Christopher and Jonathan Nolan have named A Tale of Two Cities as the model for The Dark Knight Rises, and the film quotes it at the end: Gordon reads Sydney Carton's closing lines, "It is a far, far better thing that I do", at Bruce Wayne's funeral.
- Bane's Gotham is the Terror: the rich dragged from their homes, a court of the people
- The hero's sacrifice to save a city echoes Carton's
- Dickens is the one text the film puts on screen