Posted on 07/26/2008 3:34:54 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Can you imagine if The Dark Knight was the last Batman film for actor Christian Bale? Clearly no person plays more into the monumental equation of a trilogy starring him than director Christopher Nolan. Bale recently spoke with EW about a second sequel to Batman Begins, or as the odd interviewer incorrectly called it, Batman “film number six”(I counted seven, Peter counted eight with the Adam West film)…
Interviewer: So do you think there will be a part 3 of Batman? Christian Bale: Um, look, let’s wait and see…
Interviewer: Or, I guess it’d be part 6. Christian Bale: No, no, no, no, no. [Smiling] Part 3 is what I’d consider it, yeah, I don’t say part 6. Batman begins - that was the beginning there, with all due respect to the others. We are re-creating this. You know, obviously the decision is out of my hands. I would, knowing the Dark Knight story, I would like very much to complete a trilogy. And I think that knowing the story of The Dark Knight, it leaves you anticipating something that really can get very, very interesting for a third. Now, the question would be: Is Chris going to be doing it? Because to me I find it tricky to imagine working on it without it being a collaboration with Chris.
Sounds good, but it won’t be cheap. Bale was signed for three films way back when, including a Batman “team-up” movie. There was a time when a third film in Nolan’s series was strongly rumored to be the trial of the Joker (screenwriter David Goyer even said so back in 2006) but that piped down even before Heath Ledger’s passing, and Two Face’s appearance in TDK would also negate it.
With general interest already through the roof for TDK partially due to the best early trailer of the summer flock, and one of the strongest viral campaigns ever, the first sequel is going to rock registers and hopefully fanboys’ minds as well. A third film would be ideal and everything points to it happening with Nolan and/or Bale at this stage. But hey, it’s Hollywood, nothing is a sure thing.
Does he talk about bashing his mother and throwing his sister out the window?
John Hamm indeed looks like batman. The only question is can he act?
Nice satire, but let’s not hyperbolize that situation any more than it already has been.
Also, I really don’t see where they go from here.
Do you actually read stories or just headlines? He was booked on a Class 2 misdemeanor for “verbal abuse”, the kind of thought police laws in Britain we should all be against. I’m not excusing it, but are you going to tell me you’ve never yelled at a family member?
According to the last thing I read; his sister wanted a 200K loan from him. I don't recall if it was in Dollars or Pounds Sterling.
Either way it's a serious chunk of change. He said no. Things apparently escalated, and words against his wife were thrown about.
That man has no lips.
One thing I don't understand about the movie (without giving any plot details away) is why did they go through that whole sequence about the district attorney in the last third of the movie? It seemed like the last 40 minutes of the movie contained a subplot to set the D.A. character up for the next movie, but obviously not.
Yeah, the sheen of getting this through Netflix wore off when he started downloading on his own flesh-and-blood. I don’t give a complimentary shit what his reasons were.
Yeah, the sheen of getting this through Netflix wore off when he started downloading on his own flesh-and-blood. I don’t give a complimentary shit what his reasons were.
The wife downloaded a copy and we’re going to check it out tonight but I doubt Bale comes close to Adam West.
I wondered about the same thing. As much as I liked the movie, the plot was not its strong point. A lot of footage that would have made it make more sense probably ended up on the cutting room floor.
The guy beats his mother and sister, no thanks.
I read his mom is clown, literally.
correction: is a clown.
Uh, why do you say that? I just came from seeing the movie tonight. He could be in the next movie. Think about it. Think about what you saw--and DIDN'T see--in the last few minutes.
I personally gathered that Harvey was dead at the end, but I’m willing to listen to the viewpoint that he was not. After all, there was no body or casket at what appeared to be the funeral where Gordon was speaking.
That's right. And they wanted Harvey Dent to die a hero, right? That public image would be good for Gotham. All you saw was a brief clip from a public memorial service. Two-Face lives.
“He was booked on a Class 2 misdemeanor for “verbal abuse”, the kind of thought police laws in Britain we should all be against. I’m not excusing it, but are you going to tell me you’ve never yelled at a family member?”
I can’t remember where I read this - but yesterday I thought it was written somewhere that money was requested by the mom and sister. When it was turned down the mom started insulting his wife.
One friend said he usually walks away from those situations (which gives the impression this wasn’t the first time), but he was trapped in the room with them with press outside.
Argument escalates -tempers flare.
I haven’t seen anything in the claims of mom or sis that contradict that version.
I haven’t seen anyone claim he hit anyone.
Mom is claiming she fell - but it isn’t clear how she fell.
There’s something fishy when mom says to the press - we weren’t trying to ruin the premiere.
I mean - you love your son? There’s a heated family argument and you make it worse by going public and having him arrested?
I withhold judgement on batman until further details emerge.
When Batman was conceived in the 80s, producers should have immediately signed Mel Gibson for the role. Gibson is perfect for Batman (well, he was back then). He had the looks, he had that explosive rage, and that raw vengeance towards his adversaries. Tim Burton really wrecked the franchise, even the original Batman with Jack Nicholson had corny elements in it.
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