According to Variety, DC's animated adaptation of Knightfall—the iconic comic arc where Bane shatters the Dark Knight's spine—premiered at the Annecy Festival. The film stars Anson Mount as Batman and Michael Mando as Bane, bringing the graphic novel's brutal confrontation to animation. The Knightfall arc inspired Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises and remains one of DC's most memorable Batman stories.

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