‘We absolutely had to change direction’: The Dark Knight Rises screenwriter didn’t want Bane in the film.

Released in 2012, the third and final installment of the Caped Crusader trilogy, led by Batman Begins, The Dark Knight Rises, was a triumph at the international box office, grossing $1.085 billion. Slightly more than the 1.008 billion collected by the previous installment, The Dark Knight.

On a promotional tour for his new series Fallout, which just started on Prime Video, Jonathan Nolan, who co-wrote the film with his brother Christopher and David S. With Goyer, he took the opportunity to relinquish some confidence. to his brother’s orchestrated trilogy.

“He was very close to Heath.”

on the podcast microphone happy sad confused Broadcast a few days ago, it explains that the main antagonist could not be Bane, played by the massive Tom Hardy, but the Riddler.

“We talked about it. The Bane idea came up during a discussion with David Goyer. I wasn’t entirely sure, but I didn’t want to impose anything. Chris understood that we had to move away from what we did with Heath. Ledger.

I started testing what we could imagine with the Riddler character, but it was too close to Hit. We absolutely had to change direction.”

He adds: “One of the things that excited me about The Dark Knight Rises was that we did a kind of urban thriller, and the third one was a post-apocalyptic movie. Batman always saves the day and the city is saved. Why can’t we just destroy Gotham and see , what happens next?”

“Leonardo DiCaprio should play the Riddler!”

In September 2023, David S. Goyer mentioned exactly the idea of ​​making the Riddler the villain of the film. A request that was actually initiated by the boss of Warner Bros…

I remember at the premiere of The Dark Knight, the head of Warner Bros. said: You should make a movie with The Riddler. It is necessary that Leonardo DiCaprio playing the Riddler,” told him David S. Goyer. “But that wasn’t the way we worked.”

David S. A famous “way of working” for the studios mentioned by Goyer was to choose a villain and then articulate the film’s plot around him. In complete contrast to the method used by the Nolan brothers and David S. Goyer, who wanted to focus on Batman’s journey first and then assign an adversary that would fit perfectly into the story.