{"id":59164,"date":"2012-07-19T00:44:15","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T05:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=59164"},"modified":"2012-07-19T00:46:07","modified_gmt":"2012-07-19T05:46:07","slug":"nolan-reveals-rings-inspiration-behind-the-dark-knight-rises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/07\/19\/59164-nolan-reveals-rings-inspiration-behind-the-dark-knight-rises\/","title":{"rendered":"Nolan says Rings inspired The Dark Knight Rises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/07\/19\/59164-nolan-reveals-rings-inspiration-behind-the-dark-knight-rises\/christopher-nolan-reveals-tolkien-inspiration-for-the-dark-knight-rises_small\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-59174\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-59174 no-lazyload\" title=\"Christopher Nolan reveals Tolkien inspiration for 'The Dark Knight Rises'_small\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Christopher-Nolan-reveals-Tolkien-inspiration-for-The-Dark-Knight-Rises_small-300x153.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Christopher-Nolan-reveals-Tolkien-inspiration-for-The-Dark-Knight-Rises_small-300x153.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Christopher-Nolan-reveals-Tolkien-inspiration-for-The-Dark-Knight-Rises_small.jpg 413w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> In an interview with <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Entertainment Weekly<\/span> the film director of the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Batman<\/span> trilogy <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Christopher Nolan<\/span>, reveals how <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Lord of the Rings<\/span> trilogy helped him to wrap up the epic series with &#8216;<em>The Dark Knight Rises&#8217;<\/em>.\u00a0 He stated how difficult film trilogies tend to be, saying:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;There are very few very great third films, I think in some cases dissatisfaction with third films comes from the sheer exhaustion of the people making it&#8221;.<\/em> He then went on to tell how <em><\/em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Peter Jackson&#8217;s<\/span> work on <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Lord of the Rings<\/span> acted as inspiration for his own crew &#8220;<em>I will cop to this: &#8216;The Lord of the Rings&#8217; trilogy was in the back of our minds the entire time we were making these<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/christopher-nolan-reveals-tolkien-inspiration-for-the-dark-knight-rises\">More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview with Entertainment Weekly the film director of the Batman trilogy Christopher Nolan, reveals how The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lotr-movies","category-miscellaneous"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO Pro 4.9.9 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In an interview with Entertainment Weekly the film director of the Batman trilogy Christopher Nolan, reveals how The Lord of the Rings trilogy helped him to wrap up the epic series with &#039;The Dark Knight Rises&#039;. 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