Apparently there has been some rumours circling across the web that Chris Nolan's first screening of The Dark Knight Rises to Warner Bros executives was made up of a four hour long cut! I got so many emails about the rumour yesterday (the first few I dismissed as nonsense as we get a lot of those regarding the Batman franchise, some even still suggesting that Aaron Eckhart's villain Two Face is still alive and will turn up in the new movie!!) that I did some hunting and it appears the rumour caught fire at MTV where a joke was taken too literally. In a write up about the rumour that The Dark Knight Rises will premiere at this July's San Diego Comic Con (as we said, a lot of rumours about these movies!), an MTV author wrote that editing for The Dark Knight Rises was presumably in the form of a four-hour rough cut. This was picked up by so many websites that it went viral but thankfully the author of the piece has tweeted to clear up the confusion; I imagine that Nolan's first cut for The Dark Knight Rises will probably be closer to 3 hours long, which he will now be editing down to a more manageable two and a half hours or so. Nolan went pretty long with The Dark Knight Rises that ran for 152 minutes and I imagine you can expect something similar from the new film which hits July 20th, 2012.