Director Christopher Nolan’s Batman series ‘Batman Begins’ (2005), ‘The Dark Knight’ (2008) and ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ (2012) are still the most loved Batman films, even after several other films were released later. Hence according to few US reports, we learnt that Nolan and Christian Bale were given the chance to return for Batman again and guess what? They both refused.
In an interview with Toronto Sun in 2019, Bale had told that the duo had always tried to create one best film at a time together. And when Nolan didn’t want to do it any further, Bale also declined to continue the film series.
Bale said, “We knew we had to reinvent it. I literally had people laugh at me when I told them we were doing a new kind of Batman. I think that the reason it worked was first and foremost Christopher’s take on it. But also, we never were arrogant to assume that we had an opportunity beyond one film at a time.”
Although ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ had teased fans with a continuation of a fourth film, Christopher had bluntly rejected doing it any further. Back then he told in a media interview, “We never had a specific trajectory. I wanted to put everything into making one great film, I didn’t want to hold anything back.”
After Christopher Nolan and Christian Bale’s rejection, the producers continued the Batman film series by casting Ben Affleck in ‘Batman Vs Superman: Dawn Of Justice’ (2016). Nolan, meanwhile, left superhero genre and started working on sci-fi films like ‘Inception’ (2010), ‘Interstellar’ (2014) and many more.
