There are sure to be plenty more spoofs and parodies when The Dark Knight Rises finally hits theaters in July, but one mash-up of the trailer is already getting attention for its perfect match of the audio of The Dark Knight Rises and visuals from The Lion King.

The animated Disney movie and the Warner Bros. action film may seem like strange bedfellows, but if you watch the clip, you'll find that the sync is close to perfect.

Two new stills from The Dark Knight Rises have surfaced online: one of Batman, wielding a strange-looking weapon, and another of Bane, shielding his chest in an intense pose.

In one of the most memorable scenes for the recently released trailer for The Dark Knight Rises, NFL player Hines Ward can be seen running for a touchdown as the football field collapses behind him.

This is not the Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver’s first time in front of the cameras in a non-football game role -– he is a former Dancing with the Stars champion.

Audience interest in next summer’s The Dark Knight Rises is ramping up thanks to Imax screenings of an extended prologue before Mission: Impossible -- Ghost Protocol and the debut online of the film’s trailer  Monday.

The blogosphere was abuzz Thursday night with reactions to an eight-minute preview of The Dark Knight Rises that was unveiled to press by Warner Bros. and Christopher Nolan.

The preview, which will be seen later this month in select IMAX theaters before Mission: Impossible -- Ghost Protocol, introduced Bane, the Batman movie's major villain, played by a masked Tom Hardy. The footage revolved around a heist involving a plane.

Warner Bros. and Christopher Nolan showed off about eight minutes of footage from The Dark Knight Rises on Thursday night, a preview that will be seen later this month in select IMAX 70mm theatres before Mission: Impossible -- Ghost Protocol.

The majority of the preview introduced audiences to Bane, the Batman movie's major villain, played by a masked Tom Hardy. Without giving too much away, the footage revolved around a heist involving a plane.

In a recent interview, Warner Bros.' reigning Batman, Christian Bale, confirmed that Christopher Nolan's upcoming The Dark Knight Rises will be his final turn in the superhero's cape. 

Christian Bale has hung up his iconic Batman cape for good.

The actor has played Bruce Wayne and his superhero alter ego in all three films in Christopher Nolan's trilogy -- the last of which, The Dark Knight Rises, recently wrapped shooting for a July 20 release.

PHOTOS: 'The Dark Knight Rises' First Look: On the Set

Christopher Nolan has gone overboard to guard the plot details of upcoming Batman threequel, The Dark Knight Rises, including at one point reportedly refusing to let the cast know the ending.

But now he's spilling a few secrets about the movie in a new interview with Empire magazine.