Christian Bale Is Willing to Return as Batman Under 1 Condition: ‘I Had a Pact’
usmagazine.comThe Dark Knight rises … again? Christian Bale said he’d be willing to slip into his Batman cowl again, but it would have to be under very specific circumstances.“No one’s ever mentioned it to me.
No one’s brought it up,” Bale, 48, told ScreenRant of returning as the caped crusader in an interview published on Monday, June 27. “Occasionally people say to me, ‘Oh, I hear you were approached and offered all this.’ And I’m like, ‘That’s news to me.
No one’s ever said that.'”The actor — who starred as billionaire vigilante Bruce Wayne in 2005’s Batman Begins, 2008’s The Dark Knight and 2012’s The Dark Knight Rises — said he’d only return if he could reunite with director Christopher Nolan.“I had a pact with Chris Nolan,” Bale revealed. “We said, ‘Hey, look.
Let’s make three films, if we’re lucky enough to get to do that. And then let’s walk away. Let’s not linger too long.’ In my mind, it would be something if Chris Nolan ever said to himself, ‘You know what, I’ve got another story to tell.’ And if he wished to tell that story with me, I’d be in.”Since Bale’s departure, there have been several different actors in the role. Ben Affleck played an older version of the character in 2016’s Batman v.
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