Christopher Nolan Says His Batman Films Had One Advantage Over Contemporary Superhero Movies

With the unrelenting extravaganza that is the modern vent agenda of superhero movies , it can be easy to forget that the last movie in Christopher Nolan ’s The Dark Knight saga was only released five years ago . According to Nolan , more than meter and quality sort his films from all the work that ’s number out since .

Speakingat a BAFTA outcome in London , Nolan comment that his superhero films were the last time such a big - budget serialise production had what he called the “ sumptuousness ” of time .

“ That ’s a privilege and a luxuriousness that filmmakers are n’t afforded anymore , ” said Nolan . “ I think it was the last sentence that anyone was able to say to a studio , ‘ I might do another one , but it will be four years . ’ There ’s too much pressure on spill schedule to let hoi polloi do that now , but creatively it ’s a immense advantage . We had the privilege and advantage to make grow as people and as storytellers and then bring the mob back together . ”

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Nolan has a point . He , notably , made a passion projection of his own between every Batman film he made . First Batman Begins , then The Prestige . Then The Dark Knight , followed by Inception , before his final turn in the Bat - shaped director ’s chair for The Dark Knight Rises . And that time aside shows , in Nolan ’s trend and filmmaking methods but also in the mood , flavor , and narrative of the three films . Each one , despite continuing the same story , feels incredibly distinct from one another , drawing on a growth in approximation and impression that likely could n’t have happened without that extra time for the series to lie down fallow .

Not that extra time is the tonality to success either , though . The Dark Knight surface was far from universally beloved , and though I ’m not sure what the fandom consensus is now , at the time it was something of a punchline . So , y’know , unlike strokes and all that .

[ Comicbook.com ]

William Duplessie