April Fools: The Dark Knight Rises will NOT be released in 2012

This is a very sad day for the fans of Nolan’s Batman franchise. As you may have heard, Christopher Nolan’s first cut of The Dark Knight Rises was presented to Warner Bros. studio executives (See here) so that Nolan may fine-tune the film. What has recently come to the public’s attention is the criticism of these executives and how it has affected the film’s release.

It turns out that Warner Bros. execs had a few ridiculous requests. Taking a public poll they found that a certain demographic was interested in seeing The Riddler in the film. Based on that poll, they wanted Nolan to use footage from Joel Schumacher’s Batman Forever to include Jim Carrey’s version of The Riddler. Nolan was outraged and went to his legal team to file an injunction that prevents the release of the film until Warner Bros. agrees to keeping Jim Carrey out of the film. Below is a statement released from Christopher Nolan’s legal team.

Our client was given creative control over the making of this film in return for his agreement to work on it. Although Warner Bros. has funded the project, we are at a legal stalemate due to the details of Christopher Nolan’s contract stipulations. We are working diligently to ensure that the public gets to see this masterpiece of a film but Mr. Nolan wants the public to see it as he intended. Warner Bros. has chosen to ignore any type of settlement so it is unlikely that the public will see the film this year.

This is very sad news. As a fan myself I was looking forward to this film for a long time and it looks like there’s a chance that it may never see the light of day.

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First and foremost, Ryan Brown is a fan. He has been an avid fan of both the theater and cinema since an early age and his passion for both has been continually growing ever since. When dissecting a film, he focuses on all elements of film-making including some fan/cult factors. He believes that character development is the foundation of a good film and usually starts his analysis of a film from there moving forward. His writing style may be influenced by his background of narrative and argumentative studies in the subject, but he tends to enjoy a more conversational style to better interact with the readers, unlike some other pretentious and pompous writers.

10 thoughts on “April Fools: The Dark Knight Rises will NOT be released in 2012

  1. You actually screwed this joke up yourself, because I actually believed it until I saw the Riddler quote, that’s when I realised it was BULL. Then again, I forgot it was April 1st, so maybe that’s why you had me for a while.

  2. I hadn't been here for a while, but figured I'd pop up to see what your big April Fools joke was this year. And you certainly didn't disappoint. :) Reading the headline I knew this had to be fake. And sure enough there is no doubt it is. But nice one.

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