", "Great America Getting New 'Dark Knight' Coaster Next Year", "Mattel on Board for Speed Racer & The Dark Knight", "The Dark Knight Torrent Used To Mess With Hollywood", "Batman almost got an open-world game 3 years before Arkham City", "The 50 Best Movies of the Decade (2000–2009)", "Film Critics Pick the Best Movies of the Decade", "The best films of 2008... and there were a lot of them", "The Dark Knight-Showdown in Gotham Town", "100 greatest movies, TV shows, and more", "Mark Kermode reviews 'The Dark Knight' – BBC 5 Live", "Christian Bale's Batman: Was The Voice Ridiculous? Shôjirô Nishimi, And it's been a fantastic ride since then. [88] While filming in Chicago, the film was given the false title Rory's First Kiss to lower the visibility of production, but the local media eventually uncovered the ruse. Sean Young, It was additionally nominated for six others, these being Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, Best Sound Mixing, Best Visual Effects, Best Makeup, and Best Film Editing. The engines are located in the hubs of the wheels, which are set 3½ feet (1,067 mm) apart on either side of the tank. [112], Nolan designed Dent's scarred appearance in the film as one of the least disturbing, explaining, "When we looked at less extreme versions of it, they were too real and more horrifying. | Jon Voight, Votes: Would it be a sequel, Batman 5? 64 min | Gross: The Dark Knight won two awards: Best Supporting Actor for Heath Ledger and Best Sound Editing. The Dark Knight is a 2008 superhero film directed, produced, and co-written by Christopher Nolan.Based on the DC Comics character Batman, the film is the second installment of Nolan's The Dark Knight Trilogy and a sequel to 2005's Batman Begins, starring Christian Bale and supported by Michael Caine, Heath Ledger, Gary Oldman, Aaron Eckhart, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Morgan Freeman. ", "Dark Knight Director Shuns Digital Effects for the Real Thing", "Exclusive Interview: Gary Oldman for "The Dark Knight, "In 'Dark Knight,' The Often-Incompetent Jim Gordon Actually Knows What He's Doing", "Gary Oldman Discusses His Role as Jim Gordon in 'The Dark Knight, "Aaron Eckhart: Not Just Another Pretty Face in 'The Dark Knight, "(Dark Knight Exclusive): Aaron Eckhart Q&A", "Video Interview: Schreiber & Stiles on The Omen! And that's what a true hero movie is made of, that is the feeling it has to evoke! | Michael Caine, [172] The Dark Knight was listed at 80th place on this list. From the beginning of the trilogy until it's very end, we witness the journey of a true man, who wants to make the difference, who wants to prove to everybody that everyone can be a hero. | In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences. "[73], While scouting for shooting locations in October 2006, location manager Robin Higgs visited Liverpool, concentrating mainly along the city's waterfront. He doesn't think about franchises, he's a more Leoneish kind of director. Both the civilians and the prisoners refuse to kill each other, while Batman apprehends the Joker after a brief fight. [131] In March 2008, Harvey Dent's fictional campaign informed fans that actual campaign buses nicknamed "Dentmobiles" would tour various cities to promote Dent's candidacy for district attorney. La película de Batman de Christopher Nolan “The Dark Knight”, de 2008, fue un éxito en taquilla y recibió la mayor cantidad de votos populares. | Gross: With his acclaimed take on Batman in The Dark Knight Trilogy, Christopher Nolan helped take superhero films to new heights both critically and commercially, paving the … [188], The Dark Knight is described as a neo-noir film by some authors.[189]. The Feds want the Man of Tomorrow to put a stop to him. Elizabeth Allan, "[146] CinemaScore polls reported that the average grade cinemagoers gave the film was "A" on an A+ to F scale; audiences skewed slightly male and older. The franchise started being considered by many like... dead. Lauren Sanchez, [32] The restaurant scene was filmed at the Criterion Restaurant in Piccadilly Circus, London. | According to the spoken legend, the name really refers to the first kiss of Nolan's son. Catwoman's suit, for example is a reference to Julie Newmar from the 1960's Catwoman in the comical Adam West series, and you can see the resemblance.And there's even books as inspirations, yes, classic stories, Nolan also spoke that most of the plot of the movie was inspired by the Charles Dickens novel A Tale of Two Cities, beautifully depicted in a 1935 movie, and when you get the book to read, you notice it right off the bat. [69] Nolan also cited Heat as "sort of an inspiration" for his aim "to tell a very large, city story or the story of