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Nolan on The Dark Knight Casting!By Ronnie Adams on August 29, 2006
I've just been visiting with Chris Nolan, who’s busy in the editing room, finishing up his next feature, The Prestige. The Prestige reunites Nolan with Christian Bale, whom we all know worked together on Batman Begins. So naturally, there were a few The Dark Knight related questions and we wouldn’t be us if we didn’t try to take advantage of the studios hospitality, and I’m not talking about the craft services table. We managed to get a couple questions off before our interview over. Question: Were you surprised with the critical success across the borad of Batman Begins or was that the reaction you were expecting to get? Nolan: I was very surprised for the simple reason...I felt that we really put our hearts into making a great film and I felt that on our own terms we had succeeded but I never never really expected to satisfy critics and fans, you know the Batman fans, and regular audiences equally. I thought maybe we'd get two points of the triangle but the fact that all three groups seem to respond well, that was a big surprise. It felt like you were going to lose you know one aspect of that somewhere along the line. But, I don't know, we were very fortunate in that regard, it's very gratifying. Question: Because the formula works so well is that something that you're looking to do for The Dark Knight? Nolan: I think, what people responded to most about Batman Begins is how different it was from their expectations. So I think we would be foolish to not recognize that and attempt to do something very different in the sequel. I certainly wouldn't have, you know, any interest in somewhat trying to repeat the experience that the film already made because I think, particularly being an origin story, it's a very unique thing very singular. My interest in the sequel is to move on from there and do something quite different. Question: And Since you did the origin story, it frees you up from having to do the whole introduction, are you expecting to do a whole lot more action the second time around? Nolan: Um, I mean we certainly put a lot of action into Batman Begins through the film even though it didn't involve Batman until 50 minutes in or whatever. So certainly we are free to put Batman into action earlier on. But if you look at the, I mean the rhythm of action movies is very complicated because there is a limit actually to how much action is in the film, how you have to have a particular ebb and flow to what actually works and Batman Begins is pretty stuffed to be honest. But, it didn't all get to involve that character, because it was Bruce Wayne as Batman because of the origin and that we don't have to do. Question: Any truth to any of these rumors about Phillip Seymore Hoffman
or Ryan Phillipe… We will have more on THE PRESTIGE soon!Source:Ronnie Adams
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