Actor Tom Wilkinson, known for roles in The Full Monty and Batman Begins, has been reported dead at the age of 75.
Batman Begins writer David Goyer has praised the team behind Matt Reeves' The Batman for crafting a noir-driven story that highlights Bruce Wayne's detective skills.
In the latest entry of our series on the films of Christopher Nolan, we look at Batman Begins and how a fear of the past created a superhero.
Spoilers ahead for Batman Begins. Christopher Nolan didn’t invent the origin story for superheroes, but he made sure that for the foreseeable future, origin stories would become the primary mode of rebooting franchises for over a decade. Until this point, characters were pretty much fleshed out in their debut adventure. There might be an explanatory first act followed by a montage like in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man, but Nolan defined what studios would demand. “A gritty reboot in the vein of Batman Begins” may as well have been a macro in the Hollywood trades. As we’ve seen …
It's been more than a decade since Batman Begins, the first installment in Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight Trilogy, hit theaters. And yet, even after all this time, new information about the movie is still finding its way out of the Batcave and into the light of day. For example, screenwriter David S. Goyer has officially debunked a theory about a key Batman Begins character: Ra's al Ghul (played by Liam Neeson). The attention-grabbing soundbite was buried amidst the jam-packed and thoroughly entertaining chat Goyer had with Backstory Magazine as part of the latter's Comic-…
On June 26, Fortnite will show one of three Christopher Nolan films - Inception, Batman Begins, or The Prestige, for its first test of Movie Nite at Part Royale's Big Screen.
Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy has become such a towering monolith in pop culture that it's easy to forget that, when the film hit theaters 15 years ago today, Batman Begins was simply the first Batman film since Joel Schumacher dead-ass stuck nipples on the Bat-suit. It wasn't so much a movie as it was a seismic shift in the way we talked about the Caped Crusader. This very clearly mentally ill billionaire who dresses up like a flying rat to do knee strikes on criminals until they are in comas? He was now Serious …
This past weekend, I re-watched Batman Begins. There's a lot to like about Christopher Nolan's 2005 reboot. It can't be understated how Nolan's take, loosely based on Frank Miller's graphic novel Batman: Year One, influenced the action genre and origin stories by playing up the gritty and realistic aspects of mythic characters. Sending Bruce Wayne into the wilderness and paying attention to details like "How does he make his cowl?" really got into Batman on a granular level whereas previous Batman movies were like, "He gets drive-thru" and "He has his own credit …
This week on The Collider.com Podcast, we're talking about Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, which are both available on Netflix until the end of March. For Batman Begins, we discuss why the film was so groundbreaking, how it relates to Christopher Nolan's career, how it changed superhero movies, and more. We then move to a discussion of The Dark Knight, why the film is so damn entertaining even though it's so bleak, how Batman becomes a supporting character in his own movie, why The Dark Knight Rises had trouble as a follow-up, and more. …
Batman Begins' ending teased the Joker's arrival, allowing The Dark Knight to introduce the iconic villain. But was it all planned from the beginning?
There are three certainties in life: Death, taxes, and feature film adaptations of Batman. While the first two things are generally considered "not so great," the third thing tends to inspire a little more imagination/excitement: especially when it comes to the upcoming The Batman, Matt Reeves' brand new take on the dark knight starring Robert Pattinson in the title role. While some of his castmates have been announced (like Zoë Kravitz as Catwoman) and some actors have shared very cryptic first reactions, many details are still being kept under a tight, black hood. Now, though, we know one thing …
Batman Begins defied almost all superhero movie tropes of its time. Here are 10 storylines in the movie that were ahead of their time
With the Batman movies still going on, it's hard to forget Batman Begins. In some ways, it's aged poorly; in others, it's still timeless.
The legendary actor who had roles in Blade Runner, Batman Begins and Ladyhawke has died.