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More Dark Knight Rises goodness on EW.com today — check out these 7 new photos from the film. Click through to find Bane, Wayne, and JGL as beat cop John Blake.

This week in EW: Our giant summer movie preview, featuring The Dark Knight Rises.

“I can tell you the truth because I’m done with it: I felt immense pressure,” Christian Bale tells EW. “And I think it’s a good pressure, because you owe it to the films — and the people’s expectations — to make great work.”

On the rare occasions when blockbuster demi-god Christopher Nolan emerges from his bleak dream-cave to unveil non-revelatory revelations about next year’s The Dark Knight Rises, the director has worked overtime to explain that Rises will be a genuine conclusion to his version of the Batman mythos. A new poster for the film makes that idea explicit. Batman’s mask lies on the ground, broken. In the background, we can see apparently unintelligible villain Bane walking away. The tagline is simple: “The Legend Ends.” It’s an interesting, uncompromising sales pitch — it’ll be intriguing to see how Rises plays in the same summer as the candy-colored superhero bromance The Avengers. It also adds more fuel to the main question hovering over Rises: Could they actually kill off Batman?

Of course, it’s also entirely possible that the altercation we’re seeing represented here happens early in the movie, and Bruce Wayne spends the film’s second act doing a Rocky IV montage to get back into shape, before putting on a ridiculous Nintendo costume and challening Bane to a grudge match. Somehow I doubt it, though.

Meow or hisssss? Va-va-voom or crash and burn?

Psst, Batman fans: If you decode an ominous audio track playing on thedarkknightrises.com, you’ll be led to to the Twitter hashtag #thefirerises—which then leads you to this photo-mosaic of Tom Hardy as masked villain Bane, of The Dark Knight Rises.

Warner Bros. says a clean high-res version will be officially released once the mosaic is completed — people can upload photos of themselves via the site to help fill it in. But in the meantime: Holy Trapezius, Batman!

Yes, JGL is still in Christopher Nolan’s third Batman flick—but a source close to the situation says that recent reports that Gordon-Levitt will play Alberto Falcone (a.k.a. the Holiday Killer), the son of former mob kingpin, Carmine Falcone (Tom Wilkinson), are incorrect. So who do you think Levitt might actually be portraying?

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