'Dark Knight Rises' Prologue Confirmed By Warner Bros.
Six-minute sequence will run on select IMAX screens before 'Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol' showings.
By Kevin P. Sullivan
Christian Bale and Tom Hardy on the set of "Dark Knight Rises"
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Well, it took long enough. Warner Bros. has finally pulled back the curtain on the hotly anticipated six-minute opening sequence from "The Dark Knight Rises."
/Film originally broke the story in October, reporting that a short prologue would run on select IMAX screens before showings of "Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol." For over a month, the studio had remained silent on the topic, and when the AMC theater chain released a statement confirming the report, the post was removed soon afterward.
When the MPAA handed down a PG-13 rating for the prologue alone, the event was all but confirmed.
Now, an official statement from Warner Bros. is reiterating most everything previously said about the preview. It will last six minutes and consist of the film's first sequence. The clip was shot on the IMAX 15 perf 65mm/70mm film that director Christopher Nolan used for several key action sequences during "The Dark Knight."
There has been much speculation about the content of the preview. This month's issue of Empire confirmed that the prologue would introduce Tom Hardy's Bane.
Unfortunately for some Batman fans, as previously stated, the "Dark Knight Rises" prologue will only play before "Ghost Protocol" on screens using true 70mm IMAX projection, so theaters with the more common digital projection will not get the preview. All told, only 42 screens in the U.S. and Canada will show it.
Here is a list of the theaters where you can catch the "Dark Knight Rises" prologue starting December 16:
Austin, TX - IMAX Theater Austin
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