By the Numbers: Breaking Down the New Dark Knight Rises Trailer

After premiering this past weekend before Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows screenings, the latest official trailer for The Dark Knight Rises has hit the Internet today. Depicting a Gotham City eight years after the events in 2008’s The Dark Knight, the trailer teases societal upheaval, (literally) explosive football plays and best of all, two new villains: Anne Hathaway’s Catwoman (or at least, Selina Kyle) and Tom Hardy’s mysterious, mumbling Bane. Let’s parse the trailer the only way we know how: By the numbers. Seconds of the ominous national anthem played: 8 Melodramatic confessions made by Alfred: 1 Number of mohawked and muzzled villains who prefer the comforts of a lambswool jacket lining: 1 (Bane!) Percentage of muscle mass Tom Hardy appears to have lost between filming Warrior and Dark Knight: 0 Mansions being ransacked: 1 Number of impressively calm prison breaks: 1 Number of fictional football players named after the current Mayor of Pittsburgh: 1 (Ravenstahl) Number of fictional football teams playing in Steelers colors: 1, the Gotham Rogues Number of touchdowns made by Hines Ward amidst Heinz Field explosions: 1 Number of masquerade balls set at the Carnegie Museum of Art: 1 Number of Academy Award-nominated actresses at said masquerade ball: 2 Number of Academy Award-winning actresses at said masquerade ball: 1 Seconds of precious Joseph Gordon-Levitt screen time: 1 Punches thrown by Batman: 2 Number of hovercrafts shown: 1 Number of heavily-choreographed Gotham City fistfights: 1 Number of seconds I spent confused by Tom Hardy’s Silence of the Lambs-style mouthpiece: 30 Christopher Nolan’s final Batman installment premieres in theaters July 20, 2012. To view the trailer in HD, head over to Apple. [via Apple]