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No idea who made the above image (click for a larger version), but it's pretty amusing. As is this, from the How It Should Have Ended people:



And this story talks about the upcoming slate of DC animated features. Expect a version of Batman: Year One accompanied by a Catwoman short. All-Star Superman just came out, and Green Lanern: Emerald Knights is next in July, so maybe we'll see Year One near the end of this year or in early 2012.

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No idea who made the poster above, but it's the best Bane one yet by far. Two bits of news:

• Tom Hardy is going to bulk up to play Bane. For those like me who don't know what a stone is, his current weight of 12 stone is 168lbs/76kg, his goal of 14 stone is 196lbs/89kg.
• E Online has five things we think we know about The Dark Knight Rises.

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I got sick this week and now I'm behind on a bunch of news that happened:

• Above might be the first shot from the production of The Dark Knight Rises.
• Marion Cotillard looks like she will be in this too, though nobody seems to have any idea what part she will be playing. If she and Tom Hardy are joined by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, it may turn out that The Dark Knight Rises is actually in an Inception dream world.
• Liam Neeson made it clear that he is not reprising Ra's al-Ghul, but he would be open to coming back to the role some time in the future.
• And composer Hans Zimmer seems to be confident he can deliver another quality score.

Fake Rumor of the Day

There was a rumor today that Joseph Gordon-Levitt would be playing Alberto Falcone (a major character in The Long Halloween) in The Dark Knight Rises, but the rumor was started by someone at IGN speculating at a role JGL could play, which people then took to mean that he had inside info (the article at slashfilm has this tidbit as an "update" buried in the middle for some reason).

Early Shooting Starting?

According to Batman on Film, the first film for The Dark Knight Rises will be taken in New York this week, shot from a helicopter to get snowy city footage.

Two Doubtful Rumors

I don't really buy into either of these, but here goes:

• Ain't It Cool News points to this Michigan news report that claims locations are being scouted in the area for "a hideout for Batman sidekick Robin." I have to doubt this, since we've previously heard that the folks involved don't like the idea of Robin in these movies.
• There's also a rumor that Robin Williams is being considered to play Hugo Strange. Considering how well the Bane and Catwoman casting was kept under wraps, I'm pretty much going to doubt everything at this point.

Robin image from here

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A few random things:

• As suggested by a commenter, I've watched Bronson, a movie starring soon-to-be-Bane Tom Hardy as a notorious British prisoner. I did not care for it, but Hardy is excellent in it. He's also bulked up and pretty terrifying, so having seen this it's much easier to imagine him as Bane. But he'll have to lose the mustache.
• Someone got married with a Joker from The Dark Knight themed wedding cake. It's a cool cake, but I wonder how it reflects on the couple psychologically.
• MTV's Splash Page is having some fun with the Joseph Gordon-Levitt rumors by making a gallery of photoshops with him in different roles.

JGL in DKR?

Deadline is reporting that Joseph Gordon-Levitt (right) is in negotiations to join the cast of The Dark Knight Rises in an unspecified role. He most recently co-starred with Tom Hardy (left) in Inception, and as we know, Christopher Nolan likes to work with familiar actors.