More From The Cast Of The Dark Knight Rises

Considering the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly has a massive Summer 2012 preview, it’s understandable that there will be tons of stuff about The Dark Knight Rises in there. We’ve been treated to six new stills, a few exercepts but now we have some more goodies for you. A more detailed plot synopsis, and some interviews with the three main cast members (which are Christian Bale, Tom Hardy and Anne Hathaway in case you didn’t guess). Check it all out below:

Christian Bale:

Listening to Team Nolan talk about the film, you find yourself wondering: ‘Will Batman actually survive till the end credits?”….”We wanted to show a character who is aging, who is damaged, who may not be in his prime,” says Bale. “He has never encountered anyone with such blunt force as Bane, and this is not the best time for him to encounter him.”

Anne Hathaway:

“He has created an epic disaster film.She convinced herself that Nolan wasn’t interested in reinterpreting a character who had already been done well enough (Hathaway loves Pfiefer’s Catwoman) and was instead casting a lesser-known villainess from Batman’s rogue’s gallery named Harley Quinn. Nope. “About an hour into our meeting he said, ‘It’s Catwoman and I went ‘Oh no, I played this wrong’ says Hathaway. “I didn’t think they would revisit that character because Michelle’s performance is so iconic. But Chris just does his own thing”

Tom Hardy:

“The Joker didn’t care-he just wanted to see the world burn, and he was a master of chaos and destruction, unscrupulous and crazy. Bane is not that guy. There’s a very meticulous and calculated way about Bane. There is a huge orchestration of organization to his ambition.”

Rises was conceived and written to bring a sense of unity-and finality-to the whole franchise. “It stands alone, yet completes a cyclical work,” says Hardy. “Think triplets instead of one child after another – the Dark Knight triplets.”

Plot Synopsis:

“Rises is set eight years after the events of the Dark Knight. Gotham City is at peace and prospering, but Bruce Wayne is still recovering physically and emotionally from the tragic battles with the Joker and Harvey Dent. Batman, who took the fall for Harvey’s crimes so Gotham could remain inspired by the lawman’s former idealism, continues to be reviled and MIA as the story begins. While old allies Alfred and Lucius Fox and potential love interest Miranda Tate try to revive Bruce’s spirits, two new threats to Gotham force Batman to end his exile.”