chris nolan on batman

in a way, i "pity" Bruce Wayne ... becoz he ain't getting much press lately, with the media hyped up over Ledger's Joker and now the spotlight's on Eckhart's Harvey-"Two-Face"-Dent, Bale's Batman has but merged into the shadows of Gotham's crime-infested alleys (which is actually befitting of his urban-lore, innit?) ... altho ironically, that may not be what director Chris Nolan had planned for the Dark Knight:

"All the talk of darkness obscures what may come as an aesthetic surprise in “The Dark Knight”: the creepy shadows and gothic Wayne Manor are gone, replaced by sleek towers, shiny surfaces, bright lighting and the vistas of a city with shoulders bigger than Batman’s. “I’ve tried to unclutter the Gotham we created on the last film,” said Nathan Crowley, Mr. Nolan’s production designer. “Gotham is in chaos. We keep blowing up stuff. So we can keep our images clean,” setting a solitary hero against the vastness of Chicago.

Mr. Nolan said he tried to make “Batman Begins” realistic by taking Wayne out of Gotham for portions of the story. For “The Dark Knight” he wanted Gotham to seem straight out of the news. “We just let everyone know up front: this is a location movie,” he said."
[read more via NYTimes.com / images via] MORE PICS HERE


Nolan wonders where the Bat-Pod is tonight...