a city": "If you want to take on Gotham, you want to give Gotham a kind of weight and breadth and depth in there. Tom Hardy as Bane is terrifying! The film also set numerous records during its theatrical run. Whatever, the fact is that Nolan earned the respect of producers, executives and other hierarchies from the WB studios and authonomy, all of this things, enough to move on with the Batman franchise and to do his own movies the way he intended to do.After the frustrated attempt of trying to bring his vision about Howard Hughes, Nolan was also planning to adapt a book called The Prestige, written by Christopher Priest, but this attempt was also halted by the production of Batman Begins. Eliza Dushku, Last night Warner Bros. announced a limited edition The Dark Knight Rises Blu-ray combo pack which features a … Director: tagline with the launch of a website featuring the fictional political campaign of Harvey Dent, with the caption, "I Believe in Harvey Dent". Ledger died on January 22, 2008, some months after he completed filming and six months before the film's release from a toxic combination of prescription drugs, leading to intense attention from the press and movie-going public. Former Batman actor Michael Keaton wouldn't confirm his return as the Dark Knight in the upcoming Flash movie, but he hasn't denied the possibility. [152] Manohla Dargis of The New York Times wrote, "Pitched at the divide between art and industry, poetry and entertainment, it goes darker and deeper than any Hollywood movie of its comic-book kind. [138] Leading up to The Dark Knight's commercial release, the film had drawn "overwhelmingly positive early reviews and buzz on Heath Ledger's turn as the Joker". "[24], According to Nolan, an important theme of the sequel is "escalation", extending the ending of Batman Begins, noting "things having to get worse before they get better". Heath Ledger was the first posthumous winner of the Best Supporting Actor award, and only the second posthumous acting winner ever (Peter Finch posthumously won the Best Actor award for his performance in the 1976 film Network). Hedy Lamarr, After the movie, Christopher Nolan left his days of an independent low budget filmmaker that used to make excellent movies to go one step further to become a generous budget excellent movie maker. That made Nolan reconsider making a movie about an eccentric rich man and to consider about making a movie about... another excentric rich man. Wade Williams. The Joker interrupts, warns them that Batman is unhindered by the law, and offers to kill him in exchange for half of their money. But they still manages to give us their own and original point of view about the source material.The characters are great, the story is very well tied in and the decision to never treat these films like a "franchise" that gives always clues to a next chapter makes the whole difference.Instead of thinking about these films in a movie structure, I like to think about them as an opera being enacted to us. "[68] Nolan reiterated to IGN, "We never wanted to do an origin story for the Joker in this film", because "the arc of the story is much more Harvey Dent's; the Joker is presented as an absolute. [106] Ledger described his "clown" mask, made up of three pieces of stamped silicone, as a "new technology", taking less than an hour for the make-up artists to apply, much faster than more-conventional prosthetics usually requires. [109] Though the new costume is eight pounds heavier, Bale found it more comfortable and not as hot to wear. In this movie, the society is divided into rich man and workers, poor people, who decides to start a revolution against the rich people who doesn't give a crap for them. It is written by Danny Brocklehurst and stars MyAnna Buring as detective Helen Weeks. It brought tears to my eyes and ended everything epically! The Batman has returned after a 10-year absence. [24] Christopher had Jonathan watch Fritz Lang's 1933 crime film The Testament of Dr. Mabuse prior to writing the Joker,[63][64] with the Joker resembling Mabuse's characteristics. When Christopher Nolan and David Goyer was in the process of writing a script for a possible new Batman movie, WB already discarded the idea of several scripts so, Christopher Nolan, after voraciously research Batman, general ideas and read comics like crazy, finished his first sketch of a script called "The Intimidation Game" and stepped into WB to talk about his vision of Batman. [227] In contrast to Avatar and Titanic—both which grossed more than The Dark Knight in North America and had slow but steady earnings—The Dark Knight broke records in its opening weekend and slowed down significantly after its first few weekends. In the