At one point, an announcer got on a loudspeaker and told the extras to not ham it up for the cameras. Some of the highlights of the chaotic mess include extras breaking out into chants for Bane and T-shirts, medics being called in for heat exhaustion, and Steelers great Hines Ward riding atop a Batmobile. Shortly after the scene was shot at Heinz Field (now called Acrisure Stadium) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in August 2011, the Post-Gazette published a very detailed report about everything that went down. The destruction of the football stadium (and the bridges and tunnels around Gotham City) in The Dark Knight Rises is one of the most iconic and terrifying scenes in the entire trilogy, but pulling off the feat of destroying a football field with tens of thousands of extras in the summer sun (a scene that is supposed to take place in autumn) was no easy task. Pictures) Shooting The Football Stadium Scene Was A Hot, Chaotic Mess And even though the process had a negative effect on Hardy, he was still quick to make a joke about the fan response to his voice. And he said, ‘When I get into a ring with a man, and we want to wipe you off the face of the Earth, and he wants to kill me.’ And I was like, ‘This is great.’Īfter coming up with the voice, Hardy ran the idea by Christopher Nolan and said they could either play it safe with a “Darth Vader route” or try something new. “The king of the gypsies, in inverted commas, is a bare-knuckle fighter and a boxer.

So I looked at the concept of Latin and found a man called Bartley Gorman, who’s a Romani gypsy. In a 2021 Wired video interview alongside Venom: Let There Be Carnage director Andy Serkis, Hardy explained its origin:īane quintessentially is Latinx in origin and I’m not. But while one might assume the voice was something that was drawn up by a committee, the iconic and divisive voice was Hardy’s idea. Love it or hate it, Tom Hardy’s Bane voice is one of the most memorable aspects of The Dark Knight Rises and something people just can’t stop talking about 10 years after its release.

Pictures) Tom Hardy Based His Bane Voice On A Legendary Bare-Knuckled Boxer Nicknamed ‘King of the Gypsies’ In a way, the perilous riddle is the most lighthearted part of the caper things just get worse from there.(Image credit: Warner Bros. To top it off, combining the first letter of each sentence spells out 'GUL,' or 'Gotham University Library.' Naturally, this turns out to be just the first step of a very disturbing night involving a satanic ritual the Riddler wants Batman to help him complete by stealing babies, killing henchmen, and crippling his victims. 'Leaves' in this case refer to the pages of a book, 'worms' is a reference to 'bookworms,' and 'deathly quiet' describes the interior of a library. Lots of words, but deathly quiet.' She then promptly throws herself off the roof of Gotham P.D., showing that Riddler is crazy enough to shoot his own messengers.īatman saves the woman and then dissects the riddle with remarkable ease. In the first issue, Batman is approached by a brainwashed woman dressed as a sphinx who tells the Dark Knight, 'Generally, my leaves aren't turned at night.

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