With an apparently bitter tone, the Batman franchise by director Christopher Nolan comes to an end this coming summer and Warner Bros. has released the one-sheet pictured at right. If the character depicted is Christian Bale as Batman, he looks larger and the film, shot in Pittsburgh (after corrupt Chicago lost the production due to the city’s taxes and controls), promises to dominate next year’s movies in every way. The poster’s mood, with a broken mask in the foreground amid driving, dreary rain, fits the foul mood of these disintegrated American states. In a word, it’s perfect.
