Shaping up to be the most anticipated film of 2012, The Dark Knight Rises has been shrouded in secrecy (that is, until last week, when Christopher Nolan finally let slip a few details about the film).  What do we know about the film?  Well, it takes place eight years after The Dark Knight, and features Bane and Catwoman at odds with Batman.  Recently, Christian Bale slipped a few details about the villainous characters in an interview.

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After months and months of secrecy, Christopher Nolan is finally releasing some Dark Knight Rises spoilers, all of which went to Empire Magazine.  Most of them are character details about Batman and his new villain, Bane, but one detail seems to loom larger than the rest—The Dark Knight Rises will take place eight years after the previous film, The Dark Knight.

Warning: Spoilers ahead!

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The L.A. Times is reporting that Christopher Nolan‘s The Dark Knight Rises, which is currently shooting in Los Angeles, will be moving its shoot to New York on October 29, and may have the cast interact with the current Occupy Wall Street protestors. What’s interesting about this is how those protestors will be used. It’s is unknown which cast members (a cast that includes Christian Bale, Anne Hathaway, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Tom Hardy to name a few) will be doing the interacting.

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So, last week, we were privy to the new Catwoman, as featured in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises and portrayed by Anne Hathaway.  Also of note was the fact that, in the promo picture, Catwoman was riding Batman’s Bat-Pod (a.k.a., that motorcycle thing that pops out of the Batmobile/ Tumbler in The Dark Knight).  And now, according to a video that leaked from The Dark Knight Rises’ set, not only does Catwoman steal the Bat-Pod, but the stuntdriver portraying her loses control of the vehicle—with disastrous results, as far as the IMAX cameras used to film the new movie are concerned.

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with Harry Potter’s conclusion out of the way, is there another film more highly anticipated than The Dark Knight Rises? Even Peter Jackson‘s Hobbit films don’t have the same heat on them. The Dark Knight Rises is due July 20112, and perhaps with Comic-con drawing close, we finally have a teaser for what appears to be Christopher Nolan‘s last Batman movie. But it’s just a tease. Take a look.

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Josh Pence played one of the Winklevosses in The Social Network, but his twin was the one who had his head digitally erased and swapped out with Armie Hammer. Pence has said he did it to work with David Fincher, and it appears that exposure has paid off as he’s now been cast in The Dark Knight Rises as a young Ra’s Al Ghul – the character played by Liam Neeson in the first film. This comes straight from The Hollywood Report. How much this character is in the film is unknown – it appears to be a flashback – but the casting announcement does put some cards into place about the film’s plot.

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With much of the major cast announced (though not necessarily who they’ll be playing), The Dark Knight Rises is to begin production this summer and the location chosen for shooting is Pittsburgh. Earlier there was word it might shoot in Louisiana or in Eastern Europe, but it looks like the bulk of the photography will be happening stateside according to The Pittsburgh Post Gazette .

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The blockbuster sequel news is coming in hard and heavy today, but this one might take the cake—in an interview with the L.A. Times, new Warner Bros. Pictures president Jeff Robinov spoke about the future of superhero franchises with Warner Bros. after the release of Green Lantern, The Dark Knight Rises, and the Superman reboot.

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Alright everyone, let the baseless, frenzied speculation begin!  Gary Oldman recently revealed details (yet again!) concerning The Dark Knight Rises’ production script to Absolute Radio, which is going to set more than million or so fanboy hearts a-flutter.  And it turns out that the big climax of the film, along with the villain, is…

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