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.

  • Jeff Kraschinski

    MEOW! Almost looks like a fusion of Cooke’s and Jim Balent’s designs…. The gloves are also arm length unlike Cooke’s design.

  • Guydc3

    Smexy!

  • catsmeow

    Please please please I hope she wears a mask! And she’d better have a whip! If Nolan butchers my favourite comic book character I swear I’ll…..

  • James207

    So she’s no longer Catwoman, she’s Trinity from the Matrix. Horrible. Here’s a clue WB…the Trinity thing is terribly dated…don’t use it for Catwoman, and don’t use it for Wonder Woman either. It’s tired.

  • http://twitter.com/Toddry aka. sprflyspdrguy

    Oh snap, I didn’t know Black Widow was in this movie too?!

  • http://twitter.com/Deathlok Luthor Manning

    Jesus this looks like a horrible Hallie Berry catwoman! WILL DC fuck up yet another character?????

  • nik

    I like everything about it but the head.  The lack of goggles…and the hair, she looks like she’s got a mullet.  I’m gonna have to thumbs down for the moment.

  • Mak

    That’s it?

  • Eddard

    Puke. If the Bat gets to keep his ears, so should the Cat!

  • kalorama

     Never has the word “fanboy” seemed more appropriate than now. WTF were people expecting? A purple velvet with a tail and big cat ears? Have you people actually seen any of Nolan’s Bat movies? Enough with the whining, already.

    @Luthor Manning: Are you kidding me with that “looks like Halle Berry” stuff? Seriously, just stop.

  • Why

    Jesus. It’s like filmmakers go out of their way to fuck with the female characters. The whole “Cat” moniker will probably be some toss off joke title labeled by the press because she is a cat burglar.

  • Therightstuff

    Never seen so many dumb post before, really comparing her to trinity in the matrix? HEY GUESS WHAT cat woman WORE LEATHER FIRST DINGUS

    and its only ONE SHOT, who knows if thats the headgear she wears.

    there is a reason they dont let the fans make these choices.

    IN NOLAN WE TRUST

  • Matt Havok

    No. I’m sorry. How is that even a disguise? The bodysuit is fine and should be sleek and simple but people want to see CATwoman with the cat ears. Like someone else said, if Batman gets to wear his, it is no less logical for her.

  • Bret

    to say this is officially “CATWOMAN” is a bit of a miss IMO. Just call them Selina Kyle pics. Nothing here resembles catwoman.

  • kalorama

    Aside from the absence of the leather aviator helmet with the ears, the black leather bodysuit looks almost exactly like the one she’s been wearing in the comics for the better part of the past decade.

  • Kain

    You idiots that complain about fans whining are even worse. Welcome to the internet, jack offs. People are going to complain. Go back to your circle jerks if you can’t take it. 

    All people want is for Catwoman to look like CATWOMAN. Batman gets to wear his cape and bat cowl, why can’t she wear her mask?

  • TheCommander

    Call me when they put ears on the costume.

  • Darrell Tucker

    I like how this catwoman has nothing intrinsically cat-like in her appearence. Nail on the head WB!

  • Bobby Washington

    I’m guessing most of you were here a couple of years ago, complaining how little Ledger looked like Alan Moore / Brian Bolland’s Joker? Calm down, take a couple sips from your Capri-Sun and breath slowly. Or at least wait until you actually see the movie before you bust a capillary over a teaser image.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_6UEA6G3SXXUYYAVLMOSB3PRRCY Why

    It’s Darwyn Cooke’s costume minus the cowl. That’s the only real difference.

    Not to mention, there’s a reason the web address for the first pic is titled “Selina Kyle:”

    http://www.thedarkknightrises.com/selina_kyle.html

    What’s the big deal? Just imagine a cowl on and save yourself the coronary damage*.

    *Not the poster, but the disturbed ranters.

  • Capt USA(Jim)

    I must be the only person on the planet that hate the vehicles from the new batman series. 

  • Anonymous

    This whole scene looks crazy epic!

  • Anonymous

    how does it look like Halle Berry at all… AT ALL?!

    and its WB, DC has little do with their films…

  • Tangentman

    Load of rubbish as usual.

  • Shifty

    How does it look like Hallie Berry’s Catwoman?  She’s not dressed up in a torn up hooker’s Halloween costume…

  • Bret

    wow, a black bodysuit :|

    EVERYONE wears those. This could have been Black Widow, as previously mentioned above.

  • Shifty

    It looks pretty good from here, but I miss the mask and cat-ears.  The costume looks more “Emma Peel” right now than “Catwoman”.

