The Dark Knight Rises#Critical response

Bane, a former member of the League of Shadows, leads an attack on a CIA plane over Uzbekistan to abduct nuclear physicist Dr. Leonid Pavel and fake Pavel's death in the crash. Meanwhile, eight years after the death of Gotham City District Attorney Harvey Dent and the arrest of the Joker,{{efn|As depicted in The Dark Knight (2008)}} organized crime has been eradicated in Gotham by the Dent Act, legislation that gives expanded powers to the police. Police commissioner James Gordon has kept Dent's killing spree a secret and allowed the blame for his crimes to fall on Batman. Bruce Wayne, still mourning the death of Rachel Dawes, has become a recluse, and Wayne Enterprises has stagnated.

Bane conspires to help Wayne Enterprises board member John Daggett take over the company, and they begin by trying to buy Bruce's fingerprints. Burglar Selina "Catwoman" Kyle steals Bruce's prints from Wayne Manor for Daggett, but he double-crosses her, and she alerts the police, who pursue Bane and Daggett's henchmen into the sewers while Catwoman flees. The henchmen capture Gordon and take him to Bane, but he escapes and is found by Gotham City police officer John Blake, an orphan who has deduced Bruce's secret identity and persuades him to resume his vigilantism. Bane attacks the Gotham Stock Exchange and uses Bruce's fingerprints to verify a series of fraudulent transactions, leaving Bruce ousted from his company and bankrupt. Batman resurfaces to pursue Bane's henchmen. Fearing Bruce will get himself killed fighting Bane, his butler, Alfred Pennyworth, resigns in the hope of saving him after admitting to burning a letter that Rachel left for him saying she was going to marry Dent. Bane expands his operations and kills Daggett while Bruce and Wayne Enterprises' new CEO, Miranda Tate, become lovers.

Catwoman agrees to take Batman to Bane but instead leads him into a trap under Wayne Tower. Bane gloats that he intends to fulfill Ra's al Ghul's mission to destroy Gotham City before he brutally cripples Batman in combat. He then takes Bruce to an ancient underground prison in the Middle East, where Bruce learns that Ra's al Ghul's child was born and raised in the prison but had a protector that aided the child in escaping, thought to be impossible. Back in Gotham, Bane detonates explosives to trap the police forces in the sewers, destroys all but one bridge surrounding the city, kills Gotham mayor Anthony Garcia at the Gotham City stadium, and forces Pavel to convert the fusion reactor core owned by Wayne Enterprises into a decaying neutron bomb before publicly killing him as well. He exposes Dent's crimes to the city and releases the prisoners of Blackgate Penitentiary, taking over the city, and has Gotham's elite exiled and killed in proletarian kangaroo courts presided over by Jonathan Crane.{{efn|Crane returns from Batman Begins (2005) and The Dark Knight (2008).}}

Five months later, Bruce escapes captivity and returns to Gotham. As Batman, he frees the police, and together, they clash with Bane's army in the streets. During the battle, Batman overpowers Bane, but Tate stabs Batman in the abdomen, revealing herself as Ra's al Ghul's daughter Talia al Ghul. Talia also reveals that Bane was her protector in the pit before activating the bomb's detonator, but it fails due to Gordon blocking the signal, so Talia leaves to find the bomb while entrusting Bane to finish off Batman. However, Catwoman returns, killing Bane and helping Batman pursue Talia, hoping to return the bomb to the reactor chamber where it can be stabilized. Talia's truck crashes, but she remotely floods and destroys the reactor chamber before dying. With no way to stop the detonation, Batman, after revealing his identity to Gordon, uses his aerial craft, the Bat, to haul the bomb far over the bay, where it safely explodes.

In the aftermath, Batman is presumed dead and honored as a hero. Since Bruce is also presumed dead separately, Wayne Manor becomes an orphanage, and Bruce's estate is left to Alfred. Gordon finds the Bat-Signal repaired, while Lucius Fox discovers that Bruce had fixed the Bat's malfunctioning auto-pilot. In Florence, Alfred discovers that Bruce is alive and in a relationship with Selina, and they silently acknowledge each other before parting ways. Blake, whose legal first name is revealed as Robin, resigns from the GCPD and receives a package leading him to the Batcave.

• Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne / Batman:
  A billionaire socialite who dedicates himself to protecting Gotham City from its criminal underworld, as a feared vigilante. Nolan has stated that, due to the eight-year gap between The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises, "he's an older Bruce Wayne; he's not in a great state." Bale employed a martial arts discipline called the Keysi Fighting Method, now modified for Wayne's current state and Bane's style. Bale has stated that The Dark Knight Rises would be his final Batman film. Bale acknowledged that Batman is "not a healthy individual, this is somebody that is doing good, but he's right on the verge of doing bad". Bale clarifies that "He doesn't want to forget [his parents' deaths]. He wants to maintain that anger he felt at that injustice". Bale felt bittersweet about leaving the franchise, saying that it was like "saying goodbye to an old friend."
• Michael Caine as Alfred Pennyworth:
  Bruce's trusted butler and confidant, who acts as a father figure to Wayne but is unable to accept Wayne's desire to revive his Batman persona, even resigning from his position to impress the seriousness of his position upon him. Christopher Nolan emphasized the emotional bond between Pennyworth and Wayne, stressing its importance in the previous films and predicting that the relationship will be strained as it never has before.
• Gary Oldman as James Gordon:
  The Commissioner of the Gotham City Police Department, and one of the city's few honest police officers. Oldman described the character's work in cleaning up Gotham City as having left him world-weary and slightly bored, likening Gordon to a soldier who leaps at the chance to be on the front lines. His life has taken a turn for the worse since The Dark Knight; his wife has left him and taken their children, and the mayor is planning to dismiss him from his job. Gordon feels guilty over his role in covering up Harvey Dent's crimes and is prepared to resign from his position as Commissioner over it, but then senses that Gotham is about to come under threat.
• Anne Hathaway as Selina Kyle / Catwoman:
  A professional cat burglar, grifter, and femme fatale who establishes a playful, teasing relationship with Wayne that "takes some of the somberness away from his character", and pursues a "clean slate" (a computer program rumored to be able to erase a person's criminal history) when she crosses paths with both Wayne and Batman. Hathaway auditioned not knowing what role she was being considered for. Jessica Biel and Kate Mara were considered for the role.{{cite web | url=https://comicbookmovie.com/batman/the-dark-knight-rises/jessica-biel-touches-briefly-on-losing-the-role-of-catwoman-in-the-dark-knight-rises-a49996 | title=Jessica Biel Touches Briefly on Losing the Role of Catwoman in the Dark Knight Rises | date=November 18, 2011 | access-date=April 2, 2024 | archive-date=August 29, 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240829053045/https://comicbookmovie.com/batman/the-dark-knight-rises/jessica-biel-touches-briefly-on-losing-the-role-of-catwoman-in-the-dark-knight-rises-a49996#gs.eba6dz | url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=http://www.espn.com/espn/page2/index/_/id/7461924 |title=Kate Mara a big fan of Giants, but not Tebowing |last=Igoe |first=Shane |work=ESPN |access-date=January 22, 2025}} Hathaway described the role as being the most physically demanding she had ever played, and confessed that while she thought of herself as being fit, she had to redouble her efforts in the gym to keep up with the demands of the role. Hathaway trained extensively in martial arts for the role, and looked to Hedy Lamarr—who was the initial inspiration for the comic book character—in developing her own performance. Batman Begins and The Dark Knight writer David S. Goyer had previously ruled out in 2008 including Catwoman in a third film for having already appeared in Tim Burton's Batman Returns, portrayed by Michelle Pfeiffer.
• Tom Hardy as Bane:
  A mysterious and physically imposing villain who was excommunicated from the League of Shadows and portrays himself as a "liberator of pain" and revolutionary. He is desperate to continue Ra's al Ghul's legacy by destroying Gotham. The character was chosen by Christopher Nolan because of his desire to see Batman tested on both a physical and mental level. According to costume designer Lindy Hemming, the character wears a mask that supplies him with an analgesic gas to relieve pain he suffers from an injury sustained "early in his story". Hardy intended to portray the character as "more menacing" than Robert Swenson's version of the character in Joel Schumacher's Batman & Robin and that in order to do so, his portrayal entailed creating a contradiction between his voice and body. Hardy gained {{convert|30|lb|kg}} for the role,{{cite web | url=https://www.menshealth.com/uk/fitness/lifestyle/a37933664/tom-hardy-overweight-bane-transformation-dark-knight-rises/ | title=Tom Hardy: I Was "Really Overweight" for Bane Transformation in Dark Knight Rises | date=October 12, 2021 | access-date=June 8, 2024 | archive-date=June 8, 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240608020037/https://www.menshealth.com/uk/fitness/lifestyle/a37933664/tom-hardy-overweight-bane-transformation-dark-knight-rises/ | url-status=live }} increasing his weight to {{convert|200|lb|kg|-1}}. Hardy later said training for the role probably damaged his body.{{cite news | url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/tom-hardy-on-bond-rumors-and-the-mad-max-fury-road-sequels | title=Tom Hardy on Bond Rumors and the 'Mad Max: Fury Road' Sequel(s) | newspaper=The Daily Beast | date=January 15, 2017 | last1=Stern | first1=Marlow | access-date=June 8, 2024 | archive-date=June 8, 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240608020037/https://www.thedailybeast.com/tom-hardy-on-bond-rumors-and-the-mad-max-fury-road-sequels | url-status=live }} Hardy based Bane's voice on several influences, which include Bartley Gorman and the character's comic book heritage.{{cite magazine |url=http://popwatch.ew.com/2012/04/11/this-weeks-cover-the-dark-knight-rises-headlines-our-2012-summer-movie-preview-issue/ |title='The Dark Knight Rises' on EW's Summer Preview cover |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |date=April 11, 2012 |access-date=July 23, 2012 |archive-date=August 15, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120815113911/http://popwatch.ew.com/2012/04/11/this-weeks-cover-the-dark-knight-rises-headlines-our-2012-summer-movie-preview-issue/ |url-status=live }} Bane claims that his revolution's enemies are the rich and the corrupt, who he contends are oppressing "the people", when in reality this was a ruse in order to exploit the citizens of Gotham City for the League of Shadows' ultimate goal in destroying Gotham City.
• Marion Cotillard as Miranda Tate / Talia al Ghul:
  The current CEO of Wayne Enterprises who encourages a still-grieving Bruce to rejoin society and continue his father's philanthropic works but is later revealed to be the daughter of Ra's al Ghul and Bane's accomplice. Cotillard also does her own dub-over voice in both the European and Canadian French dubs of the film.
• Joey King as young Talia al Ghul{{cite web|url=http://www.cosmicbooknews.com/content/dark-knight-rises-2012-joey-king-play-young-talia-al-ghul|title=The Dark Knight Rises (2012): Joey King To Play Young Talia Al Ghul|work=Cosmic Book News|date=January 19, 2012|access-date=August 8, 2015|archive-date=September 23, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923210811/http://www.cosmicbooknews.com/content/dark-knight-rises-2012-joey-king-play-young-talia-al-ghul|url-status=live}}
• Joseph Gordon-Levitt as John Blake:
  A young police officer whose instincts lead him to believe that there is trouble on the horizon and is promoted to detective by Gordon when the elder cop saw something of himself within the younger. Blake represents the idealism that Gordon and Bruce once held, but soon lost in their battle against crime in the city. The film reveals his legal name to be Robin John Blake, a homage to Batman's sidekick in the comics, Robin.{{cite web |last=Ashurst |first=Sam |date=July 24, 2012 |title=The Dark Knight Rises: 50 Best Moments |url=http://www.totalfilm.com/features/the-dark-knight-rises-50-best-moments-1/robin-john-blake |url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120727001103/http://www.totalfilm.com/features/the-dark-knight-rises-50-best-moments-1/robin-john-blake |archive-date=2012-07-27 |access-date=August 10, 2012 |work=Total Film}}
• Morgan Freeman as Lucius Fox:
  The ex-CEO turned executive vice president of Wayne Enterprises, who runs the company on Wayne's behalf and serves as his armorer for the Batsuit, providing him with high-tech equipment and discreetly developing cutting-edge technology and weaponry, even as Wayne Enterprises starts losing money.
• Matthew Modine as Peter Foley: Gordon's second-in-command who disdains Batman.
• Ben Mendelsohn as John Daggett: A rival billionaire socialite who employs Bane in his plan to take control of Wayne Enterprises.
• Burn Gorman as Philip Stryver: Daggett's assistant and senior executive vice president of Daggett Industries.{{cite web |last=Sneider |first=Jeff |date=2011-04-12 |title=Daniel Sunjata, 2 more for 'Dark Knight' |url=https://variety.com/2011/film/news/daniel-sunjata-2-more-for-dark-knight-1118035346/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130728035734/https://variety.com/2011/film/news/daniel-sunjata-2-more-for-dark-knight-1118035346/ |archive-date=2013-07-28 |access-date=2022-04-10 |website=Variety}} Philip Stryver is named after Stryver from A Tale of Two Cities, the novel that The Dark Knight Rises directly drew influence from.
• Néstor Carbonell as Anthony Garcia: Gotham City's mayor. Carbonell reprises his role from The Dark Knight.
• Juno Temple as Jen: Selina Kyle's friend and accomplice.
• Josh Stewart as Barsad: Bane's right-hand man.
• Alon Aboutboul as Dr. Leonid Pavel: A Russian nuclear physicist who is kidnapped by Bane and the League of Shadows in order to convert a fusion reactor funded by Bruce Wayne and Miranda Tate into a weapon to be used for the destruction of Gotham City.
• Aidan Gillen as Bill Wilson: A CIA operative who was tasked with extracting Pavel from Uzbekistan and tracking down Bane for terrorist activities before his appearance in Gotham City. (Bill is referred to solely as "CIA" in the film's dialogue; the character's name is revealed in the film's novelization.){{cite book |last=Cox |first=Greg |date=July 24, 2012 |title=The Dark Knight Rises: The Official Novelization |location=London, England|publisher=Titan Books |isbn=978-1781161067 |author-link=Greg Cox (writer)}}
• Brett Cullen portrays Byron Gilley, a U.S. congressman who is kidnapped by Kyle.{{cite web |last=Fischer |first=Russ |date=May 23, 2011 |title='The Dark Knight Rises' Adds Brett Cullen And Chris Ellis |url=https://www.slashfilm.com/515754/the-dark-knight-rises-adds-brett-cullen-chris-ellis/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220222111035/https://www.slashfilm.com/515754/the-dark-knight-rises-adds-brett-cullen-chris-ellis/ |archive-date=2022-02-22 |access-date=May 24, 2011 |work=/Film}} Brett Cullen would go on to portray Thomas Wayne in the 2019 DC Comics adaptation Joker.{{Cite web |url=https://comicbook.com/dc/2018/09/23/joker-movie-2019-thomas-wayne-mayor-politics-dc-films/ |title='Joker' Set Photo Reveals Thomas Wayne's Political Ambitions |last=Anderson |first=Jenna |date=September 23, 2018 |website=ComicBook.com |access-date=September 26, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180927005448/https://comicbook.com/dc/2018/09/23/joker-movie-2019-thomas-wayne-mayor-politics-dc-films/ |archive-date=September 27, 2018 |url-status=live }}
• Chris Ellis as Father Reilly, a priest at the orphanage in which Blake grew up.
• Tom Conti as Prisoner: An unnamed prisoner who serves as Bruce Wayne's caretaker in Bane's underground prison, The Pit.
• Daniel Sunjata as Mark Jones, a U.S. Special Ops officer who leads a task force into Gotham to assist Gordon and the GCPD in freeing the city from Bane's rule.{{cite news|last=Dang|first=Simon|url=https://www.indiewire.com/2012/02/rescue-me-star-daniel-sunjata-teases-more-about-special-forces-op-character-in-the-dark-knight-rises-113158/|title='Rescue Me' Star Daniel Sunjata Teases More About Special Forces Op Character In 'The Dark Knight Rises'|work=IndieWire|date=February 9, 2012|access-date=November 28, 2016|archive-date=November 29, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161129021911/http://www.indiewire.com/2012/02/rescue-me-star-daniel-sunjata-teases-more-about-special-forces-op-character-in-the-dark-knight-rises-113158/|url-status=live}}
• Liam Neeson as Ra's al Ghul: Liam Neeson reprises his role from Batman Begins in a cameo appearance; he also appears in a brief flashback.
• Josh Pence as young Ra's al Ghul. He appears in scenes set thirty years before the events of Batman Begins.
• Cillian Murphy as Dr. Jonathan Crane: Cillian Murphy reprises his role from Batman Begins and The Dark Knight.{{Cite magazine |last=Corliss |first=Richard |date=2012-07-16 |title=TIME's Review of The Dark Knight Rises: To the Depths, to the Heights |url=https://entertainment.time.com/2012/07/16/times-review-of-the-dark-knight-rises-to-the-depths-to-the-heights/?iid=sl-category-mostpop2 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120719093146/https://entertainment.time.com/2012/07/16/times-review-of-the-dark-knight-rises-to-the-depths-to-the-heights/?iid=sl-category-mostpop2 |archive-date=2012-07-19 |access-date=2022-04-10 |magazine=TIME}}
• India Wadsworth as the wife of Ra's al Ghul and the mother of Talia al Ghul.{{cite web |date=July 23, 2012 |title=Exclusive – Secret Dark Knight Actress Speaks |url=http://screen.yahoo.com/exclusive-secret-dark-knight-actress-speaks-30068493.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120724010422/http://screen.yahoo.com/exclusive-secret-dark-knight-actress-speaks-30068493.html |archive-date=July 24, 2012 |access-date=July 24, 2012 |work=Yahoo! Screen}}
• John Nolan as Douglas Fredericks, a board member of Wayne Enterprises. John Nolan is Christopher Nolan's uncle and he reprises his role from Batman Begins.
• William Devane as the President of the United States.

