The NY Times has a feature article on director Christopher Nolan and his upcoming Batman Begins sequel The Dark Knight.
The feature — titled “Batman’s Burden: A Director Confronts Darkness and Death” — has several new images from the upcoming film, along with photos of Nolan, which can be seen in the article’s accompanying slideshow. One of the new images is here at right; the other two are here below (click all of them for a larger view).
The article takes a look at how Nolan’s hands-on approach to filmmaking — regardless of how big the budget is — has hardly changed since making 2000′s Memento. Though, for The Dark Knight, the bigger budget meant that Nolan could film 30 minutes of the movie — including the opening sequence — with IMAX cameras.
Of Nolan’s $180 million comic-book movie sequel, the article questions:
Now the question is whether Mr. Nolan’s vision of Batman can not only maintain its hold on the imaginations of comic fans and critics, but expand its reach to a wider summer moviegoing audience, even as the death of Heath Ledger, who played the Joker in “The Dark Knight,” has added unanticipated morbidity to the film’s deliberate darkness.
We’ll have to wait and see when The Dark Knight opens in theaters on July 18, 2008.
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