So yeah, I’d consider the details to follow as significantly spoilery enough for some people to care and possibly avoid. They certainly confirm suspicions about certain villainous relationships, and may start to shoot holes in carefully crafted fan theories, and if it’s the case that you have a favorite one and would like to hang onto it for a little while longer, then step away.
The details come from Anne Hathaway talking to LA Times’ Hero Complex blog, as well as from a scene description they’re letting loose from a set visit earlier this year. The important bits break down to the confirmation that Catwoman is, at least for some amount of time, in some degree of collaboration with Bane. This is made evident by the scene description below (which also suggests Bruce Wayne’s identity is wide open). It also suggests that Bane has definitely upped the ante from the Joker’s terrorist stunts to outright warfare…
Gotham City is a war zone. A ruthless madman named Bane has ripped away any sense of security and the citizens, haggard and clutching suitcases with refugee anxiety, sit behind barbed wire waiting to see what will blow up next. A hooded prisoner is dragged in – it’s Bruce Wayne, one of Gotham’s most famous faces – but the eyes of the crowd go instead to the woman in black standing at the top of the staircase.
So nothing that wasn’t at least suggested by the trailer, but the idea that Catwoman is intimately associated with Bane’s plot is interesting.
There’s also a lot of the typical praise for the costume, Nolan, and the organization of the production from Hathaway. She also discusses the history of the character and her approach to it with a lot of grace, both paying respect and distancing herself from previous interpretations.
“What’s come before doesn’t limit or even affect this new version,” Hathaway said. “It doesn’t affect me because each Catwoman – and this is true in the comics as well – she is defined by the context of the Gotham City created around her. Catwoman is so influenced by Gotham and whoever is creating Gotham at the time. Michelle Pfeiffer’s Catwoman was informed by Tim Burton’s Gotham and Eartha Kitt was informed by Adam West’s Gotham. You have to live in whatever the reality of the world is and whatever Gotham is.”
It’s well worth reading if you’re hungry for new Batman bits after the release of the first full trailer. Before you split out though, take a look at the unnecessarily high-resolution photos that debuted via Empire a while ago, but are now available for pixel-by-pixel inspection. Except for that one shot of Bane above, where his arm make-up is looking particularly cakey and probably wouldn’t do to be seen at 20 megapixels.
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