Dark Knight Rises Trailer

Bruce Wayne returns to Gotham after eight years in The Dark Knight Rises, his alias Batman nursing a sore reputation after the last film, The Dark Knight, where he assumed responsibility for the attorney Harvey Dent's crimes in order to protect Dent's name after he loses his life during The Joker's assault on the city. This time he intends to defend Gotham City from a new villain: the virtually indestructible Bane who, as discovered by Commissioner Gordon, is plotting the obliteration of the entire city from the inside.

The third trailer for the last of Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy The Dark Knight Rises was released last night showing the return of Christian Bale as the dark antihero alongside Anne Hathaway (The Devil Wears Prada, Get Smart) as the mysterious Selina Kyle aka Catwoman.

The all-star cast includes Gary Oldman (The Fifth Element, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix), Michael Caine (The Italian Job, The Prestige) and Morgan Freeman (The Shawshank Redemption, Million Dollar Baby).

Filmed in three continents including Pittsburgh, New York and LA in America, India, England and Scotland, this action-packed motion picture is produced by the same team as Batman Begins and The Dark Knight - Emma Thomas, Christopher Nolan and Jonathan Nolan - and based upon the comic book characters created by DC Comics.

The film is to be released on July 20th and is sure to be as much of a record-breaker as its prequel.

Starring: Christian Bale, Gary Oldman, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, Liam Neeson, Anne Hathaway, Marion Cotillard, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Tom Hardy, Matthew Modine, Josh Pence, Nestor Carbonell, Brett Cullen, Chris Ellis, Juno Temple, Alon Abutbul, Joey King and Tom Conti