More Catwoman Photos Emerge From The Dark Knight Rises Set

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More Catwoman Photos Emerge From <i>The Dark Knight Rises</i> Set  

If you thought a shot of Anne Hathaway astride the Batpod was an unusual choice for the official first look at Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises, well, you’re probably not alone. However, it turns out there’s a perfectly good reason for Warner Bros.’ decision: The studio was racing ahead of photos they knew would emerge this morning from the Pittsburgh set of Christopher Nolan’s film.

SpoilerTV has several shots of Hathaway’s stunt double driving the motorcycle down the snow-covered steps of the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research, which is doubling as Gotham City Hall for that big Batman vs. Bane/riot sequence we saw earlier in the week.

The photos offer a better look at Catwoman’s costume, rumored to be inspired by Darwyn Cooke’s decade-old design. There are significant differences, however, even beyond the goggles; note the pouches on her belt — practical for a thief, certainly — and what appear to be thigh-high boots.

Check out some of the shots below, and visit Spoiler TV to see more.

The Dark Knight Rises, which opens July 20, 2012, also stars also stars Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Tom Hardy, Marion Cotillard, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Morgan Freeman.

  • http://phantasmavore.blogspot.com/ Phantasmavore

    Looks decent and faithful enough to the best version of the comic book version that I’d like to see on screen! So far so good, now just hope they nail down the characterization and chemistry on screen!

  • Lucas

    I think they should’ve had her hair black and cut short you know like what Cooke had it.

  • Boyblunder

    Not to say there’s anything wrong with campy cheesy and childish. But to reduce a whole medium to those three things in ur words, is kinda ridiculous……the batman movies are comic books movies. Simply be us batman is a comic book character. Comics aren’t campy cheesy and childish, and it’s almost kinda insulting to belittle them to that. Comics are everything from Comics like Archie, to comics like crossed, and preacher. It’s a medium like any other.
    But to be fair I think u were meaning superhero movies. And if that’s the case ur closer to the target but u still haven’t hit the tree. Superhero movies can be anything. I wouldn’t consider captain America, iron man, and the incredible hulk to be campy cheesy or childish, but ur right they do have a light hearted senseabilty. I don’t mean to sound like a fanboy, as I’m sure I do writing this. But, movies, books, comics, tv, video games, can’t just have there genres put in little boxes, with barriers saying where and where not to go. Art is subjective (I know I’m sounding pretentious), but taking new twists on things, and furthering them, and doing New amazing and not so amazing stories, that break those barriers is the whole point of art and entertainment. The truth is we need this dark, gritty, more realistic batman movie, much more than we needed another campy, silly batman movie……..as commissioner Gordon would say ” we got the here we desreved”

  • Boyblunder

    Yet they still got ur ten dollars at the box office for transformers 3……so that point is kinda moot.

  • BradRz

    I can’t keep up with fanboy revisionism. Is Nolan’s Batman still the greatest thing ever committed to film ever, or has it always totally and completely sucked now?

    I really could flip a coin, couldn’t I?

  • Scud

    The more I see of this movie the worse it looks. Well The Dark Knight had a pretty tight ending anyway so if this sucks I won’t be to mad.

  • Richardcasey

    The goggles look weird, but maybe they’re more to do with wind blowing in her eyes that using them to steal shit. Still, looks pretty cool, and the use of “the batbike” makes me thing Bruce is going to be involved in her origin, maybe she robs him and discovers the bat cave or he catches her in the act and offers to supply her with kit in exchange for turning over a new leaf as a hero.

  • Jcfig

    “Ur”? You mean “your”. Anyhow my point is not moot. I almost didn’t see Transformers and judging by the bastardization of Batman comic characters like Bane and Catwoman, I am doubting I will pay money to watch this because its like watching Smallville expecting see a show about Superman when all you get is Dawsons Creek. Pissing off fans is not a good idea. But then again my point is kinda moot right coming from someone who can’t spell “your” properly.

  • en

    Goddamn it. Why would you bring a cheesy character like that into your classy Batman films. There goes the “realistic and gritty” element is was looking forward to.

  • Faenris

    My thoughts exactly if didn’t know this was from Batman. I would be why the hell is Black Widow on am motorcycle…?

  • frentic

    I was afraid of the casting and now I am afraid of the costumes.

  • Anonymous

    I don’t like the outfit.

  • Anonymous

    This costume gives me bad flashbacks of Alicia Silverstone in Batman & Robin. *Shudders*.

    Even though I have total faith in Nolan’s vision and am still looking forward to TDKR, the Catwoman outfit is a total fail without the mask. I know Nolan’s Batman is steeped in reality, but if there is no correlation to a cat, why call her Catwoman? The current costume for Catwoman in the comics with the goggles still would have worked for this movie.

