RUMOR: 'The Dark Knight Rises' Filming At Osterly Park?

New Wayne Manor? Meh, I'm much more interested in what they do with those foundations they were going to improve... ya know, in the south east corner :)

What's interesting is that we haven't heard if Bale is trying to get his weight back to what it was during Batman Begins.... in fact, he looked like he lost most of it during TDK...

@blacksands i do remember readin an article on here where they said that bale would be getting back to the size he was in begins...cant remember which article it was but he is goin to be bulkier than in dark knight.

Whoa... Darkmatter.... spam much dude? LOL

@blacksands it said in an article that they had up on this site a couple weeks ago that bale is starting to train to get to the shape of an olympic athlete. so he should be looking pretty damn good in TDKR

@everyone - agreed that Batman should be at least as big as he was in Begins. You gotta give Bale credit tho -His weight yo-yo's more that Oprah. There's only so many times the human body can go from ultra muscled to anorexic and back again - at least in the comics Bruce Wayne's got a consistent weight and doesn't have to deal with that sh*t

As far as the voice, I think Bale realizes that everyone reacted badly to his voice in TDK. I'll bet you anything he tones it down a little and doesn't go overboard like that in Rises. Hope so because he's without a doubt my favorite Bruce Wayne, and that voice is the only thing keeping him from being my favorite Batman.

The full BatCave is going to be awesome. I just hope Nolan doesnt try to get too "realistic" with it. Let's go for the giant monitor and everything!!!

@mbembet: seriously??? comic book movies, no matter how real you wish it to be even in the movie-realism being played out is pure FANTASY! especially batman. think before you mouth off.

BlackSands Agreed. I don't like the little ears, the facial part of the mask and the general shape. Kicks ass though the way they addeed the neck piece for head turning. Call me insane, but the Burton/Schumacher masks would look awesome on Bale with the comic-like ears. And the big screen computer isn't too far from realism. The army uses all types of large view screens and digital maps. That fits right into the applied sciences department where Fox works. So, it's realistic as well as comicbook kick-ass.

mbembet Nolan has definitely set the standard and outclassed the average CBM. "Nolanized" is going to be an actual term now.

@RexLaboro and WellDrawn (comments 1 and 2)....i agree completely...my exact thoughts.


as far as Bats coming full circle and coming back to Begins type stuff...i hope they make his voice like it was is Begins...its not nearly over-the-top in Begins as it is in TDK.

batman realistic,if he actually went into a cave full of bats he'd be dead from breathing in the fumes of bat droppings.

batman makes all other comic book movies look like cartoons,at least most other comic book movies feel like comic books.

you gotta love how realistic his throat cancer voice sounds,it does really sound like his got cancer.

what his not aiming for that,his trying to sound scary.

@guerillas: Yeah, that's exactly my thoughts. This article sounds like a lump of shit. Like he's trying to create speculation for nothing. I doubt this is real. Who takes a jog around a place like that? PLUS what kind of crew member would tell some fool jogging that this is a Batman movie???

I'm calling Comedian03 out on a bullshit bluff, lol.

@Smugtroll, um, nope... I can see very well it was not enhanced even to the casual observer. Bale was having a hard time forcing his voice that way and it shows with every intake and exhale -- judging from how much he purses his lips and the way he tries to make it sound past his teeth doesn't look for a scary Batman. Most of the time, it made him look like he ran a decathlon non-stop. The way Keaton acted as Bats was a lot more convincing and his low monotone, almost flat inflection in delivering his lines as Bats made him a hell of a lot scarier than Bale. Frankly, Batman shouldn't even SAY much at all.. and when he DOES talk, it's delivered in monotone - or like it should be in the 1990's Batman animated series.

Had the voice been modulated, his facial features should have been relaxed and controlled. For all his technology, he somehow forgot to make something to disguise his own stupid voice?? How's that logic coming up for realism, Nolan? I even posted a vid a few posts above showing how it is possible with even today's tech to alter a voice - and one of them is a damn toy for crying out loud. It should be child's play to incorporate that into the Batsuit. Hell, even Smallville got one thing right in disguising Green Arrow's voice when in costume and that was a hell of a surprise for me when they thought of that one and Nolan didn't. What was his excuse that a semi-crap show like that thought of it?

There was a scene in TDK where he spoke to Gordon and it showed on Oldman's face that he was trying to hold it in when Bale was having a hard time emoting in the Bat-throat-cancer-voice during the end of the film before he took of in his bike.

"..The MILLIONS of other details he was trying to get right.." -- that should have been one of them and the most obvious one at that. Every time I watched TDK, it rankled every time I hear that voice. I got over it, but from a technical standpoint, it annoyed me that of all the things Nolan did (it was a VERY easy target to begin with) - perfectionist that he was - he forgot something as simple as that regardless of how good Bale was at acting - is no excuse - when he has Bats with a TON of gadgets that include a taser built-in into his mask to prevent morons from taking it off and "sonar" lens that come down on his eyes. It was an obvious pick amongst the litter of holes he still had in the movie which was slightly negligible whilst that was the most glaring.

We can discuss this til we're all blue in the face but nothing can diminish that fact. We can only hope that for the finale of Nolan's Batman trilogy; EVERYTHING will be done right.