Christopher Nolan Talks 'Dark Knight' Burden, IMAX

With The Dark Knight DVD just hours away, Christopher Nolan is making the rounds to discuss the film, the DVD, and what lies ahead for the Caped Crusader.Currently, Nolan is exploring where to take the Batman story next, saying he doesn't want to do it just because it would make a lot of money. But he also acknowledges to USA Today how taxing working on sequels can be when you don't just go for the cash."I don't know why they're hard to do," Nolan admits. "Maybe there's so much expectation to them. But I wouldn't want to do one if it weren't going to be as good as the first or second. That's not respectful to the fans."But something along the way made Nolan realize he might have to come back, if only to give his take on the franchise the proper closure. "It was obvious when the box office was so big ($530 million domestically) that we had underestimated how ready fans were to reboot the franchise," he says. "The worst thing you could do now that you've gotten the plane back in the air is mess up the landing."One idea being circulated is more IMAX. Nolan told Ain't It Cool News that he'd love to shoot an entire film with the IMAX cameras, but because they're noisy buggers, he'd have to re-record the dialogue in post production (ADR). To circumvent that problem, Nolan says you could film all the action scenes in IMAX (since they'd need post production audio anyway for explosions and other sounds) and then film scenes with dialogue in the also enormously expensive 65mm format, which nobody has done in years. Perhaps the last great film to do it was 2001, although I'd love to see the print of Grand Prix in the bigger format.I would think it's highly improbable that Nolan would do that for the third Batman movie; it sounds like something you'd want to experiment with on a smaller film, or at least one that doesn't have more such huge box office potential.But, at the very least, he's talking Batman again. That's a plus.

Comments

[george]

I still think the script are the most important of all.As long as you got a good story,then there's only a matter of time for Mr Nolan to present it as a masterpiece.

[DarkGrittyMovieLoverX]

This is better than nothing, at least.

[Will]

So let's do like Lost and map out the next three movies, rather than just, you know, one movie at a time...

(not that I don't think that Warner and Nolan haven't already done that...)

[Wilson Lost]

Yeah, having Batman ride off into the night is about as much closure as having Star Wars end with Luke getting his hand chopped off...