How else was he going to communicate with Tom Hardy? Holy Bat-Signals, Batman!
In July 1993, Batman’s story was going to change forever. It was in number 497 of his regular series, where, after a small fight, the new supervillain Bane broke the superhero’s back with a loud “KRAKT”. He would recover a year later, but the ramifications can still be felt to this day in DC. How was Christopher Nolan going to resist the urge to include the deadly assassin as the main antagonist of his last flight with the Night Lord?
Cristofer and Bane
After Batman Begins and The dark knight, there was only one way for Nolan to get to work with the end of his trilogy: to give him absolutely everything he asked for, with guaranteed success. Catwoman? Bane? A cameo of Liam Neeson like Ra’s al Ghul? Of course. The result was an epic film of more than two and a half hours in which filming not everything turned out as perfect as it seems in the final result.
Specifically, in the big fight on the street surrounded by people, Christian Bale and Tom Hardy did not understand when they had to respond to each other from a distance, to the director’s despair. They were a long way away and nothing could be understood among the noise, so Bale began to raise a finger. when he had just spoken. Hardy adopted him and did the same, although in a hidden way. In the battle, as we see it on screen, we don’t get to see any of this trick… and, frankly, it’s a real shame.
The truth is The two possible initial scripts for this third part had Joker as the protagonist, in one case turning Harvey Dent into Two-Face and in the other a gigantic chase through the streets of Gotham. But it became impossible after the death of Heath Ledger, and in the end we had to settle for Bane. I wish all the disappointments in life were like this.