Other cast members include Rob Brown, Will Estes and Desmond Harrington as police officers; Christopher Judge as one of Bane's henchmen; and Noel Gugliemi as an ex-prisoner who is in charge of exiling corrupt elites during Bane's revolution. Thomas Lennon, who had appeared as a doctor in Nolan's 2000 film Memento, again plays a doctor. Glen Powell makes a pre-fame appearance as a stock exchange trader that gets knocked out by Bane.

United States Senator Patrick Leahy, who had made a cameo appearance in The Dark Knight, returned in The Dark Knight Rises,{{cite news |date=July 3, 2012 |title=US Sen. Patrick Leahy, Batman aficionado, to appear in 'The Dark Knight Rises' with Vt. debut |newspaper=The Washington Post |agency=Associated Press |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/us-sen-patrick-leahy-batman-aficionado-to-appear-in-the-dark-knight-rises-with-vt-debut/2012/07/03/gJQAmeEoKW_story.html |url-status=dead |access-date=July 3, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120711020225/http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/us-sen-patrick-leahy-batman-aficionado-to-appear-in-the-dark-knight-rises-with-vt-debut/2012/07/03/gJQAmeEoKW_story.html |archive-date=July 11, 2012}} as a Wayne Enterprises board member.

Several members of the Pittsburgh Steelers have cameo appearances as members of the fictional Gotham Rogues football team in the film, including Ben Roethlisberger, Hines Ward, Troy Polamalu, Willie Colon, Maurkice Pouncey, Mike Wallace, Heath Miller, Aaron Smith, Ryan Clark, James Farrior, LaMarr Woodley, and Casey Hampton, and former Steelers head coach Bill Cowher as the head coach of the Rogues. Pittsburgh mayor Luke Ravenstahl, a kicker in college, appears as the kicker for the Rogues' opponents, the Rapid City Monuments.

Aaron Eckhart expressed enthusiasm in returning for a sequel if asked, although he later stated Nolan verified that his character, Harvey Dent / Two-Face, was dead, and only archive footage of Eckhart from The Dark Knight appears in the film.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pIgL5jW1WU |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/_pIgL5jW1WU |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|title=Two-Face returning in next Batman movie? |work=YouTube |date=March 10, 2011 |access-date=July 23, 2012}}{{cbignore}}

Zoë Kravitz attempted to audition for a role in the film, but she was rejected for being "too urban".{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/mar/06/im-ok-with-not-getting-it-right-every-time-zoe-kravitz-on-growing-up-famous-and-getting-her-claws-into-batman | title='I'm OK with not getting it right every time': Zoë Kravitz on growing up famous and getting her claws into Batman | newspaper=The Observer | date=March 6, 2022 | last1=Kale | first1=Sirin | access-date=May 10, 2024 | archive-date=March 6, 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220306071149/https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/mar/06/im-ok-with-not-getting-it-right-every-time-zoe-kravitz-on-growing-up-famous-and-getting-her-claws-into-batman | url-status=live }} She would later go on to play Catwoman in the 2022 film The Batman.

{{quote box|quote="The key thing that makes the third film a great possibility for us is that we want to finish our story [...] rather than infinitely blowing up the balloon and expanding the story [...] Unlike the comics, these things don't go on forever in film and viewing it as a story with an end is useful. Viewing it as an ending, that sets you very much on the right track about the appropriate conclusion."|source=—Christopher Nolan, confirming his involvement in The Dark Knight Rises.|width=35%|align=right}}

In 2005, David S. Goyer confirmed that he wrote treatments for two Batman Begins sequels involving the Joker; the first would involve Batman, Harvey Dent and Commissioner Gordon hunting the Joker, while the second would have the Joker scarring Dent and turning him into Two-Face during his trial. The third treatment ended in the same way as the final version of The Dark Knight Rises.{{cite web |last=Moore |first=Ben |date=July 20, 2012 |title='Dark Knight Rises' Spoilers: David S. Goyer Talks Movie Ending |url=https://screenrant.com/dark-knight-rises-ending-spoilers/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120722224436/https://screenrant.com/dark-knight-rises-ending-spoilers/ |archive-date=2012-07-22 |access-date=July 13, 2020 |website=Screen Rant |language=en-US}} Other aspects of the third treatment were incorporated into The Dark Knight.{{cite web |last=Elvy |first=Craig |date=September 28, 2019 |title=What If Joker Was In The Dark Knight Rises... |url=https://screenrant.com/joker-heath-ledger-dark-knight-rises-batman-movie/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190929140541/https://screenrant.com/joker-heath-ledger-dark-knight-rises-batman-movie/ |archive-date=2019-09-29 |access-date=July 13, 2020 |website=Screen Rant |language=en-US}} However, Heath Ledger's family stated that he was planning on reprising his role as the Joker before his death,{{cite news |last=Stolworthy |first=Jacob |date=February 2, 2018 |title=Heath Ledger was planning to return as the Joker in The Dark Knight Rises before his death, say family |url=http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/heath-ledger-joker-return-the-dark-knight-rises-christopher-nolan-died-a8190866.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180205043414/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/heath-ledger-joker-return-the-dark-knight-rises-christopher-nolan-died-a8190866.html |archive-date=2018-02-05 |access-date=July 13, 2020 |website=The Independent}} a notion supported by Ledger's co-star Aaron Eckhart, who portrayed Two-Face in that film. A deleted subplot from The Dark Knight involved Michael Jai White's Gambol surviving his encounter with the Joker to enable Jai White's character to return in a future film to try to take Gotham City over, but these plans were scrapped after Ledger's death and the film was edited to delete Gambol's subplot and have him killed off in the scene where the Joker originally simply mutilated him.{{cite web |last=Ames |first=Jeff |date=2021-01-06 |title=Michael Jai White Reveals Original Plans for Gambol in The Dark Knight |url=https://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/1159825-michael-jai-white-reveals-original-plans-for-gambol-in-the-dark-knight |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210413153421/https://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/1159825-michael-jai-white-reveals-original-plans-for-gambol-in-the-dark-knight |archive-date=April 13, 2021 |access-date=January 18, 2023 |website=ComingSoon.net }} After Ledger's death, Christopher Nolan decided not to recast the role out of respect for his performance, and was initially hesitant to make a third film.{{cite web |last=Bowles |first=Scott |date=2008-12-08 |title=For now, Nolan and Batman will rest in 'Dark' glory |url=https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2008-12-07-dark-knight-nolan_N.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150106114118/http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2008-12-07-dark-knight-nolan_N.htm |archive-date=2015-01-06 |access-date=July 13, 2020 |website=USA Today}}

Warner Bros. president of production Jeff Robinov had hoped a third film would be released in 2011 or 2012. Nolan wanted the story for the third installment to keep him emotionally invested. "On a more superficial level, I have to ask the question," he reasoned, "how many good third movies in a franchise can people name?" Nolan said that he never even thought a third film was possible in the foreword for his book The Art and Making of the Dark Knight Trilogy.{{cite web |last=Eric |first=Steven |date=July 25, 2012 |title=Christopher Nolan's Farewell to Batman |url=http://flapship.com/christopher-nolans-farewell-to-batman/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131105171159/http://flapship.com/christopher-nolans-farewell-to-batman/ |archive-date=2013-11-05 |access-date=July 25, 2012 |work=Flapship}} Nolan only agreed to a third film based on finding a worthwhile story, fearing that he would become bored halfway through production if he discovered the film to be unnecessary. By December 2008, Nolan completed a rough story outline, before he committed himself to Inception. Later in December, Alan F. Horn confirmed that while discussions with Nolan about a third film were ongoing, no casting had been done, and Horn denied all such rumors. Before Nolan confirmed his involvement, Gary Oldman had said he was confident Nolan would return.

