Batman had to come back, says Christopher Nolan

New Delhi: Despite ‘not so favourable’ reviews, ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ has done well at the box office. Said to be the epic conclusion of the Batman franchise, the film is the third and the last film of the series after ‘Batman Begins’ and ‘The Dark Knight’. The director of the series, Christopher Nolan was aware of the hype and expectations of the common movie goers, thus he had written a piece during the shoot of ‘The Dark Knight Rises’. This article, published on the website www.reddit.com, is actually the foreword of the 'The Art and Making of The Dark Knight Trilogy' book.

He writes, “People ask if we’d always planned a trilogy. This is like being asked whether you had planned on growing up, getting married, having kids. The answer is complicated. When David and I first started cracking open Bruce’s story, we flirted with what might come after, then backed away, not wanting to look too deep into the future. I didn’t want to know everything that Bruce couldn’t; I wanted to live it with him.”

His growth as a filmmaker was simultaneous with the development of Bruce Wayne’s story, “I never thought we’d do a second—how many good sequels are there? Why roll those dice? But once I knew where it would take Bruce, and when I started to see glimpses of the antagonist, it became essential. We re-assembled the team and went back to Gotham. It had changed in three years. Bigger. More real. More modern. And a new force of chaos was coming to the fore. The ultimate scary clown, as brought to terrifying life by Heath.”

A gunman opened fire early on Friday at a movie theater in the Denver suburb of Aurora (Colorado, USA), killing 12 people and injuring at least 50 others.
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The shooting occurred during a showing of the latest Batman movie 'The Dark Knight Rises', police said.
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The gunman stood at the front of one of the Century 16 theaters at the Aurora Mall. "Witnesses tell us he released some sort of canister. They heard a hissing sound and some gas emerged and the gunman opened fire," Oates said at a news conference.
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Aurora Police Chief Daniel Oates talks to media at Aurora Mall.
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One suspect is in custody and there's no evidence of any additional shooters, Oates said.
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People gather outside the Century 16 movie theatre in Aurora, Colo., at the scene of a mass shooting early Friday morning, July 20, 2012.
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An Aurora Police officer talks on his radio outside of the Century 16 theater at Aurora Mall.
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Police are pictured outside of a Century 16 movie theatre where as many as 12 people were killed and many injured at a shooting during the showing of a movie at the in Aurora, Colo., Friday, July 20, 2012.
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Police are pictured outside of a Century 16 movie theatre.
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An Aurora Police Department detective takes a witness statement following a shooting Friday morning July 20, 2012.
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A man reacts after arriving at Children's Hospital in Aurora, CO, Friday, July 20, 2012.
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Police gather near an apartment house where the suspect in a shooting at a movie theatre lived in Aurora, Colo., Friday, July 20, 2012.
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A SWAT team officer stands watch near an apartment house where the suspect in a shooting at a movie theatre lived in Aurora, Colo., Friday, July 20, 2012.
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This video image taken from ABC via AP video shows an aerial view of the Century 16 movie theater in Aurora, Colo., where a gunman wearing a gas mask set off an unknown gas and fired into the crowded movie theater at a midnight opening of the Batman movie 'The Dark Knight Rises'.
Judy Goos, second from left, hugs her daughters friend, Isaiah Bow, 20, while eye witnesses Emma Goos, 19, left, and Terrell Wallin, 20, right, gather outside Gateway High School where witness were brought for questioning Friday, July 20, 2012 in Denver.
Jacob Stevens, 18, hugs his mother Tammi Stevens after being interview by police outside Gateway High School where witness were brought for questioning.
Shamecca Davis hugs her son Isaiah Bow, who was an eye witness to the shooting, outside Gateway High School where witness were brought for questioning Friday, July 20, 2012 in Denver.

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Batman had to come back, says Christopher Nolan

Christopher Nolan, the director of \'The Dark Knight Rises\' talks about his attachment to the Batman franchise.

Nolan further writes, “We’d held nothing back, but there were things we hadn’t been able to do the first time out—a Batsuit with a flexible neck, shooting on Imax. And things we’d chickened out on—destroying the Batmobile, burning up the villain’s blood money to show a complete disregard for conventional motivation. We took the supposed security of a sequel as license to throw caution to the wind and headed for the darkest corners of Gotham.”

The write-up is an example of how objective can a filmmaker be, “Michael, Morgan, Gary, Cillian, Liam, Heath, Christian . . . Bale. Names that have come to mean so much to me. My time in Gotham, looking after one of the greatest and most enduring figures in pop culture, has been the most challenging and rewarding experience a filmmaker could hope for. I will miss the Batman. I like to think that he’ll miss me, but he’s never been particularly sentimental.”

The mindless shooting at a Colorado theater has dampened the spirit of movie enthusiasts but let’s hope that it won’t take long before the Dark Knight rises again, in his fans’ hearts.