News culture Christopher Nolan didn’t listen to the head of Warner Bros.! He definitely didn’t want this actor to succeed the Joker and complete the Dark Knight trilogy
The filming of Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight trilogy experienced tragedy with the death of Heath Ledger. The filmmaker therefore had to find a plan B…
The character of Batman has always fascinated cinema. Even with about ten films under his belt, fans are still there to find Bruce Wayne. The proof is that they are eagerly awaiting the sequel to Matt Reeves’ The Batman (Cloverfield), which was originally scheduled for 2025 but will ultimately change postponed to October 2026.
His interpreter Barry Keoghan (Saltburn) cannot say anything more for the time being. “I can’t say much, but it would be exciting, wouldn’t it?” To see the Joker return again. My smile says it all, you know what that means…” he explained enigmatically to Etalk. At the same time, the Joker is one of the Dark Knight’s most symbolic enemies, almost more popular than the superhero. In “The Dark Knight” by Christopher Nolan, Heath Ledger managed to make him an icon. Unfortunately, the filmmaker had to find a plan B after his death.
A plan B to avoid
It’s just a few weeks after the release of The Dark Knight: The Black Knight, in 2008 Heath Ledger died out, which shook up the entire film industry. Apparently Christopher Nolan, who directed the film, was shocked but had to quickly return to his role as filmmaker to complete his trilogy. He still had to do “Rise” back then, but without Joker he had to rethink all his plans. We now know that the scenario has changed enormously. The antagonist had to come back to stand trial, even Ledger was excited. Today, if it is the villain Bane (Tom Hardy) who is headlining this third film, it has long been assumed that it will be the mystery man who will appear. For Warner Bros. it was obvious and its actor could only have been Leonardo Di Caprio (Titanic).
However, Nolan stood his ground and did not give in to these demands, stating that he already had a plan. “After The Dark Knight, the head of Warner Bros. said, ‘You have to do The Sphinx.’ You have to tell Nolan, Leo is the mystery man.” But That’s not how we work “, revealed the films’ screenwriter, David S. Goyer, in the podcast Happy, sad, confused. Apparently this idea was quickly dismantled, even if it was not completely absurd. Di Caprio has always been close to casting superhero films. He could even have been Robin in Batman Forever,But this is another story.