  • Anonymous

     Well, they are filming in Pittsburgh so a mullet would be quite appropriate.

  • http://www.fantim.com fantim

    Black Widow is in the new Batman movie?  *confusion* 
    Isn’t this scene supposed to be towards the end of the movie?

  • Bsavini781

    Everyone going on about how IN NOLAN WE TRUST, lets be honest Batman begins was a step by step remake of BATMAN from the 80′s, in beats and finale. The Dark Knight was an ok movie, but got the hype machine behind it because Heath Ledger died. Ledger did a really good Joker, not gonna take that away from him, Two-Face was great, seeing Harvey Dent’s Fall from grace and all. but Cristian bale’s Batman has been piss poor in both movies. I have little faith for the 3rd movie, it’s going the Spider-man 3 route, shoving in way too many villians to give any of them a substansial story, when you have Cat Woman Bane and Talia. I am saying this now, only the hardcore geeks will be saying Dark Knight Rises is any good when it comes out. Much like the prequal Star Wars, all the geeks swore up and down how good they were, til a year later they started even saying they sucked

  • Kyle

    I’m sure that the cowl with the ears will be in the movie at some point. Who is to say we don’t see the character develop her persona throughout the movie. I don’t think it’ll be “bamn” here cat woman. I’ll reserve judgement until more images emerge, but I agree with the consensus – she needs her own cowl

  • AdamH12110

    I’m going to agree with what many are saying here: It needs some cat ears.  Even if it’ll make her look kind of like a high tech member of Josie and the Pussycats.

  • Shifty

    Yeah… no.

  • Anonymous

    First there was Mini-Bane’s Hobo-chic look, now this (which is just pretty weak).  Hope this translates better on screen than it’s doing in these pics.

  • kalorama

    “EVERYONE wears those.”

    Yeah, everyone including, for 10 years (and counting) worth of comics, Catwoman, making the statement  “Nothing here resembles catwoman”
    simply and flatly untrue.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_6UEA6G3SXXUYYAVLMOSB3PRRCY Why

    So, based on a few stills and about 10 seconds of new footage in a teaser trailer that has almost zero context, you’ve determined only “hardcore geeks” will think it’s any good.

    Do you even realize how absurd that sounds? That you’ve dismissed an entire film almost a year before it opens and while its still shooting without one objective reason?

    It may be amazing. it may be awful. But nothing released thus far points to either of those outcomes.

    How quickly people forget the nadir of “Batman and Robin.” It’s as if they hate to hate.

  • Anonymous

    It actually kind of DOES look like the first costume that Berry wears (before she decides to go for total stripper-wear).  I’d say go watch the movie to see for yourself, but I wouldn’t wish that on anyone.

  • kalorama

    “lets be honest Batman begins was a step by step remake of BATMAN from the 80′s, in beats and finale.”

    You want honesty? Okay . . . that’s complete and utter nonsense.

  • http://twitter.com/RodimusBen RodimusBen

    I get more psyched for this movie with every new pic that is leaked. This is sexy but realistic. I think there is also a good chance that cat ears will be involved before the movie is over. Don’t forget, Bruce Wayne didn’t wear the Batman costume until about halfway through Begins.

  • CMM

    In these images alone, she’s overpowered by the bike.  It seems to have more of an identity and personality than she does.  The outfit, as seen here, is generic.  All together, this looks more like a promo shot for a Batgirl than a Catwoman.  Her hair should be darker and shorter too, which she has had in other films.  If the goggles were more stylish, maybe yellow in color as well or something, that could help too.

    We really should wait for more non-action, standing in conversation or walking in action images to see if there is anything more to her look.

  • Boyblunder

    I’m absolutely sure they modled it after trinity….ugh freaking fanboys. It’s virtually a Modern comic version of the cat woman costume just with out the cat ears. You haven’t seen horrible till you’ve seen cat woman movie. but even that is subjective. This is an upgrade no matter what they do. Nolan is a genius! At least in my opinion, after two great batman movies, that redeemed the movie life of the charecter, he is a bigger hero than Bruce Wayne himself…..if I saw bane with heels on dancing to a rendition of umberella, sung by Jason mews, I’d still give that guy the benefit of the doubt!

  • Mark

    I was hoping more a Jim Lee’s style Batwoman….

  • http://twitter.com/starstealer starstealer

    It looks wrong without the ears.  That is what distinguishes Catwoman from all the other vixens and villians.  She might as well be Blackcat, or the Black Widow…;/

    Ears better make an appearance in the movie, especially if they can pull a realistic excuse for Batman to have his.

