Batman Begins ja The Dark Knight olivat isoja menestyksiä, joten kolmannelta ja viimeiseltä elokuvalta The Dark Knight Rises odotettiin paljon. Ja ihan kohtuullisesti siinä tekijät onnistuivat.
Happy Sad Confused -podcastssa tuottaja David S. Goyer paljasti, että Warner Bros. olisi halunnut ohjaaja Christopher Nolanin palkkaavan The Riddlerin rooliin Leonardo DiCaprion, ja näin viimeisen elokuvan keskeisin pahis olisi ollut The Riddler. Lopulta Tom Hardy oli Bane-pahiksena.
"We had all these pitches. I remember at The Dark Knight premiere, the head of Warner Bros. said, 'You gotta do the Riddler. You got to tell Chris, Leo as The Riddler,'"
"I had a sense - with the Spider-Man movies or when superhero movies started getting made and you had sequels - that the studios would always say 'OK, who's our villain of the next movie going to be? And let's build a movie around that.' Chris was staunchly against that... let's figure out what story we want to tell first, and what we thematically want to explore with Bruce. Then let's figure out a villain that fits the story."
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