Friday 20 September 2013

The Dark Night Rises 

The Dark Knight Rises (2012) Poster

Pre Production 
This film is a sequel to Batman Begins and Dark Knight which have all been directed by Christoper Nolan. The Dark Knight Rises is a production from Warner Brothers and Legendary Pictures, with an estimated $250 000 000 budget. This film has Christian Bale, Morgan Freeman and Michael Caine as the a list stars.

Production
The Dark Knight Rises was mainly filmed in Downtown, Los Angeles, California. Some of the filming was done in studios such as the batcave scene, that was filmed in Sony Pictures Studios and other parts of the film was filmed in places all across the world. Christopher Nolan had problems casting Selina Kyle (catwomen) as they didn't have an idea of who would be right for the role, eventually they had some tests with Anne Hathaway and she blew then away. They also had a problem casting bane as they believed no one would want to play that role and they struggled with his voice as it would be covered in a mask. They fixed this when tom hardy wanted the role as he fit the character perfectly. 

Post Production
This is the first batman film to not really on special effects as it is the first to have a really heavy characters and not spend its money on producing special effects. The main scene of special effects was the scene at the football stadium, to produce this scene they mainly used cg special effects but most of it was stunning stunt work and physical effects. 3D was not added to this film as 'nobody likes 3D' because of high ticket prices, bulky, uncomfortable glasses, dim pictures and literal headaches. I can not find any information to prove that The Dark Knight Rises required any re-shoots. 

Marketing 
The first step of The Dark Knight Rises marketing began with a story of batman going round the world painting bats in urban scenes, this then was followed by the locations of all of them and people were told that once a photo of every bat had been received the trailer would be released. This sparked people to find them and it took less than a day for all to be received and the trailer was released. Some other ways  they marketed this was in the generic ways of posters and trailers. They also sent the bat mobile to different places promoting the movie by giving out handouts and letting people enter competition to win cinema tickets. The Dark Knight Rises premier was on the 16th of July in New York City.

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