With all the buzz about Superman/Batman 2015, many fans if not everyone on this site is wondering, who is going to play Batman? There are probably a hundred other questions about this movie and the castint, but one question I've seen over and over is the question "are Nolan and Bale retunring?"
The official answers are that Nolan and Bale are done and aren't returning for this movie, but why? This film has the potential to be the next biggest event in CBM history. The world's two most famous superheros in one movie. I'm 100% that this movie will break the billion dollar mark in a matter of weeks because of its shear star power potential. My big question is why won't Nolan and Bale at least consider it?
A lot of you readers are probably saying, TDK trilogy is done and over, you can't continue that franchise. False. I've seen at least 20 different ways that Batman, Christian Bale, can return to Gotham and continue his legacy. All of them make sense and only the hardcore comic book readers will fight it, but the rest of the public will go along with it. This movie has so much potential that both Nolan and Bale can capitalize on that it doesn't make sense for them to downright decline it. From all the articles I've read, most of the world regards Christian Bale as the best Batman on screen ever, so why dissapoint fans? Why not become even more of an international celebrity in this movie? Nolanism, that's why.
A couple years ago, I was a die-hard Nolan fan and loved everything he did, but lately, my opinion on Christopher Nolan is changing. Part of my love for him was still a high from seeing the Dark Knight and knowing that a third was coming, but after TDKR, I saw the side of Nolan that wasn't fan favoring. Christopher Nolan is in this buisness primarily for himself. I know that sounds harsh, so think of it like this, Christopher Nolan cares more about what his interest toward new projects are than what his fans think. I think that is almost pretensious and downright cocky. At this point, I'm sure Nolan knows that there is a hardcore following for him that will see his next movies no matter what, but what I think Nolan is failing to realize is that he became very famous BECAUSE of Batman and he will lose a lot of following because his new movies aren't Batman or something JLA related. Inception did well because it was released during that franchise which sparked fan-interest, but if it was released outside of the franchise, I think it wouldn't have done as well. I think Christophe Nolan is predicting that Interstellar is going to do phenomenally well because, well, it's him. I think that Interstellar will do well, but not remarkably well as expected because his Dark Knight following is gone. I will still go see Interstellar, but not because it is a Christopher Nolan film. It sounds promising from different captions about the movie.
Back to my point, I think that the people out there who are begging Christopher Nolan to come back should rethink their choices. TDKR was kind of mess because Nolan obviously didn't care as much as before. He wanted to move on to another movie and ignored important details in the movie. To me, that shows that he really doesn't repect his fans to care about a film that is based on such a coveted chracter. I could tell that Nolan is focused on his own projects and really doesn't respect his fans. I would absolutely love it if Christopher Nolan returned to Superman/Batman 2015, but only if he wanted to. I think that he can do amazing work, but if he is forced to do something, like TDKR, it will be messy. I think people like Christopher Nolan should take a more active stance is understanding what the fans want and what they don't. I'm not saying that a film-maker should listen to fans blankly, but look at Hugh Jackman. He is going on 7 films as the same character. That is true passion. He does it because he knows the fans love it and he loves it. Sure, Jackman can move on to something else, but he knows that if he leaves the X-men, he might suffer a reputation hit because the cult of superhero movie viewers is growing to immense numbers, and they will most likely "boycott" his other projects. I use boycott lightly because what I mean is that the superhero movie fan-base is becoming such a large amount of viewers that they should be taken into consideration. So if Jackman moves onto some other franchise, god forbid some other superhero, he won't be accepted very easily.
Basically, what I'm trying to show is that people that adore Christopher Nolan and call him the "godfather of DC movies" should stop. Nolan did Batman to tell that story and renvision that character. I'm sure he expected a large fan base to come, but he was probably hit by surprise with the overwhelming numbers TDK reached. Nolan wants to work on his projects and isn't to particuraly interested in what his fans want. If you want a good superhero movie, get someone who wants to do it and do it well. For example, my mom will tell my sister 'do the dishes' and she will, but she will do them sloppily. She gets the job done, but its not really what my mom wanted. Then, if my mom just leaves the dishes to pile-up, my sister after a while will do them, and she'll do them well because she gets tired of the garbage piling up. So in this case, Nolan is my sister and he needs to want to do something otherwise, it won't be of good quality. I am just baffled still on why Nolan doesn't want to be a part of this movie in 2015. It will be a hit even if it sucks, so why make it suck? Why does Christopher Nolan have absolutely no interest whatsoever in it? WHY?
Now, the other part of this article is about Christian Bale and the others like him. The issue I have with Bale is his thinking towards Batman as well. Why on Earth doesn't Bale consider returning as Batman? What does he have coming up that is, well big like this? I appreciate that pretty much everyone in the Dark Knight trilogy, excluding Bale, has expressed some sort of interest in returning for a sequel. That is fan dedication along with character dedication. Anne Hathaway says she'll do a Catwoman movie in a heartbeat in Nolan asks her. I personally would love to see that and I'm sure a lot of the world would too, so why can't it be done? Partly because Nolan doesn't want to, but also because Anne Hathway has been sucked into Nolan's Army of Actors. Nolan frequently uses the same actors in his movies , like Christian Bale, Marion Cottilard, and Michael Caine, and he is training them to follow their passions, not fans. This is kind of angering. I feel like if you asked Bale during Batman Begins if he'd do a JLA film, he'd probably be where Henry Cavill is right now, eager, but not too set on it. But now, he is just against it. Basically, I think that Nolan's Army is becoming the actors in Hollywood who become engrossed in a part, and move on because its their own interest. Look at some of the dedicated actors out there like Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow, Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, and Andrew Garfield as Spiderman. All three as didicated to their parts and continue to make movies not only because they have interest, but their fans love them. So, I think that Nolan and Bale should take this new movie with more of an open-mind because there is so much potential and the fans will gladly accept them in the movie if they would only get on board. I think that when you create a franchise as strong as TDK, there is some respect to the fans that should be made in some way or another.