Christian Bale opens up a bit about BATMAN 3
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- By drvenkman
I imagine we have about three more years before we see the next Batman movie, but it is something that is going to happen with or without Christopher Nolan. Christian Bale recently began talking about it I am sure that once the press is set loose on Terminator Salvation everyone will be asking about Batman 3. Totalfilm caught up with Bale recently and here is what he had to say regarding the next Batman movie.
“Will we do a third movie? It’s got to be the right story. You can’t make something like The Dark Knight and then come out with something disappointing.”
“I would like it if people say, ‘You’ll never make a good third movie.’ I say, ‘OK, let’s make a third movie in that case, let’s prove them wrong. But that’s just me. The fact is, I have to! I’ve signed up! Chris doesn’t. So I’m in a bit of a fix if he says he doesn’t want to!”
I really do hope Nolan comes back for the third Batman film, because if he doesn’t not only is Bale in a bit of fix but so are the fans. The majority of the fans want Nolan to come back for a third, if he bails on it I think the fans are going to be very upset. I don’t think he will though. Warner Bros. is taking good care of him letting him make his new sci-fi film ‘Inception’ which I am really looking forward too, and giving him the the time he needs to make a third Batman film that will be just as good or better than the last one. The guy has got a very creative imagination, I’m pretty sure he’ll come up with a great story.
A third movie would be good, especially after how Batman told the Joker that they were done professionally.
The studio would be stupid to attempt to create a sequel without Chris Nolan. He’s part of what made these movies the amazing films they are.That just doesn’t make sense to me from a production view. Nolans style is what these Batman films us as a foundation.
That being said,if they go with a new director,I would keep an open mind towards Batman 3
it’s only right that Nolan finish the trilogy he started.
One of the main reasons why the second film was so successful was due to the late Heath Ledger. Yes, his death ramped up the sales and PR of this movie. Everyone thinks it, but not many people actually say it.
However, that does not change the fact that the Joker was possibly his greatest performance ever – so great, in fact, that he was taking anti-depressants for falling so fully into his character. (I have no direct ties to Heath Ledger, therefore I can by no means confirm this suspicion, but it would make quite a bit of sense.)
Although the place in my heart for Micheal Keaton and Jack Nicholson’s performances as the same characters, I’ve opened myself up to Bale and Ledger’s versions because they were equally amazing (and perfectly cast, I might add).
I would never have looked at Heath Ledger and said to myself “That guy would make a great Joker.” It just proves to us all that he truly had it in him to go outside the box with his acting abilities.
Anyway, enough said about Ledger’s role as Joker. The third movie definately has big shoes to fill on the subject of acting performances as well as financial gains.
I predict it will do very well but I doubt it will make the same financial marks as The Dark Knight did. It will be good as long as Nolan sticks with it through the trilogy, don’t get me wrong, but I don’t foresee any movies in the near future reaching the same level of hype as the second Batman movie did. (Mainly due to Heath Ledger’s death.)