    At this point, they should have just made Anne Hathaway the Huntress.

  • Anonymous

    On one vein, I see your point at the overreaction. But on the other hand, unless she is not called Catwoman at all, the costume looks silly without the cat mask. I’ll still see the movie regardless, but ‘realistic’ nature of the Catwoman costume was a bit of a letdown.

  • JayPhonomancer

    And as usual the internet fanboys explode in rage over a few screenshots and think they can judge an entire movie (as yet uncompleted) from on-set stills.

    As Bobby Washington said a few posts ago remember the outrage about casting “that guy from Ten Things I Hate About You” as the Joker?  Yeah, people didn’t end up looking silly then did they?  The fact that all they knew him as was “that guy from Ten Things I Hate About You” said more about them than it did about Ledger or Nolan.

    This is ONE SEQUENCE of the film and according to the article this wasn’t planned on being the first look at the character but they had to release it to beat these pictures getting the exclusive.

    And let’s face it Nolan is doing a realistic crime-movie style Batman and so Catwoman as a cat-burglar seems perfectly acceptable.  To be honest it’s kind of what I was expecting.

  • Bigntalljj

    Name one character that DC fucked up other then this Catwoman? At least DC can put out movies that actually follow the original comics. When was the last movie that Marvel did correctly…..THE FIRST TIME!

  • Tommythetuba

    The title of the official pic release was Selina Kyle, not catwoman. These pics look totally unofficial. Since catwoman is being introduced in this flick, it’s not far fetched to believe that the suit can improve/progress throughout the movie, much as batman’s has in the last 2.

    Save you anger til it’s released… You never know what you’re gonna get. Besides, thus far, Nolan’s been kicking ass.

  • Boyblunder

    Nope. Ur. Easier to type. And bastardization? 1. That’s a bold claim to make from a few screen shots and 2. UR point is moot, because when it cam right down to it transformers got UR money, u contributed! So yeah bad point. But arguing semantics is pointless.
    Smallville lasted 10 seasons, so regardless if u liked it or not, it’s clear a lot of folks did (even tho they said from the beginning this wasn’t a superman show “no tights, no flights” so once again point = moot)…..give Chris Nolan the benefit of the doubt whether u like the costumes or not, he hasn’t let us down yet (at least in the opinions of the masses), and I doubt he’s gonna fuck it up on his last film of the series. There is definitely more to say about story, than there is about wardrobe. So I hope they get UR cash at the box office ;)

  • Boyblunder

    Film will always be subjective. But there’s no doubt in my mind both of his bat films have been phenomenal……dk is, and probably always will be in my top five favorite movies.

  • Boyblunder

    Cus she’s a cat burglar

  • Boyblunder

    Nolans such a mind f**k, he’s probably making us think he’s making tdkr, when he’s actually making a big budget dcuniverse movie staring every member of the beetles living and dead.
    P.s. Guess who’s wonder woman?…….sorry ringo

  • Anonymous

    Did they state that in the movie’s press release? Never heard that she’s specifically a cat burglar.

  • Jcfig

    Listen blunderboy, ur opinion is just that. Stick to what you know and fraggerfraggin okay I really did like Nolans 2 Batman movies. No scratch that I loved them but that doesn’t mean he can’t mess up his last movie with poor costume decisions. Get it? I’m not saying the movie is going to suck I’m saying Bane looks like a gimp and now Catwoman doesn’t look like Catwoman which makes me type that I probably will not watch this third Batman movie. Unless the trailer really wows me. And regardless of how many viewers or seasons Smallville had, it still sucks and wasn’t made with comic fans in mind. It was made for fans of Dawsons Creek. It’s still crap the same way McDonalds food is crap regardless of the money they make. Get it?

  • BoyBlunder

    well…thats the whole basis of the charecter? thatd be stating the obvious. thats why they gave her the cat motif. “lets make a cat burgalar villian, and call her catwoman and giver her ears and a tail’…………Itd be like them having to state in the press release that Batman fights crime…

  • BoyBlunder

    well, ur opnion on smallville is just that aswell. i know tons of people that loved the show. and on a side note, if u watch the last 3 or 4 season they def have the fans in mind! with outa doubt in those seasons it became a live action super friends. they did a JSA episode for crying out loud! and a Booster Gold episiode! they were sucking the fans off those last couple seasons………but anyways that hasnt nothing to do with this article. long story short, u cant ruin a movie with bad costumes. not even bad dialouge, bad cinemetography etc. its usually a mixture of some of those elements, costumes being at the very end of the list….but when it comes right down to it film is subjective. a great movie in the masses eyes, is still just their opinion.

  • jt rodgers

    Ouch! haha (JT from Pittsburgh (un-mulleted))

  • nik

    No, sir.  You most certainly are not.