The millennial Batman saga comes to a close in The Dark Knight Rises on July 20, 2012
The film marks the third and FINAL entry in Christopher Nolan’s critically acclaimed, record-breaking, billion-dollar-earning Batman film franchise reboot following The Dark Knight (2008) and Batman Begins (2005). And is sure to be a fitting end to what amounts as one of the finest film-entry superhero franchises of all time and one of the greatest comebacks of all time following the 90s Batman series and its ever downward spiral.
Of course, the Batman series needs no introduction, as virtually everyone and their mother, father, grandmother, grandfather and little baby Jake have seen The Dark Knight and are well-familiar with the late-great, Heath Ledger and his memorizing portrayal of Batman’s key villain, The Joker (a role that would be one of his last before his untimely drug overdose). Ledger died during the editing of the film and it stands as his penultimate hallmark.
(Although Heath Ledger’s final film would be “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus”, a film he did not complete as his passing came during the filming of it, and he was only a third of the way through his role. As such, actors Johnny Depp, Jude Law, and Colin Farrell stepped in and performed transformations of Ledger’s character as he travels through a dream world in the film.)
Because of Heath Ledger’s death (or despite of it), The Dark Knight became infamous and the film opened to the biggest haul in box office history, slashing records and setting new benchmarks for both superhero films and films in general. It is the eleventh highest-grossing film of all time and went on to gross over a billion dollars, grossing theater sales in total of $1,001,921,825 (that’s billions). It is the third highest grossing movie of all time in the United States, behind only Titanic and James Cameron’s Avatar. The Dark Knight was nominated for eight Academy Awards and won for Best Sound Editing and Best Supporting Actor for Heath Ledger’s performance of The Joker, the first posthumous award given since since Peter Finch in 1976.
Can The Dark Knight Rises top that? We’ll find out soon… Here is the last and final trailer for The Dark Knight rises. (which I won’t watch… I refuse to see any trailers and I know virtually nothing about the film. So I’ll be going into it with completely fresh eyes! :D)
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