Following the success of the Joker in The Dark Knight, studio executives wished for the Riddler to be included as the primary villain as he was considered a similar character and encouraged the casting of Leonardo DiCaprio, while Robin Williams expressed interest.{{cite web |last=Jolin |first=Dan |date=2020-08-19 |title=The Dark Knight Trilogy: The Complete Story Of Christopher Nolan's Batman Films |url=https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/dark-knight-trilogy-complete-story-of-christopher-nolan-batman/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200820204118/https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/dark-knight-trilogy-complete-story-of-christopher-nolan-batman/ |archive-date=2020-08-20 |access-date=2022-04-10 |website=Empire}}{{cite web |url=https://www.empireonline.com/interviews/interview.asp?IID=1054 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120309013059/https://www.empireonline.com/interviews/interview.asp?IID=1054 |archive-date=March 9, 2012 |title=Christopher Nolan: The Movies. The Memories. |work=Empire}} However, Nolan wanted the antagonist to be vastly different from the previous incarnations and committed to using Bane instead, citing the need for a character with a physical presence within the film. He was initially unfamiliar with the character's backstory, but pointed out the appeal of an archetype, labeling it as "the extreme of some type of villainy". When comparing the choice of Bane with the Joker, Nolan highlighted the Joker as an example of "diabolical, chaotic anarchy and has a devilish sense of humor", juxtaposing him against Bane, whom he likened to "a classic movie monster [...] with a terrific brain." Nolan has said that his draft of the script was inspired by Charles Dickens' 1859 novel A Tale of Two Cities, which centers around the French Revolution.{{cite web |last=Bradley |first=Bill |date=2015-04-11 |title=One Thing You Didn't Notice About Bane In 'The Dark Knight Rises' |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/one-thing-you-didnt-notice-about-dark-knight-rises_n_7027762 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200728184806/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/one-thing-you-didnt-notice-about-dark-knight-rises_n_7027762 |archive-date=2020-07-28 |access-date=2022-04-10 |website=The Huffington Post}}{{Cite news |last=Wickman |first=Forrest |date=2012-07-21 |title=The Dickensian Aspects of The Dark Knight Rises |url=https://slate.com/culture/2012/07/the-dark-knight-rises-inspired-by-a-tale-of-two-cities-the-parts-that-draw-from-dickens.html |access-date=2024-03-24 |work=Slate |language=en-US |issn=1091-2339 |archive-date=March 24, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240324191929/https://slate.com/culture/2012/07/the-dark-knight-rises-inspired-by-a-tale-of-two-cities-the-parts-that-draw-from-dickens.html |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last=Goldberg |first=Matt |date=2012-07-09 |title=Christopher and Jonathan Nolan Explain How A Tale of Two Cities Influenced The Dark Knight Rises |url=https://collider.com/dark-knight-rises-tale-of-two-cities/ |access-date=2024-03-24 |website=Collider |archive-date=April 23, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230423110257/https://collider.com/dark-knight-rises-tale-of-two-cities/ |url-status=live }} This homage to Dickens was briefly illustrated by having Bane inconspicuously finger knit paracord in the film, symbolizing Madame Defarge, the villain of A Tale of Two Cities, and more overtly by Commissioner Gordon's eulogy for Bruce Wayne, which is taken directly from Dickens' novel.

On February 9, 2010, it was announced that Nolan had "cracked" the story and was committed to returning to the project. Shortly afterward, it was announced David S. Goyer and Jonathan Nolan were working on a screenplay. Goyer would leave the project during pre-production to begin work on Man of Steel; Jonathan continued writing the script based on the story by his brother Chris and Goyer. Nolan said that his brother's original draft was about 400 pages.{{cite web |last=Schaeffer |first=Sandy |date=2012-07-09 |title='Dark Knight Rises' 13-Minute Featurette; Nolan Brothers Talk Inspiration |url=https://screenrant.com/dark-knight-rises-featurette-chris-nolan-influence/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220410182556/https://screenrant.com/dark-knight-rises-featurette-chris-nolan-influence/ |archive-date=2022-04-10 |access-date=2022-04-10 |website=Screen Rant}} The film's storyline has been compared with the Batman comic book series' story arc "Knightfall" (1993), which showcases Bane; the miniseries The Dark Knight Returns (1986), in which Batman returns to Gotham City after a ten-year absence; and the story arc "No Man's Land" (1999), which depicts a Gotham cut off from the rest of the world and overrun by gangs. The nickname "the Dark Knight" was first applied to Batman in Batman #1 (1940), in a story written by Bill Finger.{{Cite book |last=Nobleman |first=Marc Tyler |title=Bill the Boy Wonder: The Secret Co-Creator of Batman |publisher=Charlesbridge Publishing |date=2012-07-01 |isbn=978-1580892896 |location=Watertown, Massachusetts |language=en}}{{cite web |last=Cronin |first=Brian |date=August 30, 2018 |title=When Was Batman First Referred To As 'The Dark Knight'? |url=https://www.cbr.com/batman-dark-knight-first-usage/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200904224009/https://www.cbr.com/batman-dark-knight-first-usage/ |archive-date=2020-09-04 |access-date=2022-04-10 |website=Comic Book Resources}}

Nolan confirmed the Joker would not return in the third film, and dismissed rumors that he considered using unused footage of Ledger from The Dark Knight. The Dark Knight Rises reunited Nolan with many of his past collaborators, including cinematographer Wally Pfister, production designer Nathan Crowley, editor Lee Smith, costume designer Lindy Hemming, special effects supervisors Paul Franklin and Chris Corbould, and composer Hans Zimmer.

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During location scouting in December 2010, Nolan began searching for locations such as India, Romania, and Michigan. According to the Romania Insider, Nolan was interested in Bucharest's historical centers, Edgar Quinet Street, the Palace of the Parliament, and the Turda salt mine. The film had an estimated budget of $250–300 million, coming down to about $230 million after tax credits. Nolan elected not to film in 3-D, but instead stated that he intended to focus on improving image quality and scale using the IMAX format. The Dark Knight Rises featured over an hour of footage shot in IMAX (by comparison, The Dark Knight contained 28 minutes). Nolan had several meetings with IMAX Vice-president David Keighley to work on the logistics of projecting films in digital IMAX venues.

Wally Pfister had expressed interest in shooting the film entirely in IMAX, but because of the considerable noise made by IMAX cameras, 35 mm and 70 mm cameras had to be used for shooting the film's dialogue scenes, as dialogue had to be dubbed when shot with IMAX cameras. Chairman and president of the IMAX Corporation Greg Foster stated that IMAX planned to run the film in its theatres for two months, despite only being contractually committed to run the film for two weeks. Nolan also bypassed the use of a digital intermediate for the film, resulting in less manipulation of the filmed image and higher film resolution.

Filming was scheduled to start in May and conclude in November 2011. Principal photography commenced on May 6, 2011, in Jodhpur, India, at the Mehrangarh Fort before moving to Pittsburgh, where it operated under the working title Magnus Rex to reduce the visibility of the production. Shooting locations within the city included Heinz Field, the site of an American football game, with members of the Pittsburgh Steelers playing the Gotham Rogues football team. More than 11,000 extras were used to depict the shot sequence. Filming in Pittsburgh also took place at the Mellon Institute and Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. A letter sent out to residents and business owners detailing road closures revealed that the streets of the city would be featured "as the start of [the] film". 9-1-1 operators were told to expect an increase in calls related to gunshots and explosions in the film's production.

The Pittsburgh leg of production wrapped after three weeks on August 21, 2011. The next portion of the filming began in Los Angeles in late August and finished up on October 23 after nine weeks of filming. New York and New Jersey were the next places of filming. The Trump Tower replaced the Richard J. Daley Center as the location for the headquarters of Wayne Enterprises. In November 2011, shooting shifted to Newark, New Jersey. Newark City Hall and Military Park were among the locations used for filming. Other shooting locations include London and Glasgow, the latter of which was used for "additional exterior filming". Principal photography concluded on November 14, 2011. The external waterfall scene at the end of the film was shot at Sgwd Henrhyd falls, on the edge of the Brecon Beacons National Park in Wales.

Production photos from filming in Pittsburgh showed a second Tumbler chassis after the first was destroyed, indicating that a new Batmobile would be in the film, following the destruction of the first in The Dark Knight. Further set photos revealed a "new vehicle" being transported to Wabash Tunnel, prompting speculation as to its nature. In June 2011, Autoblog confirmed the presence of the new Lamborghini Aventador on the film set.

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Several accidents occurred during the production of the film. While filming at Wollaton Hall, Nottingham, a tractor-trailer crashed into the main entrance, though no one was injured. A stuntman parachutist later crashed through the roof of a home in Cairngorm Gliding Club, Feshiebridge in Scotland, and became wedged there after a failed landing during a skydiving stunt; he was not seriously injured. While filming scenes in Pittsburgh, Hathaway's stunt double crashed into an IMAX camera while filming a sequence that required her to ride a Batpod down a flight of stairs during a riot. There were no injuries, but the camera was destroyed. A second accident took place in Pittsburgh when the truck carrying the then-unidentified vehicle later termed "the Bat" went off-course and crashed into a lighting array, damaging the model of the aircraft. Production was delayed while the model was repaired.

Shortly before Christmas of 2011, Christopher Nolan invited several prominent directors, including Edgar Wright, Michael Bay, Bryan Singer, Jon Favreau, Eli Roth, Duncan Jones and Stephen Daldry, to Universal CityWalk's IMAX theatre for a private screening of the first six minutes of The Dark Knight Rises, which had been shot on IMAX film and edited from the original camera negative. Nolan, feeling that the use of film stock in cinema was being phased out due to the introduction of digital cinematography and projection, used this screening to make a case for the continued use of film, which he asserts still offers superior image quality to any digital format, and warned the filmmakers that unless they continued to assert their choice to use film in their productions, they may eventually lose it as an option. Nolan explained; "I wanted to give them a chance to see the potential, because I think IMAX is the best film format that was ever invented. It's the gold standard and what any other technology has to match up to, but none have, in my opinion. The message I wanted to put out there was that no one is taking anyone's digital cameras away. But if we want film to continue as an option, and someone is working on a big studio movie with the resources and the power to insist [on] film, they should say so. I felt as if I didn't say anything, and then we started to lose that option, it would be a shame. When I look at a digitally acquired and projected image, it looks inferior against an original negative anamorphic print or an IMAX one."

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Costume designer Lindy Hemming explained that Bane uses a mask to inhale an analgesic gas, which, in director Christopher Nolan's words, "keeps his pain just below the threshold so he can function." In designing Bane's costume, Hemming needed it to look "like an amalgam of all sorts of bits and pieces he cobbled together, as he passed through some very remote places. We made parts of his vest, for example, from fragments of an old military tent. His clothes are militaristic, but are not in any way a uniform." Hemming also designed Bane's mask to look "animalistic". Costume effects supervisor Graham Churchyard created a three-dimensional model of actor Tom Hardy's face and skull to design the mask, allowing the mask to perfectly conform to the contours of Hardy's face. Hemming personally designed Bane's coat, which took two years to complete. Taking inspiration from a Swedish army jacket and a frock coat from the French Revolution, it was designed to make Bane look equal parts dictatorial and revolutionary. The design was difficult as Hemming struggled to find a tailor in Los Angeles who could work with shearling.

The Batsuit consisted of 110 separate pieces, each of which had to be replicated dozens of times over the course of the production. The base layer was made of a polyester mesh that is utilized by the military and high-tech sports manufacturers because of its breathability and moisture-wicking properties. Molded pieces of flexible urethane were then attached to the mesh, to form the overall body armor plating. Carbon fiber panels were placed inside the sections on the legs, chest and abdomen. The cowl was sculpted from a cast of Bale's face and head to become a perfect fit for Christian Bale. The suit remained unchanged for the film since The Dark Knight.

In creating Selina Kyle's catsuit, two layers of material were used, the outer layer being polyurethane-coated spandex embossed with a hexagonal pattern. The catsuit also consisted of elbow-length gloves, a utility belt, and thigh-high boots with spike heels.

Concept artist Tully Summers commented on Nolan's style of cinematography when asked about the difference between his designs for this film and fantasy-based designs for Men in Black 3: "The difference for me was Christopher Nolan's visual style. One of the things that makes his Batman movies so compelling is their tone of plausibility. He will often prefer a raw, grittier design over one that is very sleek and product design pretty. It's sort of a practical military aesthetic. This stuff is made to work, not impress shoppers. The Dark Knight Rises is a war film." Producer Emma Thomas stated this Batman film has a different visual aesthetic from the first two Nolan-directed features, explaining that "it's meant to be winter in Gotham, so that right there is going to lend a whole different look to the film."

The film introduces a vehicle that has been compared with the Batplane and the Batcopter, dubbed "the Bat". In designing the Bat, Nathan Crowley approached it as if it were an actual military project, emphasising the need for it to "fit into the same family" as the Tumbler and the Batpod. The final version of the Bat takes its design cues from the Harrier jump jet, Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey and the Boeing AH-64 Apache. Chris Corbould described the Bat's size and shape as presenting a major challenge for filming given Christopher Nolan's emphasis on practical effects over computer-generated imagery. In order to make the Bat "fly", it was variously supported by wires, suspended from cranes and helicopters, and mounted on a purpose-built vehicle with hydraulic controls to simulate movement.

