10 Days till Dark Knight Rises

Well, we are now less than 10 days away till The Dark Knight Rises hits theaters and IMAX. It's that time to get your tickets for the midnight showing, or the showing that weekend. I would suggest you get your tickets soon because you never know, they could be sold out soon, especially for a midnight showing. As for me, I am going to a 3:30 am showing on Friday morning, that's right, it is at an IMAX. In my opinion, this will be a massive movie, and the way to experience it the first time around is to go to the biggest screen possible to experience it. So I will drive about 45 minutes to get up to my nearest IMAX theater to see this, to honor the huge experience. I recommend anyone of you to see it on the IMAX. Why not finish this epic trilogy by seeing it on the biggest screen possible.

Well, besides that, this has been the one movie that everyone has been looking forward to since the end of The Dark Knight 4 years ago. To prepare for this grand experience, here is a list of questions to think about and to get one speculating before entering the theater. As well, I will share some thoughts on some of the questions. Feel free to share your ideas as well, I am open for possibilities, but if any of you have already seen the movie for some odd reason, please don't spoil.

Is Batman still being hunted and considered a criminal? I am pretty sure it’s safe to assume so. At the end of The Dark Knight, Harvey Dent was killed after going around killing cops that were responsible for the death of his girlfriend, and Batman decided to keep his madness a secret and put the responsibilities of the deaths on his soldiers. It is pretty safe to assume that Batman basically went into hiding, because there is an 8 year gap between the events of The Dark Knight and this new movie. If you have watched the trailers, which I am sure you have, you will have witnessed an older Bruce Wayne who seems a little worn out, and is spotted with a cane. Why is he worn out, what has happened?

Who is John Blake? To give you an idea who this is, it is a new cop assigned to Gordon’s unit, he is played by Joseph Gordon-Leavitt. There seems to be more to him than we might originally think. There are rumors going on that he could possibly step in for Batman after… (so much speculation that Batman could die, or his back could be broken)

Will Dent’s true demise come to light? We all know that Harvey dent turned into a fallen hero at the end of The Dark Knight, but of course that was hidden from the public, except for Batman and Commissioner Gordon, and possibly Alfred and Fox. Will the truth come out? Will everyone come to see Batman as a true hero?

What happened to Lucius Fox? At the end of The Dark Knight, the results of that device that was used to track the Joker are not very clear, did it stay at Wayne Enterprises for a while or is it still there, or is it now at the Bat Cave or has it been destroyed. We saw Lucius type in his name like Batman asked him to, but did Fox quit after that or did they destroy it? Obviously Fox came back to Wayne Enterprises seeing that he is back, but did differences have to be resolved, or is everything OK?????

What is Bane’s goal? Who is Bane? We have seen plenty of him in the trailers, but honestly, we don’t know very much about him. He’s big, he wears a mask, and we have a hard time understanding him. But why does he want to terrorize Gotham? Why is he after Batman? We found out the goals from the previous films for each foe, Ra’s al Ghul found Gotham corrupted and therefore he felt he needed to destroy it and rebuild it. The Joker want to cause chaos and bring out the insanity of the public. What would Bane want to do? There is obviously some sort of revolution going on. But what is the purpose. Each villain has a purpose, a reason for doing what they are doing, and we will have to wait to find out what it is.

How does Catwoman play in all this? We have Catwoman in this new movie, but why is she in it, how does she become Catwoman. Is she a good cat or bad cat? She is Selina Kyle who is an employer over at Wayne Mansion, I think a maid of some sort. But I have also heard rumors that she is also working for Bane, and don’t know exactly what she is doing for him and how she got involved. But of course we will find out when the movie arrives.

Will the Joker make an appearance? The answer is no, he will not be in this movie, Christopher Nolan has confirmed this. He did not want to do anything to corrupt Heath Ledger’s final performance, it was a wonderful performance and obviously gave it his all, so therefore I do not feel it would be right to bring the Joker back either with a different actor, and of course Christopher Nolan did not shoot anything with Heath Ledger for a future movie before his passing.

Will the Scarecrow make an appearance? There has been a rumor that he will, the actor Cillian Murphy has been spotted on the set. What kind of role will he play in this new movie if he is in it? Will any other characters from the former movies make an appearance? Obviously Rachel Dawes won’t as she is dead, and anyone else that was killed in The Dark Knight. But wait, Ra’s al Ghul is rumored to be in the movie, but of course he died at the end of Batman Begins. Possibly a flashback, and that means that the League of Shadows will play a role in this movie, but what would that role be?

Will the Valcone crime family play a role in this movie? They were fairly big in the other movies, so do they play a role in this one, or is it other criminals? If we remember in The Dark Knight, the Valcone crime family had been killed by The Joker, and also Harvey Dent (Two Face at that point) killed some of the members of the crime family, including Muroni and one of his planted cops. But of course someone from the crime family could step up and recreate the entire business.

What new toys will we be introduced to in The Dark Knight Rises? The one thing we are already aware of is The Bat, the famous copter that Batman flies around, is it more slick than the Batpod, which I think is amazing, I am not ready to answer that, but I want one, maybe more than the Batpod. That would make getting to places far away much easier, maybe a trip to Hawaii would be more affordable than paying for a plane ticket. But anyway, that is one of the big toys, there are bound to be really cool toys besides that. We will have to wait and see what Lucius has up his sleeve.

Will Batman die at the end of the movie? Predicting a death of a main character, yes I am, Christopher Nolan has stated that this movie will be the last movie of the Batman world that Christopher Nolan has created. In order for that to happen, something dramatic would have to happen at the end. That event could be the death of Bruce Wayne. It has been stated at the beginning of Batman Begins that if Bruce Wayne devoted himself to an ideal that he could be more than just a man, that he could become a legend. Even Bruce Wayne on his way back to Gotham, that he couldn’t fight the injustice of Gotham as Bruce Wayne but that he would need to become something else to do so, a symbol of hope.

Now here is another big question that has been discussed since the release of The Avengers. Could this possibly beat the records that The Avengers has set? I am going to say yes, there is a very strong possibility that it won’t, but honestly, many predicted when Dark Knight came out four years ago that it wouldn’t beat any records, but of course it had set many new records, which were enormous at the time, and are still huge today. So I could see the same results with this movie. Therefore, I will predict that it will surpass Avengers monstrous record.

Now feel free to share speculation.

Plus, here is a new TV spot as of today.