“The Dark Knight Rises” is not due out until sometime in 2012 but producers of the fans have decided to release a pic of Tom Hardy playing one of the film’s villains, Bane. Filming for Christopher Nolan’s final Batman installment began two weeks ago and is expected to take several months to finish. New cast members have also been revealed, find out who will be joining Tom, Christian Hale, Anne Hathaway, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Gary Oldman, and more after the jump!

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Full Metal Jacket’s Matthew Modine (on left), Derailed’s Tom Conti (right) and 11 year old Joey King (insert) have been added to the cast.