Christian Bale's Batman Audition

[Azrael]

... the special feature that irritated me was this:

Christopher Nolan & Richard Donner: A Conversation - For the first time, Directors Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight Trilogy) and Richard Donner (Superman) sit down to discuss the trials and triumphs involved in bringing the two most iconic superheroes of all time to the big screen, and how Superman influenced Nolan when developing Batman Begins.

description from the press release

...anyways, all I really care about is owning the films themselves. Most of these extras will inevitably surface on YT sometime in the near future.

[BatmanFanatic93]

Despite me not being a huge nolan batman fan like the rest i will say this...i kinda geeked out when seeing bale in the val's sonar suit however BatmAngelus i think the sonar suit was a metallic grey cause during batman forever where the lighting is just right the suit was really metallic grey they just repainted repainted both in the audition & in the batman cameo in looney tunes back in action. 

[DocLathropBrown]

Burton's always going to be downplayed like that, though. It's funny that he's been accenting the pop culture landscape for almost thirty years now and people still look at his films as "too weird" it seems. Tim's Batman flicks will always have a certain "they're weird" stigma attached. I mean, I remember in the 90s, my parents didn't like me watching his films because they were considered too subversive in the wake of Edward Scissorhands and especially Batman Returns. That soccer mom mentality that his stuff warps young minds. Funny now though how much of it has died down at the local level--if the new Frankenweenie had been released in the 90s there would have been an outcry similar to the one that followed The Nightmare Before Christmas, I think.

So that explains the 'professional' shaft his Batman films get when discussing the legacy of the character, since Nolan's approach sates the 'family-friendly-but-not-colorful-like-Schumacher' thirst consumers have. I wouldn't expect any WB press material now to give Tim any credit for the forwarding of comic book films, even though it really is him and Dick Donner, along with maybe Sam Raimi coming up the rear.

[Azrael]

^ word.

It's been a while since comic book film history was re-written to remove the "unwanted" parts, one has to face it...

[riddler]

Anyone know why Maggie Gylenhall wasn't cast in Batman Begins? We talk about how unfair the love interests were in the spidey films in the sense that we had to endure 3 films of Dunst and only got 2 of Stone; well here we had to endure a full film of Holmes but only got a half film of Gylenhall.