When designing the Batcave set, Crowley and fellow production designer Kevin Kavanaugh hit upon the idea of flooding the Batcave and having Batman's equipment, the Batsuit and a supercomputer rise from the water. Another set was designed at Cardington as an "underground prison", a rough-hewn labyrinth of stone cells in a vast abyss with a {{convert|120|foot|m}} vertical shaft leading to the surface. Exteriors above the prison were filmed in Jodhpur, India, chosen because the "forbidding landscape added to the desolation".

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In an interview in October 2010, composer Hans Zimmer confirmed that he would be returning to score The Dark Knight Rises. James Newton Howard was offered to return and write the score with Zimmer as he did for Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, but he chose not to because he noted that the chemistry established between Zimmer and Nolan during the making of Inception would make him seem like a "third wheel". Zimmer included several cues from the earlier scores but explained that he wanted to go in a "completely different direction" for Bane's theme.

The film features a prevalent chant of the phrase "Deshi Basara".{{cite web |date=July 25, 2012 |title=Hans Zimmer Speaks On The "Deshi Basara" Chant In "The Dark Knight Rises" |url=http://www.flicksandbits.com/2012/07/25/hans-zimmer-speaks-on-the-deshi-basara-chant-in-the-dark-knight-rises/28983/ |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130109150657/http://www.flicksandbits.com/2012/07/25/hans-zimmer-speaks-on-the-deshi-basara-chant-in-the-dark-knight-rises/28983/ |archive-date=January 9, 2013 |access-date=December 28, 2012 |website=Flicks and Bits}}{{cite web |last=Eisenberg |first=Eric |date=November 4, 2011 |title=Be Part of the Dark Knight Rises Score By Recording Yourself Chanting |url=https://www.cinemablend.com/new/Part-Dark-Knight-Rises-Score-By-Recording-Yourself-Chanting-27748.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111106161233/https://www.cinemablend.com/new/Part-Dark-Knight-Rises-Score-By-Recording-Yourself-Chanting-27748.html |archive-date=2011-11-06 |access-date=July 23, 2012 |work=CinemaBlend}} In November 2011, Zimmer crowdsourced online audio recordings of the chant to be used in the film's score. When asked about the chant for clarification, Zimmer said, "The chant became a very complicated thing because I wanted hundreds of thousands of voices, and it's not so easy to get hundreds of thousands of voices. So, we tweeted and we posted on the internet, for people who wanted to be part of it. It seemed like an interesting thing. We've created this world, over these last two movies, and somehow I think the audience and the fans have been part of this world. We do keep them in mind."

Just like Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, the film's main theme consists in just two notes repeated, representing Batman's pain and guilt.{{cite web |author=MasterClass Staff|date=2018-10-09 |title=How Hans Zimmer Composed the Batman Theme Song |url=https://www.masterclass.com/articles/how-hans-zimmer-composed-the-batman-dark-knight-theme-song#how-hans-zimmer-created-the-batman-theme-song |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190506231525/https://www.masterclass.com/articles/how-hans-zimmer-composed-the-batman-dark-knight-theme-song |archive-date=2019-05-06 |access-date=2022-04-10 |website=MasterClass}} Many times is also reprised in small parts "Molossus", Batman's main action theme in the trilogy.{{cite web |last=Scheller |first=Matt |date=2005-06-05 |title=Batman Begins - First Listen - Exclusive |url=https://www.soundtrack.net/content/article/?id=150 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120404233919/https://www.soundtrack.net/content/article/?id=150 |archive-date=2012-04-04 |access-date=September 30, 2021 |website=Soundtrack.net}}

The official website launched in May 2011, introducing a viral marketing campaign similar to the one used to promote The Dark Knight. The website streamed an encrypted audio file described by users as chanting. Users decrypted the audio to the Twitter hashtag, "#TheFireRises". Warner Bros. removed a pixel from the webpage for every tweet using the hashtag. The website revealed the first official image of Bane.

In July 2011, a teaser trailer leaked online before its official release with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2. The studio released the teaser three days after the leak. The trailer received mixed responses; Stephen Spencer Davis of Slate wrote that it successfully built hype, while Kofi Outlaw of Screen Rant showed disappointment, claiming it was more of an "announcement trailer" than an actual teaser trailer. Outlaw criticized the quality, writing that a scene depicting Commissioner Gordon in a hospital bed was overly dramatic, had "hammy" dialogue, and was difficult to understand due to Gordon's labored breathing. Outlaw wrote that the sweeping shot of Gotham City had poor CGI and was too reminiscent of the Inception trailer. The theatrical trailer leaked online, like the teaser trailer, before being released the following week attached to theatrical prints of Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. Critics noted political undertones with dialogue foreshadowing the theme of income inequality and an what they consider an "Occupy Gotham" campaign within the world of the story. Receiving more than 12.5 million views in the first 24 hours after its release, the trailer set the record for most combined downloads from iTunes, beating the previous record held by The Avengers. However, the second trailer for The Avengers again set the record with 13.7 million downloads. Warner Bros. attached a second theatrical trailer for The Dark Knight Rises to theatrical prints of The Avengers. An "unnamed" Warner Brothers executive clarified that "We see this placement as a good strategic decision. We always want our trailers to be seen with films that people want to see—and a lot of people will be going to The Avengers!" The executive also commented that the trailer will "provide the best potential exposure for TDKR." Warner Bros. released the trailer online on April 30, 2012, approximately four days before they attached it to theatrical prints of The Avengers.

Continuing a method used with The Dark Knight whereby the opening sequence of the film was attached to IMAX prints of I Am Legend seven months before release, a six-minute prologue of The Dark Knight Rises was attached to 70mm IMAX prints of Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, again approximately seven months before release. Critical reaction to the prologue was positive. Addressing the issue in an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Nolan said "I think when people see the film, things will come into focus. Bane is very complex and very interesting and when people see the finished film people will be very entertained by him."

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Viral marketing campaigns for the film continued as magazine companies Empire and Wired received "CIA documents" concerning a "Dr. Leonid Pavel", with its mugshot connected to actor Alon Abutbul. According to the first document, Pavel is a missing Russian nuclear physicist, while the second document appears to be an edited transcript of a conversation discussing the handover of Dr. Pavel to the CIA by Georgian separatists, but with most of the conversation redacted. These were later shown to be plot elements of the six-minute prologue. The official Twitter account later linked to another censored document, this time, referencing "Operation Early Bird". A website of the same name was discovered, revealing a countdown timer. When the countdown finished, the site presented a map showing all available theaters that would be screening the film's prologue earlier than its release.

Various websites received a package that included a cylinder map of "strike zones", and a "fire rises" T-shirt. In April 2012, the film's official website was updated with a "dossier" on a suspect named "John Doe" also known as "the Batman" for an arrest, with a list of several accusations. The premise of the campaign starts when the mayor of Gotham City "redoubles" the effort to capture Batman and anyone supporting his return in preparation for the upcoming "Harvey Dent Day". The site also includes an extensive list of real-world locations where "graffiti related to movement in support of the vigilante's return" is located. For each tweet of a specific location marked on the list, a frame of the second theatrical trailer for the film was released on a separate website.

In January 2012, six months prior to the film's release, tickets for midnight IMAX showings in New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles went on sale and sold out immediately. Purchased tickets surfaced for sale online for over $100, compared with their original price of $17.50.

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At the American International Toy Fair, Mattel unveiled figures for Batman, Bane, Catwoman, and Batman's flying vehicle, the Bat. The Mattel figures were also released in the "Movie Masters" line, featuring more highly detailed and articulated presentation, and Quiktek versions that feature interchangeable accessories. Lego released building sets and mini-figures based on the film and incorporating other DC Comic characters. Additionally, Funko released a series of plush toys, Mezco Toyz released vinyl figures, and Hornby released the Batman Tumbler car. Other partners include Jakks Pacific, who created novelty and large-scale figures and plush toys, and PPW Toys, who created a Batman themed Mr. Potato Head. Various clothing items including shoes, T-shirts, hats and wallets were also produced.

A video game of the same name was released on the same day as the release of the film for the iOS and Android devices for promoting the movie. It was made by Gameloft. The game features an open world with primary focus on stealth and combat. The combat system of the game is inspired from Arkham Asylum and Arkham City. It takes place in Gotham City, with a somewhat similar but still significantly different plot from that of the movie. IGN gave it a mediocre score of 5.5/10.

The film novelization, written by author Greg Cox and published by Titan Books, was released alongside the film on July 24, 2012.

Warner Bros. partnered with Mountain Dew to do a cross-promotion that included a special paint scheme on the number 88 Chevrolet Impala owned by Hendrick Motorsports and driven by Dale Earnhardt Jr. in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. On June 17, 2012, the car won the 2012 Quicken Loans 400 at Michigan International Speedway. On July 4, 2012, the studio signed a deal with Formula One team Lotus F1 to have the film's logos appear on the Lotus E20s driven by Kimi Räikkönen and Romain Grosjean at the 2012 British Grand Prix. Räikkönen and Grosjean went on to finish the race in fifth and sixth place respectively. Warner Bros. had previously followed a similar promotion at the 2008 British Grand Prix, when the now-defunct Toyota F1 carried a livery to promote The Dark Knight.

Two digital comic books entitled Batman Origins{{cite web |url=http://wmpoweruser.com/nokia-releases-batman-origins-comic-app-for-lumia-windows-phone-devices/ |title=Nokia Releases Batman Origins Comic App For Lumia Windows Phone Devices |work=WMPoweruser |date=July 5, 2012 |access-date=September 1, 2012 |archive-date=January 31, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160131231142/http://wmpoweruser.com/nokia-releases-batman-origins-comic-app-for-lumia-windows-phone-devices/ |url-status=dead }} and The Dark Knight: Prologue{{cite web |author=polofaby |url=http://www.wpcentral.com/nokia-releases-dark-knight-prologue-app-lumia-phones |title=Nokia releases The Dark Knight Rises: Prologue app for Lumia phones | Windows Phone News, Forums, and Reviews |work=wpcentral |date=August 20, 2012 |access-date=September 1, 2012 |archive-date=August 23, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120823162230/http://www.wpcentral.com/nokia-releases-dark-knight-prologue-app-lumia-phones? |url-status=live }} were released exclusively for Nokia Lumia devices. A special movie application has also been released, featuring trailers, wallpapers, movie schedules and Batman trivias.{{cite web |author=polofaby |url=http://www.wpcentral.com/dark-knight-rises-now-available-lumia-windows-phones |title=The Dark Knight Rises now available for Lumia Windows Phones | Windows Phone News, Forums, and Reviews |work=wpcentral |date=June 2, 2012 |access-date=September 1, 2012 |archive-date=September 5, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120905014440/http://www.wpcentral.com/dark-knight-rises-now-available-lumia-windows-phones |url-status=live }} Limited editions of the Lumia 710, Lumia 800 and Lumia 900 were also released featuring a laser-etched Batman logo.{{cite web |url=http://gadgets.ndtv.com/mobiles/news/okia-lumia-800-the-dark-knight-rises-limited-edition-debuts-in-india-240307 |title=Nokia Lumia 800 The Dark Knight Rises limited edition debuts in India | NDTV Gadgets |work=Gadgets.ndtv.com |date=July 6, 2012 |access-date=September 1, 2012 |archive-date=August 20, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120820094955/http://gadgets.ndtv.com/mobiles/news/okia-lumia-800-the-dark-knight-rises-limited-edition-debuts-in-india-240307 |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=http://www.gsmarena.com/the_dark_knight_rises_lumia_710_announced_for_tmobile-news-4414.php |title=The Dark Knight Rises Lumia 710 announced for T-Mobile – GSMArena.com news |work=Gsmarena.com |access-date=September 1, 2012 |archive-date=September 11, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120911022926/http://www.gsmarena.com/the_dark_knight_rises_lumia_710_announced_for_tmobile-news-4414.php |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=http://www.phones4u.co.uk/nokia/lumia-900/the-dark-knight-rises-limited-edition/ |title=Nokia | Nokia Phones |work=Phones 4u |date=March 13, 2012 |access-date=September 1, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120713235414/http://www.phones4u.co.uk/nokia/lumia-900/the-dark-knight-rises-limited-edition/ |archive-date=July 13, 2012 }}

On July 6, 2012, Warner Bros. held a special IMAX screening of The Dark Knight Rises for more than one hundred reporters and critics. However, technical issues with the computer device synchronizing the sound and picture forced the studio to postpone the screening by a day.{{cite web|last=Finke|first=Nikke|title='The Dark Knight Rises' Doesn't For Media|url=https://deadline.com/2012/07/the-dark-knight-rises-doesnt-for-media-297057/|access-date=July 7, 2012|newspaper=Deadline Hollywood|date=July 6, 2012|archive-date=July 8, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120708010813/http://www.deadline.com/2012/07/the-dark-knight-rises-doesnt-for-media/|url-status=live}} The film later premiered on July 16 at the AMC Lincoln Square Theater in New York City, followed by a European premiere on July 18 at Leicester Square in London, England. The film was released in Australia and New Zealand on July 19, and was later released in North America and the United Kingdom on July 20.

