After the initial success of Matt Reeves' “Batman”, a doubt returns to the surface: why Christopher Nolan didn't make a fourth film in the “Dark Knight” trilogy?
The answer has a lot to do with Nolan's plans. The director created one of the most famous trilogies in cinema and marked the high point (at least so far) of Batman in theaters and stopping at the third film was more of an option than anything else.
Nolan's trilogy was based on “Batman Begins”, the hero's origin film that premiered in 2005; “Batman: The Dark Knight,” the most acclaimed of the three films that included Heath Ledger's Joker and Harvey Dent on his journey to become Two-Face; and “Batman: The Dark Knight Rises”, which closed the trilogy with another public and critical success.
o everything that ends on a high, the question always remains: why stop? Why not add another chapter to the story and prolong the success?
In a 2019 interview with the Toronto Sun, Christian Bale provided an answer to these questions, explaining that Nolan's mindset was always "one movie at a time".
“I think the reason it worked was Chris' take on it in the first place,” Bale said. “But we were also never arrogant to assume that we had an opportunity beyond one film at a time. That's something Chris [Nolan] would always talk about. He would say, 'This is it. We are making a movie. This is all we have.'
“Chris [Nolan] always said to me that if we were lucky enough to be able to do three we would stop. 'Let's go after this,' he'd say,” explained Christian Bale. However, all the success of the trilogy, Bale and Nolan were asked about the possibility of continuing the story.
“When they inevitably came up to us and said, 'How about a number 4?' I said no. We have to stick with Chris's dream, which has always been, hopefully, to do a trilogy. Let's not stretch ourselves too far and become overly indulgent and go into a bedroom,'” Bale said.
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the amount of productions that take too long to stop and end up coming close to spoiling a historical legacy, perhaps stopping at the third film was a good decision by Christopher Nolan.
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