THE DARK KNIGHT RISES First Movie Photo of Tom Hardy As Bane

This is the first official photo of The Dark Knight Rises featuring Tom Hardy (Inception) As Bane. Bane will play the Villain in this installment of The Dark Knight.

To say that I am excited would be the understatement of the century. Tom Hardy looks insanely cool as the villain. I don’t know much more about him, nor do I really want to know. I want to be surprised.

As a reminder, in addition to Christian Bale as Batman, the movie also stars Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman and Anne Hathaway. The movie will be released July 20th, 2012.