Unsurprisingly, due to the box office success of The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises, both of which grossed slightly over $US 1 billion, Warner Bros was interested in making a 4th Batman film with Christian Bale. However, he declined. In a new interview with Toronto Sun, the celebrated actor talked about Nolan’s trilogy and what pushed him to refuse the offer.
He’d say, ‘This is it. We’re making one film. That’s all we’ve got.’ Then when they came and said, ‘You want to go make another?’ It was fantastic, but we still said, ‘This is it. We will not get another opportunity.’ Then they came and they said, ‘OK, let’s do a third one.’ Chris had always said to me that if we were fortunate to be able to make three we would stop. ‘Let’s walk away after that.’ Nolan has said in many interviews that when he initially started writing Batman Begins with David Goyer in 2003, he always envisioned doing three films. Bale then continued: Robert Pattinson is set to play the next Batman with Matt Reeves (War For the Planet of the Apes) at the helm. The film is set to hit cinemas in 2021.
