Batman Star Christian Bale Was Unhappy With Christopher Nolan’s $998M Movie
The Dark Knight, a 2008 film directed by Christopher Nolan and based on the DC Comics superhero Batman, debuted with Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Heath Ledger, Morgan Freeman, and others. The film was The Dark Knight Trilogy’s second entry and the follow-up to 2005’s Batman Begins.
The 1980s Batman comics and crime drama movies served as inspiration for Christopher Nolan and his brother Jonathan Nolan as they prepared the screenplay for the motion picture. The film was one of the highest-grossing films in 2008 and is regarded as one of the most highly regarded Batman films. It was praised at the time for its mature themes and tone. Christian Bale, meanwhile, did not enjoy the film.
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Christian Bale said Heath Ledger’s Joker was much more interesting
During an interview with Yahoo Movies, Christian Bale, who was portraying Bruce Wayne in the movie said,
“Heath [Ledger] turned up and just kind of completely ruined all my plans. I went, ‘He’s so much more interesting than me and what I’m doing.’ Batman, he’s just this very, very, very dark, messed-up character. I found when I put on the [Batman] suit, I felt like, ‘I just feel like a bloody idiot if I don’t use this as a means of — it’s kind of his true monstrous self that he allows to come out in that moment.’ ”
Bale, who has been appreciated for his portrayal of the character, believed that the problem was not with Heath Ledger’s performance but his own dissatisfaction with his performance. The actor noted,
“I didn’t quite manage what I hoped I would throughout the trilogy. Chris [Nolan] did, but my own sense of self is like, ‘I didn’t quite nail it.’”
The actor, however, pointed out that they did their best, adding that he had nothing else to offer. After Christian Bale said bye to the character of Batman, Ben Affleck was brought in to play the iconic character.
Christian Bale on returning as Batman sometime in the future
The actor who played the character of Gorr the God Butcher in Marvel Studios’ Thor: Love and Thunder was asked during an interview with ComicBook if he would ever return to DC to play Batman once again, to which he said,
“That would be a matter of Chris Nolan. If he ever decided to do it again, and if he chose to come my way again, then, yeah, I would consider it. Because that was always our pact with each other. We said we would only ever make three, and then I said to myself that I’d only ever make it with Chris.”
Christopher Nolan was asked while he was promoting his recent movie Oppenheimer and was on a press tour for it if he would ever make another superhero movie and he said no. The reason could be the fact that Nolan might have to return to Warner Bros., who owns the rights to the DC superhero, and Nolan and Warner Bros. parted ways during the release of his movie Tenet.
Christian Bale to voice Shoichi Maki in The Boy and the Heron
According to reports by Empire, Christian Bale, Robert Pattinson, Florence Pugh, Willem Dafoe, Dave Bautista, etc., have been roped in to voice the characters in the English version of the Japanese anime movie, Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron.
Bale is going to voice the character of Shoichi Maki and the English language dub was made in alignment with the SAG-AFTRA Foreign Dubbing Agreement. The movie will be released internationally on December 8th and is a semi-autobiographical movie which is Miyazaki’s first animated feature in ten years and is loosely based on Genzaburo Yoshino’s novel How Do You Live?
Robert Pattinson is set to voice The Gray Heron, Florence Pugh as Kiriko, Dave Bautista as The Parakeet King and Luca Padovan is going to voice the protagonist, Mahito Maki.