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{{quote box|quote="I would not presume to know anything about the victims of the shooting but that they were there last night to watch a movie. I believe movies are one of the great American art forms and the shared experience of watching a story unfold on screen is an important and joyful pastime. The movie theatre is my home, and the idea that someone would violate that innocent and hopeful place in such an unbearably savage way is devastating to me. Nothing any of us can say could ever adequately express our feelings for the innocent victims of this appalling crime, but our thoughts are with them and their families."|source=—Director Christopher Nolan's reaction to the theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado.|width=35%|align=right}}

On July 20, 2012, during a midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises at the Century 16 cinema in Aurora, Colorado, a gunman wearing a gas mask opened fire inside the theater, killing 12 people and injuring 58 others. Police responding to the shooting apprehended a suspect, later identified as 24-year-old James Eagan Holmes, shortly after arriving on the scene. Initial reports stated that Holmes identified himself as "the Joker" at the time of his arrest, although this has been debunked.{{Cite magazine |last=Desta |first=Yohana |date=2019-10-02 |title=The Joker Didn't Inspire the Aurora Shooter, but the Rumor Won't Go Away |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/10/joker-aurora-shooting-rumor |access-date=2024-05-09 |magazine=Vanity Fair |language=en-US |archive-date=October 23, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201023223114/https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/10/joker-aurora-shooting-rumor |url-status=live }}

Warner Bros. cancelled the Paris, Mexico, and Japan premieres of The Dark Knight Rises, and suspended the film's marketing campaign in Finland. Several broadcast networks also suspended television ads for the film in the United States.{{cite web|title=Networks, not Warner Bros, Pulled 'The Dark Knight Rises' TV Ads|url=http://deadline.com/2012/07/dark-knight-rises-tv-ads-pulled-networks-shooting/|website=Deadline Hollywood|access-date=July 21, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130102112158/http://m.deadline.com/2012/07/dark-knight-rises-tv-ads-pulled-networks-shooting/|archive-date=January 2, 2013}} The trailer for Gangster Squad, another Warner Bros. movie included in the screening of The Dark Knight Rises, was removed as it contains a scene which shows gangsters shooting submachine guns at moviegoers through the screen, similar to the shooting in Aurora.{{cite web|last=Blunt|first=Tom|title=Warner Brothers Pulls 'Gangster Squad' Trailer, Schedules Emergency Reshoots|url=http://www.wordandfilm.com/2012/07/warner-brothers-pulls-gangster-squad-trailer-schedules-emergency-reshoots/|work=Word & Film|access-date=July 25, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120727173138/http://www.wordandfilm.com/2012/07/warner-brothers-pulls-gangster-squad-trailer-schedules-emergency-reshoots/|archive-date=July 27, 2012|url-status=dead}}

Director Christopher Nolan released a public statement calling the shooting "unbearably savage".{{cite web |last=Finn |first=Natalie |date=July 21, 2012 |title=Dark Knight Rises Director Christopher Nolan Breaks Silence on "Unbearably Savage" Colorado Shooting |url=http://au.eonline.com/news/331987/dark-knight-rises-director-christopher-nolan-breaks-silence-on-unbearably-savage-colorado-shooting |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120723054534/http://www.eonline.com/news/331987/dark-knight-rises-director-christopher-nolan-breaks-silence-on-unbearably-savage-colorado-shooting |archive-date=2012-07-23 |access-date=July 21, 2012 |work=E! News}} Other stars of the film released statements expressing their condolences, with star Christian Bale paying a personal visit to the survivors and the memorial in Aurora.{{cite web |last=Malkin |first=Marc |date=July 24, 2012 |title=Dark Knight Rises Shooting: Christian Bale Visits Victims in Hospital |url=http://www.eonline.com/news/332776/dark-knight-rises-shooting-christian-bale-visits-victims-in-hospital |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120726141336/http://www.eonline.com/news/332776/dark-knight-rises-shooting-christian-bale-visits-victims-in-hospital |archive-date=2012-07-26 |access-date=July 24, 2012 |work=E! News}}

The Dark Knight Rises was released on November 28, 2012, in Hong Kong and New Zealand. On December 3, it was released in the United Kingdom, and on December 4, it was released in the United States. It is available on Blu-ray, DVD, and as a digital download. Coinciding with the release of this film, a box set of The Dark Knight Trilogy was released.{{cite web | url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dark-Knight-Trilogy-Blu-ray-Region/dp/B008JARIIA | title=The Dark Knight Trilogy Blu-ray + UV Copy Region Free | work=Amazon | date=December 3, 2012 | access-date=December 3, 2012 | archive-date=December 3, 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121203040724/http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dark-Knight-Trilogy-Blu-ray-Region/dp/B008JARIIA | url-status=live }} The Dark Knight Rises film was released on 4K UHD Blu-ray on December 19, 2017.{{cite web |last=Bonomolo |first=Cameron |date=2017-11-21 |title=The Dark Knight Trilogy Gets 4K Remasters |url=https://comicbook.com/movies/news/the-dark-knight-trilogy-4K-remasters-2017/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200502050851/https://comicbook.com/movies/news/the-dark-knight-trilogy-4K-remasters-2017/ |archive-date=2020-05-02 |access-date=2022-04-10 |website=CinemaBlend}}

Hours before the midnight release of the film, several box-office analysts suggested as much as a $198 million domestic opening weekend.{{cite web|url=http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-07-19/dark-knight-rises-may-top-ledger-movie-with-198-million-debut |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120721081942/http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-07-19/dark-knight-rises-may-top-ledger-movie-with-198-million-debut |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 21, 2012 |title='Dark Knight Rises' May Top Ledger Movie With $198 Million Debut|work=Bloomberg BusinessWeek|date=July 19, 2012|access-date=July 22, 2012}}{{cite news|last=White|first=Michael|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-19/-dark-knight-rises-may-top-ledger-movie-with-198-million-debut.html|title='Dark Knight Rises' May Top Ledger Movie With $198 Million Debut|work=Bloomberg L.P.|date=July 19, 2012|access-date=July 23, 2012|archive-date=July 21, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120721222409/http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-19/-dark-knight-rises-may-top-ledger-movie-with-198-million-debut.html|url-status=live}}{{cite news|last1=Grover|first1=Ronald|last2=Richwine|first2=Lisa|url=http://entertainment.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/07/22/12890550-dark-knight-rises-sales-below-forecasts-after-shooting?lite|title='Dark Knight Rises' sales below forecasts after shooting|agency=Reuters|work=Entertainment on MSNBC.com|date=July 22, 2012|access-date=July 22, 2012|archive-date=December 17, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181217154622/http://entertainment.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/07/22/12890550-dark-knight-rises-sales-below-forecasts-after-shooting?lite|url-status=dead}} However, in the wake of the mass shooting during a midnight screening of the film, Warner Bros. decided to not report further box-office figures for the movie until Monday, July 23, 2012.{{cite news|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/warner-bros-delays-batman-box-office-reports/|title=Warner Bros. delays Batman box office reports|work=CBS News|date=July 21, 2012|access-date=July 21, 2012|archive-date=July 22, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120722081410/http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-207_162-57477259/warner-bros-delays-batman-box-office-reports/|url-status=live}} As a result, other distributors also delayed the release of their official estimates as well.{{cite magazine|title=Box office update: Studios not releasing numbers today|url=http://insidemovies.ew.com/2012/07/21/dark-knight-rises-no-box-office-today/|access-date=July 21, 2012|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|date=July 21, 2012|archive-date=July 22, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120722083453/http://insidemovies.ew.com/2012/07/21/dark-knight-rises-no-box-office-today/|url-status=live}} The shooting is also speculated to have hurt the ticket sales as E! Online reported that a North Carolina audience member had stated that "this theater was kinda empty".{{cite web|first=Joal|last=Ryan|url=http://www.eonline.com/news/332047/dark-knight-rises-opening-day-not-business-as-usual|title=Dark Knight Rises' Opening Day: Not Business as Usual|work=E! Online|date=July 21, 2012|access-date=July 21, 2012|archive-date=July 23, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120723055127/http://www.eonline.com/news/332047/dark-knight-rises-opening-day-not-business-as-usual|url-status=live}} Some reports released on July 21, 2012, said that rival studios estimated that the film grossed $75 million to $77 million on its opening day. Warner Bros. shortly after released a statement to ABC News stating that they delayed the release of their estimates for the opening day total of the film "out of respect for the victims and their families," and added "Warner Bros. Pictures will not be reporting box office numbers for The Dark Knight Rises throughout the weekend. Box office numbers will be released on Monday."{{cite web|first=Sheila|last=Marikar|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/warner-bros-holds-dark-knight-rises-box-office/story?id=16827515#.UAtaorRSTlc|title=Warner Bros. Holds 'Dark Knight Rises' Box Office Numbers 'Out of Respect'|work=ABC|date=July 21, 2012|access-date=July 21, 2012|archive-date=July 21, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120721201236/http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/warner-bros-holds-dark-knight-rises-box-office/story?id=16827515#.UAtaorRSTlc|url-status=live}}

The Dark Knight Rises earned $448.1 million in North America, and $632.9 million in other countries, summing up to a worldwide total of $1.081 billion. Worldwide, it became the seventh-highest-grossing film of all time and the third-highest-grossing film of 2012. It had a worldwide opening weekend of $248.9 million. The film set a worldwide IMAX opening-weekend record with $23.8 million (overtaken by Avengers: Age of Ultron){{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2015/05/avengers-age-of-ultron-imax-furious-7-international-box-office-china-1201419976/|title='Ultron' Outpacing 'Avengers' & 'IM3' With $439M; 'F7' Fuels Up – Intl B.O. Update|first=Nancy|last=Tartaglione|website=Deadline Hollywood|publisher=(Penske Media Corporation)|date=May 3, 2015|access-date=May 4, 2015|archive-date=July 4, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150704165101/http://deadline.com/2015/05/avengers-age-of-ultron-imax-furious-7-international-box-office-china-1201419976/|url-status=live}} and also broke the record for the fastest movie to make over $50 million in IMAX theatres. IMAX CEO Richard L. Gelfond explained this by claiming, "Audiences are clearly seeking out and embracing the film the way it was meant to be seen – in IMAX." On the 2012 Labor Day weekend, it became the third film distributed by Warner Bros. and the thirteenth film in cinematic history to cross the $1 billion mark.{{cite web |last=McClintock |first=Pamela |date=2012-09-02 |title=Box Office Milestone: 'Dark Knight Rises' Crosses $1 Billion Worldwide |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/box-office-milestone-dark-knight-rises-warner-bros-christopher-nolan-christian-bale-367476/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210506180407/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/box-office-milestone-dark-knight-rises-warner-bros-christopher-nolan-christian-bale-367476/ |archive-date=2021-05-06 |access-date=2022-04-10 |website=The Hollywood Reporter}} The film also became the second movie (after Avatar) to reach $100 million in worldwide IMAX grosses.{{cite web |last=Subers |first=Ray |date=September 4, 2012 |title=Around-the-World Roundup: 'Dark Knight Rises' Joins Billionaire Club |url=https://boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=3514&p=.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200430130530/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/article/ed1568474116/ |archive-date=2020-04-30 |access-date=September 9, 2012 |website=Box Office Mojo}}

