Director Christopher NolanThe Batman trilogy is one of the best crafted and perfectly executed superhero stories in the history of superhero cinema, but Nolan, known for his original storytelling, and not so much for sequels, almost stopped after the success of Batman begins.
He liked the story it told and was reluctant to pull the trigger on another film, afraid that he might be pigeonholed strictly into the role of superhero director.
Co-writer of the trilogy and brother of the director, Jonathan Nolanhe recently spoke about this time period and his brother’s trepidation in an interview on the “Armchair Expert” podcast with Dax Shepard.
“I worked on ‘Batman Begins’ in this slightly handy capacity, but it was the only comic my brother ever gave me as a child, ‘Batman: Year One,’ for my 14th birthday, and 10 years I was up on set working with him afterwards, remembering thinking ‘this is crazy.'”
“Chris was on the fence about doing another one,” Jonathan continued, noting that Chris went straight from there Batman begins in directing the wizard thriller The prestige. “He didn’t want to be a superhero movie director.”
Jonathan said Chris was “very proud”. Batman begins, but “to me it was like we built this amazing sports car and I thought, ‘Let’s take it for a spin.’ Don’t you want to do another one?’”
Jonathan remembered telling Chris:
“We spent an hour telling the origin story, and it’s great, but it’s like, ‘what? [more] we can do it?’ Can we take the same characters and move into a different genre a little? Can we go from an adventure film to a crime film to a mafia film and bring that feeling in?”
“So I was literally sitting with [producer] Charles Roven and Chris and they were like, “Dude, don’t be an asshole.” Let’s do it!’ And I knew that with the script – and he developed the story with David Goyer with a little input from me – it was like the first act was detailed, the second act was a little detailed, the third act… uh, whatever it goes to the end – once we had the script finished, I thought, “This is going to be great.” This is exciting. We have to make this movie.’ And eventually, it came around. He managed to avoid being pigeonholed.”
It’s good that Jonathan was able to give his brother the push he needed to move forward and complete this amazing trilogy.
via: Variety
by Jessica Fisher
Source: Geek Tyrant
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