It speaks to the power of Tom Hardy’s charisma that his portrayal of Bane — despite the fact that The Dark Knight Rises is the worst of the three Christopher Nolan Batman film — remains culturally relevant to this day, eight years after the film was released. People still wear Bane masks and do impressions of his voice.
The “oh, you think darkness is your ally. But you merely adopted the dark; I was born in it, molded by it” quote is still referenced and memed. Hardy’s portrayal of Bane may not have been perfect, but it was certainly memorable.According to recent reports, Warner Bros. reportedly considering going back to the Bane well, as Heroic Hollywood states that a solo movie in the vein of Joker was considered.
“After the surprise success of Joaquin Phoenix’s award-winning Joker, there was going to be an attempt to pitch a Bane standalone film to DC executives. In a similar way to the Todd Philips film, it could’ve offered a filmmaker the chance to explore the villain’s psyche with a character study, although hopefully with a little more brawling.”
“A potential pitch for the film would have loosely used the Vengeance of Bane story from the comics as the basis for the script. The plot would’ve introduced Bane to the DC Universe revealing that his tragic origin began before he was even born. Since Batman is key to his motivation across the arc, the Bat could’ve existed somewhere in the film, even if it was just as a looming presence over Gotham City.” [via Heroic Hollywood]
However, as the reports explained, the proposed project was essentially dead on arrival as “Warner Bros. might use him in a future Batman film.”
With director Matt Reeves clearly intent on fleshing out Gotham City’s iconic rogues gallery — Riddler, Penguin, Catwoman, Carmine Falcone, and *maybe* even Two-Face are all set to be introduced in The Batman — it certainly seems likely that a character as famous as Bane will almost certainly appear in the sequel.
The Batman — which stars Robert Pattinson as Bruce Wayne/Batman, Zoe Kravitz as Selina Kyle/Catwoman, Colin Farrell as Oswald Cobblepot/Penguin, Paul Dano as Edward Nashton/Riddler, John Turturro as Carmine Falcone, Jeffrey Wright as Gotham City Police Commissioner James Gordon, Andy Serkis as Alfred Pennyworth, and Peter Sarsgaard as Gotham District Attorney Gil Colson — is currently set to hit theaters in the United States on October 1, 2021.
Eric is a New York City-based writer who still isn’t quite sure how he’s allowed to have this much fun for a living and will tell anyone who listens that Gotham City is canonically in New Jersey. Follow him on Twitter @eric_ital for movie and soccer takes or contact him eric@brobible.com
