David S. Goyer Says Warner Bros. Execs Were Upset It Takes an Hour to See Christian Bale in the Batsuit in ‘Batman Begins’

David S. Goyer Says Warner Bros. Execs Were Upset It Takes an Hour to See Christian Bale in the Batsuit in ‘Batman Begins’

It’s the 20th anniversary of “Batman Begins,” so of course the tributes and retrospective interviews are flowing like the Caped Crusader’s… er… cape. The film’s co-writer David S. Goyer just took to the Happy Sad Confused podcast to share that the Christopher Nolan blockbuster, widely considered a top-tier classic of superhero cinema, did not necessarily have its greatness recognized by the Warner Bros. execs in the leadup to its 2005 release. T…

Goyer Talks Withholding Batman In "Begins"

This month marks the 20th anniversary of Christopher Nolan’s “Batman Begins,” the film that effectively set the modern template for rebooting a franchise, especially a franchise seen as having fallen into a parody of itself. The film was co-written by Nolan and David S. Goyer, the “Blade” and “Dark City” writer and filmmaker who is still very much around in the industry who has multiple TV series going on right now – he’s an executive producer o…

Why Batman Shows Up So Late In Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins

Batman Begins co-writer David S. Goyer and Christopher Nolan made a deliberate choice to avoid having Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) suit up as Batman too early.