The Dark Knight Rises
Beginning Plot Ideas
-Camera slowly zooms into Rhaz Algul’s Mansion
-We hear sounds of men fighting and training
-Zooms into building
-We see Bane fending against two League of Shadows warriors
-Bane fights hard and defeats them
-Rhaz Algul clapping from atop on balcony behind him
-Rhaz says “Well done my son. You have indeed surpassed the expectations of both myself and the League of Shadows.”
-Bane says “I aim only to please you father.”
-Scenes from Batman Begins of Bruce Wayne coming into the League and training under Rhaz.
-Scene of Bruce balancing and fending off warriors. Full scene introduced. Camera switches between Bruce fighting and Bane standing in corner observing with a jealous and angry face.
-More scenes replayed as Bruce and Rhaz train, all the while Bane becoming angrier and jealous that he is gaining the gratitude of Rhaz instead of himself. “Teachers Pet” in a way.
-All the while Bane never speaks a word to his father or to Bruce about his jealousy.
-Bane is away training while Bruce is being inducted into the League.
-Bane sees Mansion on fire and runs into it to see what is happening and to try and save his father.
-He sees Bruce fighting the imposter Rhaz and realizes his true intentions.
-Before he can make it to the real Rhaz, he gets caught in the debris and fire and scars his body and face and passes out.
-Survives under rubble but cannot move. Stays alive through pure hatred towards Bruce Wayne and vows to avenge his father and kill Wayne.
-Days pass with no hope of survival until she comes.
-Talia al Ghul (Marion Collard) enters house frantically looking for survivors and her father. She finds no one but Bane barely alive.
-She manages to retrieve him and take him to the Lazarus Pit. There he is reborn a new man with nothing but revenge on his mind. His body is 100% healthy, but he still retains his burns and scars, especially on his face. Bane fashions a crude mask for himself.
Future Scene Ideas
-Bane will be under the impression that Rhaz al Ghul died in the explosion. While he and Batman will be fighting at one point in the movie, Bruce will try to explain that he survived and he did all he could to dissuade him from continuing to be evil. Bane will of course accuse Batman of lying and never believe a word he says.
-A scene in which Bane leads his three tumblers and two military transport vehicles to Arkham Asylum to bust it open and free the prisoners so he may recruit them to be his own personal army. At one point inside Arkham while Bane is freeing prisoners, he will stop at one certain jail cell titled “Unknown”. One of the head prisoners who worked with the Joker will ask if he should be freed. Bane will say there’s no room in his mission for freaks. Camera will zoom away from his cell down the hallway with the sound of Joker’s laugh.
-Once prisoners are freed, Bane instructs them to put on National Guard uniforms taken from the dead solders. Bane and his new army will drive right into Gotham City disguised as the National Guard and persuade the Mayor and all the city’s major officials to come with them as a result of a suspected terrorist threat against their lives.
-Bane will lead them all to a location outside of town and issues a statement privately to Batman that he must come and face him alone or else he will publicly declare to Gotham that Batman has kidnapped the Mayor and plans to kill him if Gotham does not accept him again. For every hour Batman doesn’t show up, Bane kills one city official.
Pending Scenes
-Next scene shows Bane wearing full League of Shadows outfit, down on one knee, and about to receive his recognition as a member.
-Rhaz says “Are you prepared to devote yourself entirely to the code of the League of Shadows to promote peace and justice?”
-Bane says “Everything I have in me, and more.”
