Director Chris Nolan, Producer Charles Roven Reveal New ‘The Dark Knight’ Nuggets

Several people have alerted me to various reports stemming from the non-English site Kino.de, which has recently published new information following an interview with “The Dark Knight” director Chris Nolan and producer Charles Roven.


The interview has been translated and published here in nugget form:

As we already know, Batman (Christian Bale) travels to Hong Kong. Producer Chuck Roven confirmed [the] Asian trip but would not reveal why Batman goes there. “Gangster hunting” was mentioned.

The new Batman suit will be equipped with “lenses” (some sort of bat sonar equipment).

The prologue that will be shown in IMAX in December is the first five minutes of the film.

Here’s a translated quote from Chris Nolan: “[The Dark Knight] is not ‘The Joker Begins’. We did not want to tell how the Joker became what he is.

“In those five minutes [of the prologue], we show how the Joker goes from being a small-time crook to Gotham’s greatest villain. It’s like ‘The Rise of the Joker’.”