The Dark Knight Rises opened on Friday, July 20, 2012. It earned an estimated $30.6 million in midnight showings, which was the second-highest midnight gross behind Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 ($43.5 million). It did, however, set an IMAX midnight-gross record with $2.3 million (overtaken by Avengers: Age of Ultron).{{cite web |author=D'Alessandro |first=Anthony |date=May 1, 2015 |title='Age Of Ultron's $27.6M Thursday Outstrips First 'Avengers' Preview Night; Global Haul At $314.9M |url=https://deadline.com/2015/05/avengers-age-of-ultron-thursday-box-office-1201419080/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150502113417/https://deadline.com/2015/05/avengers-age-of-ultron-thursday-box-office-1201419080/ |archive-date=2015-05-02 |access-date=May 1, 2015 |website=Deadline Hollywood}} The film made $75.8 million during its opening day, achieving, at the time, the third-highest single and opening day tally of all time.{{cite web |date=2012-12-18 |title=Top Grossing Movies in a Single Day |url=https://boxofficemojo.com/alltime/days/?page=single&p=.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121219051007/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/days/?page=single&p=.htm |archive-date=2012-12-19 |access-date=July 23, 2012 |work=Box Office Mojo}} On July 23, 2012, it was announced that the film grossed $160.9 million for its debut weekend, which was the third-highest opening weekend ever, at the time, behind Marvel's The Avengers ($207.4 million) and Deathly Hallows – Part 2 ($169.2 million).{{cite news|url=https://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2012/07/23/the-dark-knight-rises-tops-grim-weekend-at-movies/?mod=google_news_blog|title='The Dark Knight Rises' Tops Grim Weekend at Movies|work=The Wall Street Journal|date=July 23, 2012|access-date=July 23, 2012|archive-date=July 27, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120727021809/http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2012/07/23/the-dark-knight-rises-tops-grim-weekend-at-movies/?mod=google_news_blog|url-status=live}} However, it did set an opening-weekend record for a 2D film (previously held by The Dark Knight).{{cite web |last=McClintock |first=Pamela |date=2012-07-23 |title=Box Office Report: 'Dark Knight Rises' Opens to Massive $160.9 Mil, But Shooting Takes Its Toll |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/dark-knight-box-office-numbers-shooting-353026 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120726015623/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/dark-knight-box-office-numbers-shooting-353026 |archive-date=2012-07-26 |access-date=2012-07-23 |website=The Hollywood Reporter}} The film also held the top spot at the box office for its second and third weekends.{{cite magazine |last=Smith |first=Grady |date=July 29, 2012 |title=Box office report: 'Dark Knight Rises' wins again with $64.1 million; nobody watches 'The Watch' |url=http://insidemovies.ew.com/2012/07/29/box-office-report-dark-knight-rises-watch-step-up-revolution/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924232820/https://ew.com/article/2012/07/29/box-office-report-dark-knight-rises-watch-step-up-revolution/ |archive-date=2015-09-24 |access-date=August 12, 2012 |magazine=Entertainment Weekly}}{{cite web |last=Subers |first=Ray |date=August 5, 2012 |title=Weekend Report: 'Dark Knight' Beats Up 'Recall' Redux |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=3495&p=.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210211163753/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/article/ed1081934852/ |archive-date=2021-02-11 |access-date=August 12, 2012 |work=Box Office Mojo}} In North America, it is the thirteenth-highest-grossing film, the third-highest-grossing 2012 film, as well as the sixth-highest-grossing superhero film and film based on comics. Box Office Mojo estimates that the film sold more than 55 million tickets in the US.{{cite web|access-date=May 31, 2016|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=batman3.htm&adjust_yr=1&p=.htm|title=The Dark Knight Rises (2012)|website=Box Office Mojo|archive-date=August 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160804220009/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=batman3.htm&adjust_yr=1&p=.htm|url-status=live}}

Outside North America, the film opened with $88.0 million from 7,173 theaters in just 17 markets. It was in first place at the box office outside North America for four consecutive weekends. Its three largest markets are the UK, Ireland and Malta ($90.3 million), where it is the highest-grossing superhero film,{{cite web|title=Around-the-World Roundup: 'Expendables 2' Flexes Muscles Overseas|url=https://boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=3508&p=.htm|first=Ray|last=Subers|date=August 28, 2012|website=Box Office Mojo|access-date=August 22, 2013|archive-date=October 23, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131023172648/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=3508&p=.htm|url-status=live}} China ($52.8 million) and Australia ($44.2 million).{{cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/releasegroup/gr808210949/|title=The Dark Knight Rises|website=Box Office Mojo|access-date=December 13, 2021|archive-date=December 13, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211213211432/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/releasegroup/gr808210949/|url-status=live}}

The Dark Knight Rises received positive reviews from critics.{{cite web|url=https://www.yahoo.com/movies/bp/early-reviews-dark-knight-rises-bane-high-marks-173841016.html|title=Early reviews: 'The Dark Knight Rises' and Bane get high marks|last=Doty|first=Meriah|work=Yahoo|date=July 16, 2012|access-date=March 4, 2016|archive-date=March 7, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307081332/https://www.yahoo.com/movies/bp/early-reviews-dark-knight-rises-bane-high-marks-173841016.html|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=http://www.ibtimes.com/dark-knight-rises-review-round-bloated-or-spectacular-723773|title=The 'Dark Knight Rises' Review Round-Up: 'Bloated' Or 'Spectacular'?|last=Costanza|first=Justine|work=International Business Times|date=July 17, 2012|access-date=March 4, 2016|archive-date=March 7, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307133159/http://www.ibtimes.com/dark-knight-rises-review-round-bloated-or-spectacular-723773|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://www.nme.com/filmandtv/news/the-dark-knight-rises-receives-overwhelmingly-positive/275513|title='The Dark Knight Rises' receives overwhelmingly positive early reviews|author=NME.COM|work=NME.COM|access-date=April 17, 2020|archive-date=March 5, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305150913/http://www.nme.com/filmandtv/news/the-dark-knight-rises-receives-overwhelmingly-positive/275513|url-status=live}} In a Metacritic review of year-end lists from 133 critics, 17 placed the film in their top ten.{{cite web |url=https://www.metacritic.com/feature/top-ten-lists-best-movies-of-2012 |title=Film Critic Top 10 Lists – Best of 2012 |website=Metacritic |access-date=February 21, 2016 |archive-date=May 11, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180511074641/http://www.metacritic.com/feature/top-ten-lists-best-movies-of-2012 |url-status=dead }} Film review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gave The Dark Knight Rises an approval rating of {{RT data|score}} based on {{RT data|count}} reviews, and a rating average of {{RT data|average}}. The web site's critical consensus reads, "The Dark Knight Rises is an ambitious, thoughtful, and potent action film that concludes Christopher Nolan's franchise in spectacular fashion."{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_dark_knight_rises|title=The Dark Knight Rises (2012)|website=Rotten Tomatoes|publisher=Fandango|access-date={{RT data|access date}}|archive-date=April 10, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190410182221/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_dark_knight_rises/|url-status=live}}{{RT data|edit}} Metacritic, another review aggregator, assigned the film a weighted average score of 78 out of 100, based on 45 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".{{cite web|url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-dark-knight-rises|title=The Dark Knight Rises Reviews|work=Metacritic|publisher=CBS Interactive|access-date=March 5, 2018|archive-date=July 27, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170727020547/http://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-dark-knight-rises|url-status=live}} CinemaScore reported that audiences gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale.{{cite news|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/box-office-report-dark-knight-rises-352762|title=Box Office Report: 'Dark Knight Rises' Now Headed For $165 Mil-$170 Mil Weekend|first=Pamela|last=McClintock|date=July 21, 2012|work=The Hollywood Reporter|access-date=May 6, 2013|archive-date=August 29, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240829052914/https://gum.criteo.com/syncframe?origin=publishertagids&topUrl=www.hollywoodreporter.com&gpp=DBABBg~BUoAAAJY.QA&gpp_sid=8|url-status=live}}

Robbie Collin of The Daily Telegraph granted the film a maximum score of five stars, stating that it is "a superhero film without a superhero" and praising Hardy's performance as well as the film's intricate plot and narrative.{{cite news|last=Collin|first=Robbie|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/filmreviews/9403551/Batman-The-Dark-Knight-Rises-first-review.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/filmreviews/9403551/Batman-The-Dark-Knight-Rises-first-review.html |archive-date=January 10, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Batman: The Dark Knight Rises, first review|work=The Daily Telegraph|date=July 16, 2012|access-date=December 28, 2012|location=London}}{{cbignore}} Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times thought the film was "potent, persuasive and hypnotic" and that it was "more than an exceptional superhero movie, it is masterful filmmaking by any standard."{{cite news|last=Turan|first=Kenneth|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-dark-knight-20120719,0,7473412.story|title=Review: 'The Dark Knight Rises' more than shines, and on many levels|work=Los Angeles Times|date=July 18, 2012|access-date=December 30, 2012|archive-date=March 6, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130306181108/http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-dark-knight-20120719,0,7473412.story|url-status=live}} Phil Villarreal from OK! Magazine gave the film a rating of 1.5 out of 4, calling it "the series' version of The Matrix Revolutions, The Godfather Part III or Caddyshack 2."{{cite web |url=https://okmagazine.com/lifestyle/philmguy-reviews-dark-knight-rises-starring-christian-bale-anne-hathaway/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220318050824/https://okmagazine.com/lifestyle/philmguy-reviews-dark-knight-rises-starring-christian-bale-anne-hathaway/ |url-status=live |archive-date=2022-03-18 |title=The PhilmGuy Reviews: 'The Dark Knight Rises' Starring Christian Bale & Anne Hathaway |work=OK! Magazine |date=2012-07-20 |access-date=2022-03-18}} The Playlists Todd Gilchrist wrote "A cinematic, cultural and personal triumph, The Dark Knight Rises is emotionally inspiring, aesthetically significant and critically important for America itself – as a mirror of both sober reflection and resilient hope."{{cite web|last=Gilchrist|first=Todd|url=http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/review-the-dark-knight-rises-comes-full-circle-in-visceral-invigorating-batman-finale-20120716#|title=Review: Visceral 'The Dark Knight Rises' Is A Cinematic, Cultural & Personal Triumph|work=The Playlist|date=July 16, 2012|access-date=December 30, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121020060722/http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/review-the-dark-knight-rises-comes-full-circle-in-visceral-invigorating-batman-finale-20120716|archive-date=October 20, 2012|url-status=dead}} IGN gave it a 9 out of 10, noting similarities in tone and theme to Batman Begins over the trilogy's second installment, The Dark Knight, but also describing Bane as "that bit less interesting to watch" than Ledger's Joker, despite praising his "menacing voice" and "body language-driven performance".{{cite web|last=Vejvoda|first=Jim|url=https://www.ign.com/articles/2012/07/16/the-dark-knight-rises-review|title=The Dark Knight Rises Review|work=IGN|date=July 15, 2012|access-date=December 28, 2012|archive-date=September 30, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170930223921/http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/07/16/the-dark-knight-rises-review|url-status=live}}

Film critic Richard Roeper gave the film an "A", calling it "a majestic, gorgeous, brutal and richly satisfying epic", and citing the final scenes of the picture as "the best five minutes of any film this year."{{cite web|last=Roeper|first=Richard|title=Dark Knight Rises|url=http://www.richardroeper.com/reviews/darkknightrises.aspx|access-date=September 16, 2012|archive-date=January 8, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180108071258/http://www.richardroeper.com/reviews/darkknightrises.aspx|url-status=dead}} The London Film Review gave the film a B and said "Nolan's film is a reminder that superheroes aren't merely a frivolous distraction, but an embodiment of our best selves."{{cite web|last=Shodipe|first=Abi|url=http://www.thelondonfilmreview.com/film-review/review-the-dark-knight-rises/|title=Review: The Dark Knight Rises|work=The London Film Review|date=July 22, 2012|access-date=December 28, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130203232023/http://www.thelondonfilmreview.com/film-review/review-the-dark-knight-rises/|archive-date=February 3, 2013}}

The Guardian scored the film four out of five stars, calling it a film of "granite, monolithic intensity", yet also calling it a "hammy, portentous affair". Andrew O'Hehir of Salon writes "if The Dark Knight Rises is a fascist film, it's a great fascist film, and arguably the biggest, darkest, most thrilling and disturbing and utterly balls-out spectacle ever created for the screen". Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film three out of four stars, stating "the film begins slowly with a murky plot and too many new characters, but builds to a sensational climax."

