The Dark Knight Rises gets a bright and arty teaser poster. And I'm the one millionth movie blogger to show it to you!

For what it's worth, this is easily the artiest (and brightest) piece of poster art for any Chris Nolan Batman picture.  As is to be expected, it tells you nothing about the story or the characters, other than to suggest a figurative (or literal?) crumbling of Gotham City in the wake of The Dark Knight.  Yes, the crumbling buildings do bring to mind Inception, just as the initial Inception poster art resembled The Dark Knight character posters.  I'm really just rambling here (share YOUR thoughts below...), but it's a nice bit of marketing and I certainly look forward to seeing the trailer whenever it becomes available online (unless Warner is nice enough to show it to us at Wednesday night's IMAX Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part II screening).  This one comes out July 20th, 2012.  As always, we'll see...

Scott Mendelson