The Dark Knight Rises is a 2 012 superhero film directed by Christopher Nolan, featuring the DC Comics character Batman. The film is the third and final installment in Nolan’s Batman film trilogy, and it is the sequel to The Dark Knight (2008). On 20 July 2012 during a midnight showing of the film at the Century 16 cinema in Aurora, Colorado, a gunman wearing a gas mask opened fire inside the theater, killing twelve people and injuring 58 others.
