When it was announced some months ago that Tom Hardy would be Bane it came as a truly unexpected surprise. After rumors and speculation of every other villain in The Dark Knight's rouge gallery, Bane would be the "official" villain that WB and Chris Nolan would confirm. However, something just hit me after putting a few more pieces of a possibly unnoticed puzzle together.
Besides the obvious stuff like Tom Hardy's size and ethnicity, what also hit me were the extreme measures that Nolan and WB have taken to make sure that the script for the film is not seen. Then came the report regarding the plot for TDKR that involves the villain that everybody already had Tom Hardy signed up for, Hugo Strange. So could Tom actually be playing Dr. Hugo Strange? A part of me thinks so, and I'm pretty sure that moviegoers won't know what's going on until sometime this summer or when the movie releases.
Now while I don't know this for sure, all the signs do somewhat point in that direction. Hardy definitely looks like Strange and Nolan did say once he would not use Bane. Then you have Gary Oldman's comments regarding an "old" villain being featured in the film. I think that Nolan, in an attempt to keep the element of surprise, is giving all of us a bunch of false info. Just a quick thought I wanted to share, I guess we will all find out July 2012.