From the good folks at /Film comes the news that Christopher Nolan’s Bat-epic will feature well nigh unto an hour of eye-popping IMAX-shot footage.

Here’s the skinny:

“Tonight at the Hollywood presentation of The Dark Knight Rises prologue, I got an opportunity to speak briefly with director Christopher Nolan. He reiterated part of his introduction, stating that film is very special to him and that the 70mm IMAXpresentation replicates the magic of going to movies from his childhood. After seeing the first 6 minutes of Rises in IMAX, I wouldn’t recommend that anyone see the movie any other way (and I haven’t even seen one twentieth of the movie).”

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