From the set pieces of Inception and The Dark Knight Trilogy, you don’t have to look very far to see Christopher Nolan’s various nods and homages to the classic spy series.

Batman Forever was the weediest of the 1990s Batman movies – and ergo the worst entry in the Caped Crusader’s celluloid chronology. It wasn’t as dark and moody as the two Tim Burton films or Christopher Nolan’s greyscale trilogy of gloom, and it wasn’t a camp, so-bad-it’s-funny rubber fetish fest like Batman & Robin, which meant it was just … tedious.

So what better way of making it more appealing to modern audiences than inviting the man to whom Michael Caine owes more than most to sprinkle some of his magic Inception dust over it?

Well, of course, that ain’t going to happen in reality, but we can dream – and some YouTube types did better than that....

Spider-Man has his webs, Superman has his... everything, but Batman has his gadgets. With The Dark Knight Rises in cinemas tomorrow, let’s take a look at the top five Batman gadgets of all time.

If it’s not better than The Dark Knight, it’s at least as good. And that cements Nolan’s Batman series as among the finest trilogies the cinema has ever seen.

The Dark Knight Rises, the final instalment of Christopher Nolan’s epic Batman saga, opens in cinemas this week.

We caught up with stuntman Adam Kirley to discuss performing the spectacular Aston Martin crash in Casino Royale.