The men in the masks – It’s Batman vs. Bane in this summer blockbuster

This month, Gotham City gets rocked, not by Occupy Wall Street protests, but instead by Bane, a ruthless, masked revolutionary whose army takes the DC Comics megalopolis by surprise. Inciting a violent uprising of criminals and the poor, including Catwoman, who engage Bruce Wayne and the city’s elite in a class war, Bane quickly puts Gotham under his boot.

The 99% will love this one.

Of course, if the $1 billion-plus worldwide box office receipt for 2008’s The Dark Knight is any indication, most everyone will love The Dark Knight Rises, the capstone to director Christopher Nolan’s ambitious trilogy that kicked off in 2005 with Batman Begins. Rises is rumored to round out the story by including a connection to Begins‘ villain—Liam Neeson’s R’as al Ghul—and leaping ahead eight years after the Joker’s chaotic crime spree to a time of peace and prosperity for some and crippling poverty for others.

Bane forces the haves and have-nots to collide in a Tale of Two Cities-style throw-down that both Bruce Wayne and his alter ego will be hard-pressed to survive.

Christian Bale, Michael Caine and Gary Oldman return. Tom Hardy, Anne Hathaway and Joseph Gordon-Levitt co-star. The Dark Knight Rises hits theaters July 20. Rated PG-13.