Introducing Bane - before 'The Dark Knight Rises'

Bane "unmasked" in preview.

An early peek at "The Dark Knight Rises" - about eight minutes of footage - was screened by director Christopher Nolan on Thursday. Just in case you weren't on the guest list for the viewing - yes, we misplaced our tickets, too - the preview will be seen by audiences in select IMAX theaters later this month before "Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol."

According to The Hollywood Reporter:

The majority of the preview introduced audiences to Bane, the Batman movie's major villain, played by a masked Tom Hardy. Without giving too much away, the footage revolved around a heist involving a plane.

The sequence was grand in scope, expanding the Batman world outside of Gotham City, and it was filled with a lot of tension and dread. The effect was not only from the images on screen but from the score, which was reminiscent of Nolan's The Dark Knight and Inception.

In Massachusetts, the IMAX theaters that will be showing the footage include the Jordan's IMAX  in Natick and the IMAX 3D Theatre in Reading. For a complete list, click here.

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