  • Upickafrigginname

    I don’t like it. I know I’m gonna get shit for this, but I don’t care, the haters can all kiss my ass, cause I am sick of getting ripped on for having my own opinion. Catwoman should have the mask and ears, right now she looks like just another spy or something. I don’t like the way Bane looks either. Now I’m not saying that this is going to make the movie suck, Nolan is a great director and the past two films have been great. I just don’t consider them comic book movies. Comic are campy, cheesey, and childish, and thats why I love them. They are fun. Nolan’s Batman is not fun, he is a psychopath who beats people up. I don’t want comics to be real, that takes the specialness out of them. But at the same time if you make them too campy you get Batman and Robin. It takes the right touch, and not many directors get how to do them. I just hope they try to keep Superman a bright and happy film, and not make him dark, brooding, and a complete douche.

  • Anonymous

    Jesus this looks like a horrible Hallie Berry catwoman!

    How so? They’re world’s apart. First, she’s fully covered up here. Second, she doesnt have that goofy helmet mask. I think she looks great.

    WILL DC fuck up yet another character?????

    You mean DC Comics right?

  • Anonymous

    I dont see the mullet. More like long hair slicked back

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, I really don’t understand the rage. So what if it’s different from what’s in the comics today. Catwoman’s had so many costumes over the years.

    I like it a lot. It’s pared down, no-nonsense and very classy. I don’t care that there’s no ears, whip or tail.

  • Lead_sharp

    I’ve never wanted to be a batpod before now.

  • Shaun

    Explain this “beat by beat” remake you claim Batman Begins was… Are you sure you’re not confusing Batman with how Superman Returns was (truly) an almost beat for beat remake of the 1978 Superman?

    Forgetting how Batman Begins played around with time by showing segments OUT of sequential order, take everything we saw about Bruce’s childhood, his time spent abroad training, his return to Gotham and, well, pretty much EVERYTHING else in “Begins” and then show me how it’s “beat for beat” a remake of that crappy, goofy 1989 Burton movie.

     ”Cristian bale’s Batman has been piss poor in both movies”

    Oh, shut up… Compared to Michael Keaton slumming through the part, not looking or sounding a thing like Bruce Wayne? You’re out of your mind. Bale looks the part, and unlike Keaton he INHABITS the part as well. He’s been the most believable live action Batman/Bruce Wayne of them all. Watch those movies again. Even small, more subtle moments like the look on Bruce’s face when Rachel is in the mansion, talking on her cell phone, learning that Dr. Crane is gettng Falcone moved to Arkham. Or the moment in TDK when he takes the drink at his party for Harvey but then quietly tosses the booze out of the glass on the balcony. It’s moments like those that show how Bale, and Nolan, truly get it in a way Keaton and Burton never did.

    Then again, Burton was more concerned about making Tim Burton freak shows then he was making great Batman movies. For that, we had to wait until Nolan came along. He’s doing it right, and I have faith that TDKR will be another great film.

     ”I am saying this now, only the hardcore geeks will be saying Dark Knight Rises is any good when it comes out.”

    So you’ve read the script, and you’ve been on the set to see what’s happening. That’s how you know this, right?  I think it’ll be great, but I accept that it could suck. That’s often the case with the third part of a trilogy. But I won’t know until I see it. Neither will you, unless you’e already decided to hate just because you’ve got some crush on Tim Burton or something.

    “Much like the prequal Star Wars, all the geeks swore up and down how good they were, til a year later they started even saying they sucked”

    Like who? Most people thought those prequels sucked from the get-go. I know I did! I saw Phantom Menace once only, skipped the second prequel entirely, and only saw the third on DVD. But anyhow, you’re now comparing apples and oranges. The word was bad on the SW prequels, while both of Nolan’s Bat-movies have gotten high critical praise (which remains, years after both films were released), along with being very successful financially.  Not the same thing at all.

    Anyway, don’t bogart that joint… I’d love some of what you’ve been smoking.

  • Jcfig

    I was willing to give Nolan a pass on the horrible gimp Bane look but this is unforgivable. I’m seeing too much ego take over here and not enough Catwoman in the design. Catwoman isn’t catwoman anymore, she’s looking like Trinity and stupider for it. Hooray. I’m not really that excited about this third Batman movie because Nolan has gone onrecord saying it’s his last bookend to the Batman mythos. I’m about as excited as I was for Transformers 3 which I waited weeks before I finally decided to watch it. I had to pass on Green Lantern though. I’m more excited about The Avengers now after great movies like Captain America, Thor, iron Man and X-men United. At least Zack Snyder has Superman covered.