MTV's Kevin Sullivan is reporting that the run time for Christopher Nolan's third and final Batman film is clocking in at four hours!
"The Dark Knight Rises is real and finished, presumably in the form of a four-hour rough cut. There's no official word on the reaction to the screening, as of yet."
So what you say? You might be saying that isn't unusual for a first cut of a film, they'll just chop it down to two hours or two and half hours like most films, but that isn't Nolan's style. During a special screening of 2008's
The Dark Knight Christopher Nolan revealed that his first cut of the masterpiece was only fifteen minutes longer than the final cut of 152 minutes. So, there is a good chance that
The Dark Knight Rises which is currently 240 minutes long, might not be getting too much of a haircut. We could be looking at run time of over three hours. Hell, if this was a Harry Potter production they would've cut this up into three films.
The Dark Knight Rises hits theaters July 20th 2012 and stars Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne/Batman, Michael Caine as Alfred Pennyworth, Gary Oldman as Jim Gordon, Tom Hardy as Bane, Anne Hathaway as Selina Kyle, Joseph Gordon-Levitt as John Blake and Marion Cotillard as Miranda Tate.
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