Not too long ago Gary Oldman experienced that same sort of primitive and primal fear we all go through as children when we have to show our lack luster report card to our ominously quiet parents. For a brief time Gary Oldman thought he had misplaced his copy of the script for "The Dark Knight Rises", and one can only imagine the dreadful thoughts that raced through his mind during that frightful time. No doubt that the most horrible thing that Mr. Oldman could conceive was that details of the script would end up on the mother of all nerd blogs...COMICBOOKMOVIE.com...and that daddy Nolan would severely reprimand him.
"I was in a panic for 20 minutes. I thought, 'Where the hell have I put it?' It had my name on it. They would have killed me," Oldman told BBC News.
It turned out that he had left the script in his hotel room. He explained: "I'd gone out for dinner, and I had put it in the room between the mattress and the bed, because I couldn't scrunch it into the safe.
"I was half-thinking about something else and shoved it there."
The actor, who will play Commissioner Gordon in the film, spoke of the efforts made to keep the story under wraps: "When he [Nolan] gives the script out, it doesn't have the ending. Characters sometimes change, or their names change. And you have to go to the studio to read it."
Mr. Oldman, you should thank the powers that be that James Cameron wasn't the director this movie, you might just have had a heart attack in that 20 minutes. You got off lucky sir.