Last night I found this teaser poster for The Dark Knight Rises floating around Twitter — starting the promotion early since Christopher Nolan‘s latest Batman film doesn’t come out til next summer. While the posters for 2005′s The Dark Knight could use the Joker (Heath Ledger) and Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart) to hype up the movie, this one seems more focused on the city of Gotham itself. As EW pointed out, the way that the infrastructure is crumbling resembles Nolan’s last big movie, Inception.
What’s also interesting is that the movies don’t have to rely entirely on Christian Bale to carry the posters and generate interest; although he’s seen in silhouette in the teaser for Batman Begins, he’s only on one of the posters for The Dark Knight; and as you can see above, it’s the bat symbol, not the man, who alerted us to the new movie’s conflict.
