Why was Christopher Nolan ‘hesitant’ about directing the Batman trilogy?

When he received the proposal to direct a trilogy of films by Batman, Christopher Nolan did not foresee the success, among the public and critics, that it would be and even hesitated in accepting the project starring Christian Bale.

During an interview with Armchair Expert Podcast with Dax Shepard, Jonathan Nolanbrother of the iconic director, recalled the filmmaker’s behavior before the project took shape.

“I worked on Batman Begins (2005) a little distantly, but it was the only comic book my brother gave me as a child, Batman – Year Oneon my 14th birthday, and 10 years later I was on set working with him,” he said.

“Chris was on the fence about doing another one. I don’t think he wanted to become a superhero movie director,” he continued. “We spent an hour telling the origin story, and that’s great, but it’s like, ‘What [mais] can we do with this?’ Can we take the same characters and slightly shift to a different genre? Can we go from an adventure movie to a crime movie to a mob movie and bring that feeling to it?”

So I was literally sitting with [o produtor] Charles Roven It is Chris and thinking, ‘Man, don’t be a coward. Let’s do this!’…and eventually he changed his mind. He managed to avoid being pigeonholed.