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Batman & Basketball: 'The Dark Knight Rises' NBA Playoffs Promo

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Batman & Basketball: 'The Dark Knight Rises' NBA Playoffs PromoBatman & Basketball: 'The Dark Knight Rises' NBA Playoffs Promo

What's kind of like the NBA Playoffs?  The war to control the fictitious Gotham City in The Dark Knight Rises, the climactic installment of Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy.  Both the movie and the playoffs feature a man dressed up as a giant Bat using a high tech arsenal to fight crime, a burglarizing woman dressed like a slinky cat, and a monomaniacal villain who you can bet won't win out in the end.  Okay, so the playoffs don't have those first two, but the inhabitants of Cleveland could persuasively argue that LeBron James fits the bill for the last one.

The promo is really just a TV spot, one that intermixes basketball footage with familiar snippets of the film, using taglines like, "Enemies Collide" and "Heroes emerge" to bring home the connection between the DC Comics hero and the NBA Playoffs.

So there's nothing new from the film here, but it's really just a glimpse of how pervasive the marketing for this Batman finale is going to get over the next two months.  It's going to be inescapable, folks.  It might just make The Avengers ubiquitous marketing look quaint.

You know the deal here.  Bane comes to town, bringing an agenda that's at once revolutionary and despotic.  He breaks Batman and takes control of the city, but Bruce Wayne and his allies are tough to keep down.

Christian Bale returns as Batman, along with Gary Oldman, Michael Caine, and Gary OldmanTom Hardy plays Bane, while Anne Hathaway is the latest actress to play Selina Kyle.  Other newcomers include Marion Cotillard, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Juno Temple, Matthew Modine, and Josh Pence.

The Dark Knight Rises arrives on regular-sized and IMAX-sized screens on July 20th.

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Batman & Basketball: 'The Dark Knight Rises' NBA Playoffs Promo
What's kind of like the NBA Playoffs?  The war to control the fictitious Gotham City in The Dark Knight Rises, the climactic installment of Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy.  Both the...

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