1. It Started With A Half Remembered Dream
Anyone whos spent any time studying Christopher Nolans working methods knows that endings are central to him. The Dark Knight Rises was no different indeed, even more than the other films in the trilogy, The Dark Knight Rises would need to provide a conclusive and definitive ending. Fittingly enough for the man who directed Inception, the solution to The Dark Knight Rises story came subconsciously; in the introduction to the book of screenplays for The Dark Knight Trilogy, Nolan told interviewer/co-producer Jordan Goldberg that I actually had a dream about what I thought the ending for the film would be. Theres an important component of that dream that is in the ending of the existing film...For me, thats everything in this kind of story, to know where you want it to go. And then it took years and years for all of us to figure out how to get there.