Last night there was a minor furor when an LA Times profile of new Warner Bros. motion picture group president Jeff Robinov mentioned plans to release a Justice League film in 2013. There was little more than the title and the year — no other details. Now we’ve got just a bit more information, not least being a confirmation that, yes, a Justice League script is in development. And, in what might be bigger if not surprising news, there is confirmation that The Dark Knight Rises is an endpoint to Batman’s story as it currently exists on film, and WB will reboot the character afterward. Read More »
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With the imminent DVD release of Inception and the looming possibility of serious award season recognition for the film, Christopher Nolan is doing the press rounds one more time before diving into The Dark Knight Rises. And while he’s not talking very much about the third Batman film, he does sound quite ready to make it. And, as star Christian Bale is doing, he’s approaching it as the final chapter of a closed trilogy. His statement to that effect, along with a couple other tidbits, is after the break. Read More »
I’ve said it before, and ’ll say it again – You haven’t seen The Dark Knight, unless you’ve seen it in IMAX. OVer 20 minutes of the film was shot with 70mm IMAX cameras, and the result is a cinematic experience like you’ve never seen before. But how did this all come together?
“It was always Chris [Nolan]‘s idea, he’s wanted to shoot on IMAX for years,” producer Emma Thomas told us at The Dark Knight junket. “I mean a long long time, has been talking about doing this and then this, when we were talking about where to go with the sequel to Batman Begins and he really wanted to expand the world and make the film feel really huge and it just seemed like the right, finally we had the right project.”
Part of the preparation included a couple test shots on The Prestige, explained Emma Thomas: “We actually, on The Prestige shot, did a couple of shots with the IMAX camera just so that we could get a sense of what the issues were going to be
Nolan originally planned to shoot five of the scenes in IMAX but he kept increasing the use of the cameras through out the production.
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