Cosplay of the Day: Bane’s a Real Back-Breaker
You'd think we'd be sick of seeing people cosplay as Bane from 'The Dark Knight Rises,' but this guy's spot-on costume is too awesome to ignore.
You'd think we'd be sick of seeing people cosplay as Bane from 'The Dark Knight Rises,' but this guy's spot-on costume is too awesome to ignore.
With a big-budget film like 'The Dark Knight Rises,' there were many drafts of the script, costumes, concept art and the like that did not make the final cut. For one, we all know that one of Bane's original design was more akin to the comic book villain than the one Tom Hardy portrayed on the screen. For another, the promotional artwork went through a number of changes as well. Just take a look at these gun and ammunition-themed posters that Warner Bros. almost used to promote Christopher Nolan's final Batman film.
There's so much spectacular cosplay from Comic-Con to Dragon-Con and the like, but Nicole Marie Jean wowed us early on with her unique interpretation of a female Bane -- and our readers were as equally wowed!
'The Dark Knight Rises' was arguably the biggest movie of summer 2012, next to 'The Avengers.' Warner Bros. tortured us for what seemed like months on end with spoilery movie stills, trailers, TV spots, posters and random clips, but there's plenty more of this blockbuster to be seen.
In Christopher Nolan's 'The Dark Knight Rises' Batman/Bruce Wayne faces his most dangerous and enigmatic foe yet: the muscular, masked Bane (Tom Hardy). There were a lot of questions left unanswered about his character, and it appears those answers were left on the cutting room floor.
Well, except for an answer to "what the hell does his voice sound like?" which is a question that's been eating away at our collective pop culture consciousness for weeks now.
There are many reasons to be scared of the 'Dark Knight Rises' version of Bane. He's big, strong, referred to as a ruthless killer, has lived in prison for the majority of his life and even Catwoman is scared of him. But the main reason we'd piddle in our pants if confronted by him, and no one seems to have picked up on this, is that he looks like a relative of the 'Predator' aliens.
OK, now we really have heard everything: on his show this afternoon, extreme right-wing radio personality Rush Limbaugh floated possibly the looniest conspiracy theory we've ever heard. And it involves 'The Dark Knight Rises.'
A new companion book to 'The Dark Knight Rises' spills some very interesting and potentially very spoilerific info about the movie's big villain, Bane (Tom Hardy). Warning: read no further unless you're absolutely dying to know the deal.