Batman Writer Points Out Never-Before-Revealed Keaton & Bale Difference
Batman Returns writer Daniel Waters pokes fun at Christian Bale's speeches in Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight movies. The former film released in 1992 as Tim Burton's sequel to 1989's Batman, which kicked off Warner Bros. initial movie series based on the DC superhero. In the mid-2000s, Nolan rebooted the franchise with Bale in the starring role, ultimately directing a trilogy comprised of Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, and The Dark Knight Rises.
Nolan's trilogy was by design quite different from the Burton and Joel Schumacher movies that made up the initial WB Batman series, and this can really be traced back to the reception of Batman Returns. While a critical and financial success, Burton's movie received backlash from parents who considered it too dark for children, and studio executives in part credited this vision with the decline in box-office performance respective to the '89 Batman. Schumacher's two sequels pursued a lighter tone, though the silliness of Batman & Robin effectively killed the franchise, and Nolan's gritty reboot succeeded because it was as far from that interpretation as possible.
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In an interview with Vulture, however, Waters notes that Nolan's Dark Knight movies got less realistic in at least one respect. Recalling the freedom he had when working with the comic book characters, the screenwriter says he initially gave Michael Keaton's Batman many long speeches about the state of Gotham, only for the actor to tell him that Bruce Wayne would keep his statements brief while wearing the cowl. Waters then says how funny it was to see Nolan do away with this rule, and force Bale to keep up his famously gravelly Batman-voice
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