After the $1bn+ grossing The Dark Knight, Warner Bros needed Christopher Nolan more than Christopher Nolan really needed Warner Bros. And whilst Warners wanted a Batman 3 off Nolan, the writer/director himself was concerned: how many good third films in franchises could he really remember?
Still, even as he headed off to make Inception, Nolan and his brother, Jonathan, had an idea which way they wanted a third Dark Knight adventure to go: and this time, it'd be a swing away from what was expected, and what Warner Bros perhaps wanted. Over time, Nolan would reflect that The Dark Knight Rises would be his most underrated film - and Simon gets into the story of it here...
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