{"id":4985,"date":"2012-07-25T17:20:32","date_gmt":"2012-07-25T17:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/?p=4985"},"modified":"2012-07-25T17:20:32","modified_gmt":"2012-07-25T17:20:32","slug":"chris-nolans-final-letter-to-batman-news-dark-horizons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/chris-nolans-final-letter-to-batman-news-dark-horizons\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Nolans Final Letter To Batman | News | Dark Horizons"},"content":{"rendered":"

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With “The Dark Knight Rises” delivered and the promo tour cut short, filmmaker Chris Nolan is about to head out on a long overdue vacation. Before he goes though hes done one last piece of writing, a foreword to the upcoming “The Art of Making of The Dark Knight Trilogy” coffee book which hit stores this past Friday. The foreword serves as Nolans farewell to the franchise, and heres a copy in full:<\/p>\n

“Alfred. Gordon. Lucius. Bruce… Wayne. Names that have come to mean so much to me. Today, Im three weeks from saying a final good-bye to these characters and their world. Its my sons ninth birthday. He was born as the Tumbler was being glued together in my garage from random parts of model kits. Much time, many changes. A shift from sets where some gunplay or a helicopter were extraordinary events to working days where crowds of extras, building demolitions, or mayhem thousands of feet in the air have become familiar.<\/em><\/p>\n

People ask if wed always planned a trilogy. This is like being asked whether you had planned on growing up, getting married, having kids. The answer is complicated. When David and I first started cracking open Bruces story, we flirted with what might come after, then backed away, not wanting to look too deep into the future. I didnt want to know everything that Bruce couldnt; I wanted to live it with him. I told David and Jonah to put everything they knew into each film as we made it. The entire cast and crew put all they had into the first film. Nothing held back. Nothing saved for next time. They built an entire city. Then Christian and Michael and Gary and Morgan and Liam and Cillian started living in it. Christian bit off a big chunk of Bruce Waynes life and made it utterly compelling. He took us into a pop icons mind and never let us notice for an instant the fanciful nature of Bruces methods.<\/em><\/p>\n

I never thought wed do a second \u2014 how many good sequels are there? Why roll those dice? But once I knew where it would take Bruce, and when I started to see glimpses of the antagonist, it became essential. We re-assembled the team and went back to Gotham. It had changed in three years. Bigger. More real. More modern. And a new force of chaos was coming to the fore. The ultimate scary clown, as brought to terrifying life by Heath. Wed held nothing back, but there were things we hadnt been able to do the first time out \u2014 a Batsuit with a flexible neck, shooting on Imax. And things wed chickened out on \u2014 destroying the Batmobile, burning up the villains blood money to show a complete disregard for conventional motivation. We took the supposed security of a sequel as license to throw caution to the wind and headed for the darkest corners of Gotham.<\/em><\/p>\n

I never thought wed do a third \u2014 are there any great second sequels? But I kept wondering about the end of Bruces journey, and once David and I discovered it, I had to see it for myself. We had come back to what we had barely dared whisper about in those first days in my garage. We had been making a trilogy. I called everyone back together for another tour of Gotham. Four years later, it was still there. It even seemed a little cleaner, a little more polished. Wayne Manor had been rebuilt. Familiar faces were back \u2014 a little older, a little wiser… but not all was as it seemed.<\/em><\/p>\n

Gotham was rotting away at its foundations. A new evil bubbling up from beneath. Bruce had thought Batman was not needed anymore, but Bruce was wrong, just as I had been wrong. The Batman had to come back. I suppose he always will.<\/em><\/p>\n

Michael, Morgan, Gary, Cillian, Liam, Heath, Christian… Bale. Names that have come to mean so much to me. My time in Gotham, looking after one of the greatest and most enduring figures in pop culture, has been the most challenging and rewarding experience a filmmaker could hope for. I will miss the Batman. I like to think that hell miss me, but hes never been particularly sentimental.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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With “The Dark Knight Rises” delivered and the promo tour cut short, filmmaker Chris Nolan is about to head out on a long overdue vacation. 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