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Film News: Warner Bros. Launches ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ Viral Marketing, Reveals Tom Hardy as Bane
CHICAGO – Warner Bros. on Friday launched the official Web site for “The Dark Knight Rises” at http://thedarkknightrises.warnerbros.com with an all-black screen and mysterious, tribal-like chanting. That launch ignited an online fan frenzy that marks the official beginning to the film’s new viral marketing campaign.
Upon analyzing the official Web site’s sound spectrogram, we’ve discovered the words “The Fire Rises”! The Web site http://www.thefirerises.com was registered eight days ago by DNStination and MarkMonitor Brand Protection.
A search on Twitter shows fanboys asking questions galore about these new fire-rising words. An image link to another new Web site, http://www.thedarkknightrises.com/image.html, has appeared on Twitter at https://twitter.com/#!/thefirerises.
To help reveal a new image, fans have gone to that image link and tweeted the following:
#TheFireRises http://www.thedarkknightrises.com/image.html
And bam! The collective work of Batman fans has yielded a big reward on TheDarkKnightRises.com: Bane! Bane is one of Batman’s more physically and intellectually powerful foes. Below is our first official look at Tom Hardy as Bane.
Image credit: TheDarkKnightRises.com
Want to see big Bane? Click the official Bane image above for a high-res version or click here! A recent photo of Tom Hardy with producer, director and writer Martin J. Thomas can be found below.
Image credit: IMDb
From what we saw with “The Dark Knight” prior to the film’s release, we can expect another exhaustive bout of enigmatic viral marketing from “The Dark Knight Rises”. Shrouded in the dark shadows of nothingness with this mysterious audio, that campaign begins today. Stay tuned for what’s certainly going to be another epic viral marketing ride!
“The Dark Knight Rises” will again star Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne, Gary Oldman as Jim Gordon, Morgan Freeman as Lucius Fox and Michael Caine as Alfred. The film also stars Tom Hardy, Anne Hathaway, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard, Juno Temple, Josh Pence, Diego Klattenhoff and Alon Aboutboul. Nestor Carbonell and Daniel Sunjata are currently rumored to be involved.
The film, which is again directed by Christopher Nolan, is scheduled for release on July 20, 2012. “The Dark Knight Rises” is written by David S. Goyer (story), Bob Kane (characters), Christopher Nolan (screenplay), Christopher Nolan (story) and Jonathan Nolan (screenplay) with original music from Hans Zimmer and cinematography by Wally Pfister.
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By ADAM FENDELMAN |
I just hope that this
I just hope that this doesn’t succumb to the same temptation that ruined Spiderman 3; trying to do too many things with too many characters¬, resulting in an incoherent mess. But I have a lot more faith in the judgment and film making skills of Chris Nolan than I’ve ever had in Sam Rammi, so I feel fairly confident that he can pull it off.