Batman Begins was a brand new begin for the superhero, but it surely was additionally meant to be the tip of Christopher Nolan’s foray into the world of The Dark Knight.
The Dark Knight is arguably probably the greatest Batman films to grace the massive display screen, however in accordance with a brand new ebook about director Christopher Nolan, the movie was by no means a part of his plan. As revealed by Slash Film in an excerpt from Ian Nathan’s ebook Christopher Nolan: The Iconic Filmmaker and His Work, Nolan solely ever deliberate to make one Batman film after which step away from what ended up being an entire trilogy starring Christian Bale within the titular function.
Batman Begins rebooted the DC franchise nearly a decade after Batman & Robin introduced the primary huge display screen run of Dark Knight films to a poorly obtained finish. While the film ended with a tease of a sequel, plainly Christopher Nolan didn’t actually plan on following up on it, however issues didn’t end up as anticipated. The excerpt revealed:
“For once, it was a trick he pulled on himself. The playing card that Gary Oldman’s stalwart police officer James Gordon reveals in a Ziploc at the end of Batman Begins – the Joker, naturally – was intended as a tingle of anticipation and possibility to send the audience home with, no more than that. Christopher Nolan had no intention of maintaining a franchise; he had done his superhero bit, bringing Batman back from his decline into camp, and wanted to be away to pursue more personal, original material. This was only a tease, or at best a departing offering to the studio – the enticing question of what a revamped (as far as fans were concerned, a Nolanized) Joker might resemble. ‘We wanted to suggest possibilities for how the story would continue,’ he claimed, ‘not because we were going to make a sequel.’”
What If The Dark Knight Hadn’t Been Made?
Batman Begins was an honest rebirth for the long-lasting DC hero. A gritty, real-world Batman in a Gotham metropolis filled with darkish and harmful criminals fairly than a bunch of brightly coloured, gimmicky comic-book characters spouting one-liners. However, whereas Liam Neeson’s Ra’s al Ghul, Cillian Murphy’s Scarecrow and Tom Wilkinson’s Carmine Falcone have been respectable sufficient villains for any Batman film to have on board, they paled compared to the arrival of Heath Ledger’s Joker in The Dark Knight.
The sequel could not have been deliberate by Nolan, but it surely delivered a tour de pressure. The Oscar-winning efficiency by Ledger, nearly tripled the gross of Batman Begins to change into the primary Batman film to take over $1 billion on the field workplace, and led to The Dark Knight Rises, which stays the highest-grossing Batman film thus far. Sometimes, plainly issues can simply work out in methods that can’t be anticipated, and whereas film sequels are nearly anticipated with any huge property, Nolan’s intention to make only one film and step apart proves that the filmmakers behind among the most extremely regarded sequels in cinematic historical past aren’t at all times on board with the thought of changing into embroiled in a considerable dedication to at least one multi-movie undertaking and not using a little coaxing.