It was selected for the American Film Institute's top 10 films of 2012.{{cite web|url=https://www.afi.com/award/afi-awards-2012/|title=AFI Awards 2012|website=afi.com|language=en|access-date=November 3, 2020|archive-date=May 13, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210513011628/https://www.afi.com/award/afi-awards-2012/|url-status=live}}

CNN's Tom Charity said the film was a "disappointingly clunky and bombastic conclusion to a superior series" and called it Nolan's worst film. Anthony Lane of The New Yorker says that the "story is dense, overlong, and studded with references that will make sense only to those intimate with Nolan's previous excursions into Batmanhood".{{cite magazine|last=Tookey|first=Chris|url=https://www.newyorker.com/arts/reviews/film/the_dark_knight_rises_nolan|title=The Dark Knight Rises Review|magazine=The New Yorker|date=July 23, 2012|access-date=January 9, 2013|archive-date=January 28, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130128101546/http://www.newyorker.com/arts/reviews/film/the_dark_knight_rises_nolan|url-status=live}} In reaction to fan backlash to some of the negative reviews, Rotten Tomatoes chose to disable user commentary for the film leading up to its release.{{cite web |last=Eric |first=Steven H. |url=http://flapship.com/the-dark-knight-rises-and-why-batman-matters/ |title=The Dark Knight Rises and Why Batman Matters |work=Flapship.com |date=July 19, 2012 |access-date=July 21, 2012 |archive-date=July 18, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130718104731/http://flapship.com/the-dark-knight-rises-and-why-batman-matters/ |url-status=live }} Some fans had threatened violence against critics while others threatened to take down the websites of movie critics who had given the film a negative review.{{cite news|title=Negative Dark Knight reviews spark vicious backlash|work=CBC News|date=July 18, 2012|access-date=December 28, 2012|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/negative-dark-knight-reviews-spark-vicious-backlash-1.1192235|archive-date=July 19, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130719191136/http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/story/2012/07/18/dark-knight-review-uproar.html|url-status=live}}

Writing in Salon, David Sirota, a progressive political commentator,{{cite news|last=Sirota|first=David|title=Book World: 'The Uprising'|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2008/06/02/DI2008060202445.html|newspaper=Washington Post|date=June 4, 2008|access-date=September 15, 2017|archive-date=February 16, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170216151725/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2008/06/02/DI2008060202445.html|url-status=live}} compared The Dark Knight Rises and the game Call of Duty to 1980s popular culture reflecting the political period of the time, accusing them of perpetuating a conservative agenda: "Just as so many 1980s pop culture products reflected the spirit of the Reagan Revolution's conservative backlash, we are now seeing two blockbuster, genre-shaping products not-so-subtly reflect the Tea Party's rhetorical backlash to the powerful Occupy Wall Street zeitgeist." This supposed conservatism was also noted by Occupy Wall Street leader David Graeber who stated that the film "really is a piece of anti-Occupy propaganda".{{Cite web |last=Graeber |first=David |date=2012-10-08 |title=Super Position |url=https://thenewinquiry.com/super-position/ |access-date=2024-06-27 |website=The New Inquiry |language=en-US |archive-date=July 22, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240722162520/https://thenewinquiry.com/super-position/ |url-status=live }} An article in Variety reported Chuck Dixon, the cocreator of the Bane character, as saying that Bane is "far more akin to an Occupy Wall Street type if you're looking to cast him politically."{{cite news|last=Johnson|first=Ted|title=Blockbusters can't escape politics|url=https://variety.com/2012/film/news/blockbusters-can-t-escape-politics-1118056853/|newspaper=The Variety|date=July 21, 2012|access-date=July 11, 2020|archive-date=April 4, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404085851/https://variety.com/2012/film/news/blockbusters-can-t-escape-politics-1118056853/|url-status=live}}

Catherine Shoard of the center-left British publication The Guardian said the film "is a quite audaciously capitalist vision, radically conservative, radically vigilante, that advances a serious, stirring proposal that the wish-fulfilment of the wealthy is to be championed if they say they want to do good." In contrast, commentator Jonathan Chait opined in New York that "What passes for a right-wing movie these days is The Dark Knight Rises, which submits the rather modest premise that, irritating though the rich may be, actually killing them and taking all their stuff might be excessive."{{cite web|last=Chait|first=Jonathan|url=https://nymag.com/news/features/chait-liberal-movies-tv-2012-8/|title=The Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy Is on Your Screen|work=New York|date=August 19, 2012|access-date=December 28, 2012}} Writing in USA Today, Bryan Alexander called Bane "the ultimate occupier" and reported that Christian Bale was amazed that the script had "foreseen" the Occupy movement.{{cite news|last=Alexander|first=Bryan|title=Occupy movement is alive and well on big screen|url=https://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/story/2012-08-16/anti-wall-street-films-occupy-movement/57079746/1|newspaper=USA Today|date=August 17, 2012|access-date=September 15, 2017|archive-date=August 20, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120820233002/http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/story/2012-08-16/anti-wall-street-films-occupy-movement/57079746/1|url-status=live}}

Nolan has denied that the film criticizes the Occupy movement, and insists that none of his Batman films are intended to be political: "I've had as many conversations with people who have seen the film the other way round. We throw a lot of things against the wall to see if it sticks. We put a lot of interesting questions in the air, but that's simply a backdrop for the story. What we're really trying to do is show the cracks of society, show the conflicts that somebody would try to wedge open. We're going to get wildly different interpretations of what the film is supporting and not supporting, but it's not doing any of those things. It's just telling a story. If you're saying, 'Have you made a film that's supposed to be criticizing the Occupy Wall Street movement?' – well, obviously, that's not true."

Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek pointed out that the film was inspired by the French Revolution as portrayed by novelist Charles Dickens.{{cite web|url=https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/culture/2012/08/slavoj-%C5%BEi%C5%BEek-politics-batman|title=Slavoj Žižek: The politics of Batman|author=Žižek, Slavoj|publisher=New Statesman America|date=August 23, 2012|access-date=January 10, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120830205913/http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/culture/2012/08/slavoj-%C5%BEi%C5%BEek-politics-batman|archive-date=August 30, 2012}}

In 2011, Aidan Gillen's character in the film, CIA operative Bill Wilson, became the subject of an Internet meme popular among 4chan users known as "Baneposting", which references the dialogue between Wilson and Bane in the film's opening plane scene.{{cite news|url=https://www.dailydot.com/upstream/4chan-reddit-tom-hardy-batman-locke-ama/|title=4chan hilariously derailed Tom Hardy's AMA, and here's why|last=Alfonso|first=Fernando III|work=The Daily Dot|date=April 24, 2014|access-date=January 24, 2018|archive-date=September 10, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170910205910/https://www.dailydot.com/upstream/4chan-reddit-tom-hardy-batman-locke-ama/|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/trump-supporters-and-neo-nazis-are-using-secret-chat-rooms-t|title=Trump Supporters And Neo-Nazis Are Using Secret Chatrooms To Harass Shia LaBeouf|publisher=BuzzFeed|last=Broderick|first=Ryan|date=January 25, 2017|access-date=February 8, 2017|archive-date=June 13, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180613234940/https://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/trump-supporters-and-neo-nazis-are-using-secret-chat-rooms-t|url-status=live}}{{cite news|url=http://www.dailyedge.ie/aidan-gillen-baneposting-3211672-Jan2017/|title=Aidan Gillen has accidentally become part of a bizarre 'alt-right meme'|newspaper=The Daily Edge|date=January 29, 2017|access-date=February 8, 2017|archive-date=February 11, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170211025910/http://www.dailyedge.ie/aidan-gillen-baneposting-3211672-Jan2017/|url-status=live}}

{{Main|List of accolades received by The Dark Knight Rises}}

The film received numerous accolades, including a nomination for Special Visual Effects at the British Academy Film Awards,{{cite web | url=http://awards.bafta.org/award/2013/film | title=Film in 2013 | publisher=BAFTA | access-date=February 8, 2013 | archive-date=February 12, 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150212040725/http://awards.bafta.org/award/2013/film | url-status=live }} four nominations at the Critics' Choice Awards,{{cite news |last=Nordyke |first=Kimberly |date=December 11, 2012 |title='Lincoln' Leads Critics' Choice Movie Awards Nominees With Record-Setting 13 Mentions |work=The Hollywood Reporter |publisher=Prometheus Global Media |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/critics-choice-movie-awards-lincoln-400446?page=show |url-status=dead |access-date=December 16, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131105161120/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/critics-choice-movie-awards-lincoln-400446?page=show |archive-date=November 5, 2013}} two Satellite Awards,{{cite news |last=Kilday |first=Gregg |date=December 3, 2012 |title=Satellite Awards Nominates 10 Films for Best Motion Picture |work=The Hollywood Reporter |publisher=Prometheus Global Media |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/satellite-awards-nominates-10-films-396865 |access-date=December 7, 2012 |archive-date=December 7, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121207025034/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/satellite-awards-nominates-10-films-396865 |url-status=live }} five Saturn Awards (winning one),{{cite news |last1=Truitt |first1=Brian |date=February 20, 2013 |title='The Hobbit' leads Saturn Awards with nine nomination |work=USA Today |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2013/02/20/the-hobbit-saturn-awards-movie-tv-nominations/1933067/ |access-date=September 15, 2017 |archive-date=February 21, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130221044802/http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2013/02/20/the-hobbit-saturn-awards-movie-tv-nominations/1933067/ |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=Nominations for 39th annual Saturn Awards unveiled |url=http://social.entertainment.msn.com/movies/blogs/paralleluniverse-blogpost.aspx?post=4952c6d6-1266-4377-9ae6-ff6a00a5b59e |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130225153211/http://social.entertainment.msn.com/movies/blogs/paralleluniverse-blogpost.aspx?post=4952c6d6-1266-4377-9ae6-ff6a00a5b59e |archive-date=February 25, 2013}} and a Grammy Award.{{cite web |last=Brooks |first=Brian |date=December 6, 2012 |title='The Hunger Games' And 'The Muppets' Top Grammy Awards Movie Nominees |url=http://movieline.com/2012/12/06/grammy-nominations-movies/ |access-date=December 6, 2012 |work=Movieline |publisher=PMC |archive-date=June 20, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180620101532/http://movieline.com/2012/12/06/grammy-nominations-movies/ |url-status=live }} It also received nominations for five Teen Choice Awards (winning one),{{cite web |last=santilli |first=mj |date=May 22, 2013 |title=First Wave of Teen Choice Nominations Announced |url=http://www.mjsbigblog.com/first-wave-of-teen-choice-nominations-announced.htm |work=mjsbigblog |access-date=July 8, 2013 |archive-date=March 24, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230324193827/https://www.mjsbigblog.com/first-wave-of-teen-choice-nominations-announced.htm |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=Breaking News - The Second Wave of Nominees Heats Up "Teen Choice 2013" Airing Sunday, August 11, Live on FOX | TheFutonCritic.com |url=http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news/2013/07/01/the-second-wave-of-nominees-heats-up-teen-choice-2013-airing-sunday-august-11-live-on-fox-685300/20130701fox01/ |website=www.thefutoncritic.com |access-date=July 8, 2013 |archive-date=July 21, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200721211212/http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news/2013/07/01/the-second-wave-of-nominees-heats-up-teen-choice-2013-airing-sunday-august-11-live-on-fox-685300/20130701fox01/ |url-status=live }}[http://popwatch.ew.com/2013/08/11/2013-teen-choice-awards-winners/ 2013 Teen Choice Awards: Miley Cyrus, 'Glee,' 'Twilight' win big] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140723182215/http://popwatch.ew.com/2013/08/11/2013-teen-choice-awards-winners/ |date=July 23, 2014 }} Entertainment Weekly, Retrieved August 12, 2013 six MTV Movie Awards{{cite magazine |last=Warner |first=Denise |date=April 14, 2013 |title=2013 MTV Movie Awards winners list |url=http://insidemovies.ew.com/2013/04/14/mtv-movie-awards-winners-2013/ |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |access-date=April 15, 2013 |archive-date=November 9, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141109220905/http://insidemovies.ew.com/2013/04/14/mtv-movie-awards-winners-2013/ |url-status=live }} and a Kids Choice Award.{{cite web |title=KCA 2013 Nominees |url=http://www.nick.com/kids-choice-awards/2013/nominees/#favorite-female-buttkicker |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130518004840/http://www.nick.com/kids-choice-awards/2013/nominees/ |archive-date=May 18, 2013 |access-date=February 13, 2013 |publisher=nick.com}} It was named one of the top-ten films of 2012 by the American Film Institute.

Warner Bros. offered Bale and Nolan the chance to make a fourth film, but Bale declined so he could follow Nolan's wishes for a trilogy.{{cite web |url=https://torontosun.com/entertainment/movies/pure-bloody-excitement-christian-bale-puts-pedal-to-the-metal-in-ford-v-ferrari |title=Christian Bale talks 'Ford v Ferrari', the films that got away, Batman and his real dream job |work=Toronto Sun |last=Daniell |first=Mark |date=November 15, 2019 |access-date=January 22, 2025}}

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{{cite magazine|url=http://www.harpersbazaar.com/magazine/cover/anne-hathaway-interview|title=Anne Hathaway's New World: The Interview|magazine=Harper's Bazaar|date=June 27, 2011|access-date=August 7, 2011|archive-date=May 11, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120511023623/http://www.harpersbazaar.com/magazine/cover/anne-hathaway-interview|url-status=live}}

{{cite news|title='I'm the Joker': shooting suspect tells police|url=http://www.theage.com.au/world/im-the-joker-shooting-suspect-tells-police-20120721-22gdl.html|work=The Age|publisher=Fairfax Media|location=Australia|date=July 21, 2012|access-date=July 21, 2012|quote=When Holmes was arrested outside the cinema, he told police: 'I'm the Joker.' Ray Kelly, the commissioner of New York police, who was kept updated by his colleagues in Colorado, said: 'It clearly looks like a deranged individual. He had his hair painted red, he said he was the Joker, obviously the enemy of Batman.'|archive-date=July 22, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120722231732/http://www.theage.com.au/world/im-the-joker-shooting-suspect-tells-police-20120721-22gdl.html|url-status=live}}

{{cite news|title=12 killed at cinema in Colorado|url=http://www.news.com.au/news/killed-at-cinema-in-colorado/story-fnejlrpu-1226431482261|work=News.com.au|date=July 21, 2012|access-date=July 21, 2012|quote=In New York City, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said: 'It clearly looks like a deranged individual. He has his hair painted red. He said he was the Joker, obviously the enemy of Batman.'|archive-date=August 25, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120825064049/http://www.news.com.au/news/killed-at-cinema-in-colorado/story-fnejlrpu-1226431482261|url-status=dead}}

