Guess Who's Coming To The Dark Knight Rises?

Don't read if you're a spoiler-pussy. You just know the first full-on trailer will let the cat out of the bag. But I'll be brief nonetheless.

Given the rumored story-arc involving Talia al Ghul, Bane and the League of Shadows as the baddies blended together with those spy-pictures of what may, or may not, be the Lazarus Pit, this revelation isn't jaw-dropping per say. But it's surprising in that it heavily suggests Christopher Nolan will follow in the foot-steps of The Prestige and throw in an other-worldly aspect to The Dark Knight Rises after all that talk about making his Batman trilogy "realistic."

Hit Fix reveals Liam Neeson reported for filming of one scene, that we know of so far, for the Batman threequel as the title hero's mentor-turned-nemesis Ra's al Ghul from Batman Begins. Whether this is a flashback (since Josh Pence will also play the character via flashback) or his character is resurrected from the dead remains to be seen.

Again all we have to do is look at The Prestige to know it's not 100% out of the realm of possibility Nolan could head in this direction.