Christopher Nolan has revealed his non-comic book inspiration for The Dark Knight Rises.
According to the director, Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities was a major influence on his third Batman film.
Speaking to ComingSoon.net he said: "When [Jonathan Nolan] showed me his first draft of his screenplay, it was 400 pages long or something."
"It had all this crazy stuff in it. As part of a primer when he handed it to me. 'You've got to think of A Tale of Two Cities which, of course, you've read'. I said, 'Absolutely'.
"I read the script and was a little baffled by a few things and realised that I'd never read A Tale of Two Cities. It was just one of those things that I thought I had done.
"Then I got it, read it and absolutely loved it and got completely what he was talking about... When I did my draft on the script, it was all about A Tale of Two Cities."
The Dark Knight Rises will open in cinemas worldwide on July 20.