{{cite news|title=Gunman kills 14 at US Batman premiere|url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/shooting-injures-40-at-batman-screening/story-e6frg6so-1226431176128|work=The Australian|agency=Agence France-Presse|date=July 20, 2012|access-date=July 20, 2012|archive-date=July 21, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120721033758/http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/shooting-injures-40-at-batman-screening/story-e6frg6so-1226431176128|url-status=live}}

{{cite web|title=Aurora 'Dark Knight' Shooting Suspect Identified: James Holmes|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/aurora-dark-knight-shooting-suspect-identified-james-holmes/story?id=16818889|work=ABC News|date=July 20, 2012|access-date=July 20, 2012|archive-date=August 29, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240829052905/https://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/aurora-dark-knight-shooting-suspect-identified-james-holmes/story?id=16818889|url-status=live}}

{{cite web|url=http://www.9news.com/news/article/278707/71/Shooting-at-Aurora-movie-theater|title=10 dead in Aurora movie theater shooting|work=9News.com|date=July 20, 2012|access-date=July 20, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20121206023540/http://www.9news.com/news/article/278707/71/Shooting-at-Aurora-movie-theater|archive-date=December 6, 2012}}

{{cite news |url=http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/07/20/several-reportedly-dead-injured-after-shooting-at-colorado-movie-theater/ |title=Several reportedly dead, up to 20 injured after shooting at Colorado movie theater |work=Fox News |date=June 26, 2012 |access-date=July 20, 2012 |archive-date=August 10, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120810044345/http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/07/20/deadly-shooting-colorado-movie-theater-dark-knight-rises/ |url-status=dead }}

{{cite web|title=Mass shooting at Batman premiere in Colorado|url=http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/world/mass-shooting-at-batman-premiere-in-colorado/story-fnd134gw-1226431167005|publisher=News Corporation|work=Herald Sun|location=Australia|date=July 20, 2012|access-date=July 20, 2012}}

{{cite web |last=Leffler |first=Rebecca |url=http://entertainment.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/07/20/12855087-dark-knight-rises-paris-premiere-scrapped-following-us-shootings?lite |title='Dark Knight Rises' Paris premiere scrapped following U.S. shootings |work=MSNBC |date=July 20, 2012 |access-date=July 21, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120722194729/http://entertainment.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/07/20/12855087-dark-knight-rises-paris-premiere-scrapped-following-us-shootings?lite |archive-date=July 22, 2012 }}

{{cite web |url=http://news-briefs.ew.com/2012/07/21/warner-bros-cancels-dark-knight-rises-premieres-mexico-and-japan/ |title=Warner Bros. cancels 'Dark Knight Rises' premieres in Mexico and Japan |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |date=July 21, 2012 |access-date=July 21, 2012 |archive-date=July 22, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120722202219/http://news-briefs.ew.com/2012/07/21/warner-bros-cancels-dark-knight-rises-premieres-mexico-and-japan/ |url-status=dead }}

{{cite web | url = http://yle.fi/uutiset/batman-elokuvan_markkinointikampanja_hyllytettiin_suomessa/6225061 | last = Blencowe | first = Annette | title = Batman-elokuvan nettikampanja keskeytettiin Suomessa | work = Yle.fi | date = July 20, 2012 | access-date = July 20, 2012 | language = fi | trans-title = Batman movie online campaign was suspended in Finland | archive-date = March 4, 2016 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160304040613/http://yle.fi/uutiset/batman-elokuvan_markkinointikampanja_hyllytettiin_suomessa/6225061 | url-status = live }}

{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/christopher-nolan-dark-knight-rises-isn-t-political-20120720|title=Christopher Nolan: 'Dark Knight Rises' Isn't Political|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=July 20, 2012|access-date=December 28, 2012|archive-date=September 8, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150908174807/http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/christopher-nolan-dark-knight-rises-isn-t-political-20120720|url-status=dead}}

{{cite news|title=In Wake of Shooting, 'The Dark Knight Rises' Won't Report Early Box Office Figures|url=https://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2012/07/21/in-wake-of-shooting-the-dark-knight-rises-wont-report-early-box-office-figures/|access-date=July 21, 2012|newspaper=The Wall St. Journal|date=July 21, 2012|archive-date=July 21, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120721183857/http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2012/07/21/in-wake-of-shooting-the-dark-knight-rises-wont-report-early-box-office-figures/|url-status=live}}

{{cite web|title='Dark Knight Rises' has estimated $75M Friday despite shootings|url=http://movies.msn.com/movies/article.aspx?news=744863|access-date=July 21, 2012|work=MSN Entertainment|date=July 21, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120723222726/http://movies.msn.com/movies/article.aspx?news=744863|archive-date=July 23, 2012|url-status=dead}}

{{cite news|last=Ebert|first=Roger|url=http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20120717%2FREVIEWS%2F120719981|title=The Dark Knight Rises|work=The Chicago Sun-Times|date=July 17, 2012|access-date=July 18, 2012|archive-date=March 15, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130315162947/http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20120717%2FREVIEWS%2F120719981|url-status=dead}}

{{cite news|title=Box Office Report: 'Dark Knight Rises' Now Headed For $165 Mil-$170 Mil Weekend|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/box-office-report-dark-knight-rises-352762/|access-date=July 21, 2012|magazine=The Hollywood Reporter|date=July 21, 2012|first=Pamela|last=McClintock|archive-date=July 22, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120722063147/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/box-office-report-dark-knight-rises-352762|url-status=live}}

{{cite news|last=Charity|first=Tom|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2012/07/19/showbiz/movies/dark-knight-rises-review-charity/index.html|title=Review: 'Dark Knight Rises' disappointingly clunky, bombastic|work=CNN|date=July 19, 2012|access-date=July 20, 2012|archive-date=July 20, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120720230622/http://edition.cnn.com/2012/07/19/showbiz/movies/dark-knight-rises-review-charity/index.html|url-status=live}}

{{cite web|title='Dark Knight Rises' still on track for $165 million opening weekend|url=http://entertainment.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/07/21/12876701-dark-knight-rises-still-on-track-for-165-million-opening-weekend?chromedomain=todayentertainment|access-date=July 21, 2012|work=MSNBC|date=July 21, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120723214747/http://entertainment.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/07/21/12876701-dark-knight-rises-still-on-track-for-165-million-opening-weekend?chromedomain=todayentertainment|archive-date=July 23, 2012}}

{{cite news|last=Shoard|first=Catherine|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2012/jul/17/dark-knight-rises-capitalist-superhero|title=Dark Knight Rises: fancy a capitalist caped crusader as your superhero?|work=The Guardian|publisher=Guardian News and Media|date=July 17, 2012|access-date=December 28, 2012|location=London|archive-date=August 29, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240829052905/https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2012/jul/17/dark-knight-rises-capitalist-superhero|url-status=live}}

{{cite web|last=Sirota|first=David|url=http://www.salon.com/2012/07/18/batman_hates_the_99_percent/|title=Batman hates the 99 Percent|work=Salon|date=July 19, 2012|access-date=December 28, 2012|archive-date=December 27, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121227200923/http://www.salon.com/2012/07/18/batman_hates_the_99_percent/|url-status=live}}

{{cite web|url=http://www.salon.com/2012/07/18/the_dark_knight_rises_christopher_nolans_evil_masterpiece/|title="The Dark Knight Rises": Christopher Nolan's evil masterpiece|work=Salon|date=July 18, 2012|access-date=July 19, 2012|archive-date=July 18, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120718230341/https://www.salon.com/2012/07/18/the_dark_knight_rises_christopher_nolans_evil_masterpiece/|url-status=live}}

{{cite news|last=Brooks|first=Xan|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/jul/16/the-dark-knight-rises-first-review|title=The Dark Knight Rises – the first review|work=The Guardian|publisher=Guardian News and Media|date=July 16, 2012|access-date=December 28, 2012|location=London|archive-date=August 29, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240829052906/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/jul/16/the-dark-knight-rises-first-review|url-status=live}}

{{cite news|last=Finke|first=Nikke|title='Dark Knight Rises' Midnight Box Office: Batman Film Earns $30 Million From Midnight Screenings|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/20/dark-knight-rises-midnight-box-office_n_1689924.html|access-date=July 20, 2012|work=The Huffington Post|date=July 20, 2012|archive-date=July 22, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120722052234/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/20/dark-knight-rises-midnight-box-office_n_1689924.html|url-status=live}}

{{cite web|url=http://if.com.au/2012/07/11/article/IMAX-Darling-Harbour-sets-record-with-The-Dark-Knight-Rises-pre-sales/VKHFFPMCQF.html|title=IMAX Darling Harbour sets record with The Dark Knight Rises pre-sales|work=Inside Film Australia|date=July 11, 2012|access-date=December 28, 2012|archive-date=December 15, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141215233235/http://if.com.au/2012/07/11/article/IMAX-Darling-Harbour-sets-record-with-The-Dark-Knight-Rises-pre-sales/VKHFFPMCQF.html|url-status=live}}

{{cite news|url=http://herocomplex.latimes.com/2011/12/29/dark-knight-rises-star-anne-hathaway-gotham-city-is-full-of-grace/?dlvrit=63378|title='Dark Knight Rises' star Anne Hathaway: 'Gotham City is full of grace'|last=Boucher|first=Geoff|date=December 29, 2011|access-date=December 31, 2011|work=Los Angeles Times|archive-date=May 9, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120509132224/http://herocomplex.latimes.com/2011/12/29/dark-knight-rises-star-anne-hathaway-gotham-city-is-full-of-grace/|url-status=live}}

{{cite news|url=https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a109540/batman-scribe-rules-out-penguin-catwoman/|title='Batman' scribe rules out Penguin, Catwoman|last=Reynolds|first=Simon|date=July 10, 2008|access-date=September 1, 2021|work=Digital Spy|archive-date=September 1, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210901220232/https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a109540/batman-scribe-rules-out-penguin-catwoman/|url-status=live}}

{{cite news |url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocomplex/2010/03/christopher-nolan-takes-flight-with-superman-we-have-a-fantastic-story-1.html |title=Christopher Nolan takes flight with Superman: 'We have a fantastic story' [Updated] |last=Boucher |first=Geoff |date=March 10, 2010 |work=Los Angeles Times |access-date=July 5, 2010 |archive-date=July 4, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100704194608/http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocomplex/2010/03/christopher-nolan-takes-flight-with-superman-we-have-a-fantastic-story-1.html |url-status=live }}

{{cite news|url=http://herocomplex.latimes.com/2011/12/12/dark-knight-rises-christopher-nolan-opens-up-about-bane-choice/|title='Dark Knight Rises': Christopher Nolan opens up about Bane choice|work=Los Angeles Times|date=December 12, 2011|access-date=January 8, 2012|archive-date=January 7, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120107222447/http://herocomplex.latimes.com/2011/12/12/dark-knight-rises-christopher-nolan-opens-up-about-bane-choice/|url-status=live}}

{{cite web|last=Lang|first=Brent|title=Box Office: 'Dark Knight Rises' Scores Second Highest Grossing Midnight Opening in History|url=https://www.thewrap.com/movies/article/box-office-dark-knight-rises-scores-second-highest-grossing-midnight-opening-history-48591|access-date=December 24, 2012|work=The Wrap|date=July 20, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121113102524/http://www.thewrap.com/movies/article/box-office-dark-knight-rises-scores-second-highest-grossing-midnight-opening-history-48591|url-status=live|archive-date=November 13, 2012}}

{{cite news|last=Fritz|first=Ben|title='Dark Knight Rises' collects $30.6 million from midnight screenings|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-midnight-dark-knight-rises-20120720,0,2133469.story|access-date=July 20, 2012|work=Los Angeles Times|date=July 20, 2012|archive-date=July 21, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120721080948/http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-midnight-dark-knight-rises-20120720,0,2133469.story|url-status=live}}

{{cite news|url=https://variety.com/2011/film/news/mayor-of-gotham-returns-to-dark-knight-1118035522/|title=Mayor of Gotham returns to 'Dark Knight'|last=Sneider|first=Jeff|work=Variety|date=April 15, 2011|access-date=August 9, 2011|archive-date=August 29, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240829053048/https://variety.com/2011/film/news/mayor-of-gotham-returns-to-dark-knight-1118035522/|url-status=live}}

{{cite web|title='Dark Knight Rises' Christian Bale talks Bruce Wayne plot|url=https://www.nme.com/filmandtv/news/dark-knight-rises-christian-bale-talks-bruce-wayne/269660|work=NME|date=May 28, 2012|access-date=May 28, 2012|archive-date=May 31, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120531025553/http://www.nme.com/filmandtv/news/dark-knight-rises-christian-bale-talks-bruce-wayne/269660|url-status=live}}

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