybe you laugh about it…
such a badass!!!!!…perfect.man.for.the.job!
Bane? Really? Geesh.
for the record ud b surprised in the actual comic bane unlike the older batman film with bane which made bane out 2 b unintelligent n a lacky hes actually quite intelligent u have 2 read the comics story 2 understand that bane was never one to play with and hes broken batmans back before so this is actually a move up if u ask me
I LOVE TOM HARDY!!!!