We got to see a little bit of Bane's backstory in The Dark Knight Rises, but according to costume designer Lindy Hemming, there was even more footage shot that never made it into the movie. Hemming, who still hasn't seen the final cut of The Dark Knight Rises, talked about some of the deleted scenes involving Bane's backstory in a recent interview with GQ:
The thing that you should have seen during that sequence is [Bane] being injured in his youth. So one of the fundamental things about his costume is that he has this scar from the back injury. Even if he hasn’t got the bulletproof vest on, he still has to wear the waist belt and the braces. In that scene in the prison, where he’s learning to fight the same way Batman learned to fight, he’s wearing an early version of his waist belt. It’s showing support, but it’s not the finished one he eventually wears. He’s also wearing an early version of his gas mask, all glued together … If you look at the film, unless they’ve cut it—and I’m sure they haven’t—there’s a whole early section for Tom Hardy where he’s fighting and being taunted by people. He’s got chains on him, and he’s standing on a wooden thing while people are attacking him. And in that scene, he’s wearing a much more ragged, primitive version of the mask.
When told that the scene didn't make it into the final cut, Hemming added:
Well that’s an awful shame, but I suppose you have to cut things. I won’t elaborate on it too much, because it isn’t in the film, but there was another section that showed you why he had the mask and where it came from.
Concept artist Sebastian Lochmann shared some early designs of Bane's back scarring but the scars ended up being much less severe in actual movie (unlike Bruce Wayne's punishment, which was more serve).
Hopefully we'll get to see these scenes when The Dark Knight Rises comes out on DVD and Blu-ray later this year. Don't hold your breath though, Christopher Nolan is not known for including unused footage.
SOURCE: GQ [via /Film, Comic Book Movie]
