8 Incredible Ways Movie Spoilers Were Kept Secret

Whenever a Christopher Nolan film is released, it's going to have the eyes of the online movie world fixated upon it. The director is notorious for his mind-bending plots, with nearly all of his movies defying audience expectations at every conceivable turn.

The finale of his Batman trilogy was no different, and because it had the pressure of two great predecessors weighing heavily on its shoulders, anticipation for this third instalment was as high as it can possibly get.

Nolan was insistent that information about the film be kept on a need-to-know basis, and this is no more evident than by looking at the steps he took to ensure that Bruce Wayne's funeral scene remained a secret.

The director had his art department build a gravestone - to physically use in the scene - with the name Miranda Tate written across it, which was then digitally replaced with Bruce Wayne in post-production.

Nolan also brought Christian Bale down to the set on the day the funeral scene was shot; this way, his name would be on the call sheet, so if it leaked, nobody would suspect it was Bruce's funeral. Having Bale on set was also a good way to trick any paparazzi that may have been lurking on the day.

And in the end, it worked. Bruce's funeral remained a secret until the day the movie came out, and was all the more emotionally impactful for it.