TDKR IMAX Prologue In December!

Last week's chatter that the six-minute prologue for Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises will appear in front of copies of "Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol" on December 16th seems a realiity.

AMC Theatres confirmed it today in a blog posting, but have since "retracted until further notice".

The prologue will ONLY screen at 70mm IMAX screens, not at the smaller or lower-res 'digital IMAX' locations.

Christian Bale Tom Hardy Anne Hathaway, Joseph Gordon-Levitt Marion Cotillard Josh Pence, Alon Aboutboul and Nestor Carbonell star along with return of the trilogy's ensemble cast such as Morgan Freeman Gary Oldman and Michael Caine Cillian Murphy might be making a cameo

Matthew Modine Tom Conti 11-year-old actress Joey King Daniel Sunjata Diego Klattenhoff Christopher Judge "CSI: Miami" co-star Adam Rodriguez and Burn Gorman take on secondary roles. Rob Brown and Italian actor Massi Furlan have small roles in the film as well

Nolan calls action on the DKR from a screenplay he wrote with bro Jonathan Nolan, from a story by Nolan and David S. Goyer

The sequel is set to hit theaters on July 20th, 2012.