film, Bruce Wayne / Batman (Bale), Police Lieutenant James Gordon (Oldman) and District Attorney Harvey Dent (Eckhart) form an alliance to dismantle organized crime in Gotham City, but are menaced by an anarchistic mastermind known as the Joker (Ledger), who seeks to undermine Batman's influence and throw the city into anarchy. By the end, the whole moral foundation of the Batman legend is threatened. It made $199.7 million on its worldwide opening weekend, which ranks 34th on the all-time chart. [222] Finally, it achieved the largest second-weekend gross (a record first surpassed by Avatar). [127], After the death of Heath Ledger on January 22, 2008, Warner Bros. adjusted its promotional focus on the Joker,[128] revising some of its websites dedicated to promoting the film and posting a memorial tribute to Ledger on the film's official website[129] and overlaying a black memorial ribbon on the photo collage in WhySoSerious.com. [130] On February 29, 2008, I Believe in Harvey Dent was updated to enable fans to send their e-mail addresses and phone numbers. "[186], According to David S. Goyer, the primary theme of The Dark Knight is escalation. What I want to accomplish here is not to only state the obvious: that Christopher Nolan saved Batman on the big screen, yes, everybody knows that and it's been said that to death. $6.21M. Several sequences, including one car chase, were shot on the lower level of Wacker Drive. Christian Bale, Anne Hathaway as Selina Kyle is sexy, exciting, thrilling and very strong. [205], The Dark Knight opened on Friday, July 18, 2008. [156] Levy and Peter Travers conclude that the film is "haunting and visionary,"[152][156] while Levy goes on to say that The Dark Knight is "nothing short of brilliant. The Dark Knight: Batman DX-“Sometimes the truth isn't good enough, sometimes people deserve more. Stars: [126] Also on July 8, 2008, the studio released Batman: Gotham Knight, a direct-to-DVD animated film, set between Batman Begins and The Dark Knight and featuring six original stories, directed by Bruce Timm, co-creator and producer of Batman: The Animated Series, and starring veteran Batman voice actor Kevin Conroy. 158,831 Everyone wanted to see what Nolan would do to live up to the expectations earned by the last movies and to give the fitting ending to the whole story told in those three films.And as the Joker would say: he didn't disappoint! 117 min [58] His original intent was for the Joker to scar Dent during the Joker's trial in the third film, turning Dent into the supervillain Two-Face. [132], On May 15, 2008, Six Flags Great America and Six Flags Great Adventure theme parks opened The Dark Knight Coaster roller coaster, which cost US$7.5 million to develop and which simulates being stalked by the Joker. He took a small scale villain like Bane, which was created in a rush, with the only purpose to break Batman in half, to cause commotion and then disappear in thin air on the next sagas and stories, and turned him into someone really frightening and scary, a memorable adversary.There's lots of other sources as well. Although it did not receive a Best Picture nomination, the show's opening song paid homage to The Dark Knight along with the five Best Picture nominees, including host Hugh Jackman riding on a mockup of the Batpod made out of garbage. [8] At the 81st Academy Awards, the film received eight nominations; it won the award for Best Sound Editing and Ledger was posthumously awarded Best Supporting Actor. [85][86] Instead of using the Chicago Board of Trade Building as the location for the headquarters of Wayne Enterprises, as Batman Begins did,[87] The Dark Knight shows Wayne Enterprises as being headquartered in the Richard J. Daley Center. [6] The Dark Knight appeared on 287 critics' top-ten lists, more than any other film of 2008 with the exception of WALL-E, and more critics (77) named The Dark Knight the best film released that year. For each shot, three 720-pixel HD cameras were set up at different angles on set to fully capture Aaron Eckhart's performance. The Joker also tries to kill Mayor Anthony Garcia, but Gordon sacrifices himself to stop the assassination. And you can also notice again the desire of Bruce Wayne to retire and his will to return after many years like the Dark Knight, as it's depicted in the classic story The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller.I even found incredible like Christopher Nolan was entitled to read and inspire himself from various moments and stories from the Batman cannon in the comics, since more marketable, strictly "made to sell magazines" sagas like Knightfall and No Man's Land to more artistic and higher note tales like The Cult and The Dark Knight Returns.