The Dark Knight Rises First Look Pictures

The latest issue of Empire magazine featured some of the first official photos from The Dark Knight Rises since that initial teaser photo of Bane.  The photos feature Batman, post-beatdown on some thugs, Bane in a combat vest looking outfit and, probably most interesting, Bane outside a building waving around a photo of Harvey Dent.  Christopher Nolan also revealed in the article that DKR takes place eight years after The Dark Knight and features Bruce Wayne in a not very good place mentally.  Tom Hardy was also interviewed and said that Bane’s fighting style in the movie is extremely brutal, breaking bones, stomping downed enemies and generally trying to cause as much damage as possible.  The first full trailer is supposed to debut with Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows on December 16 but for now check out the pics below.