After the capitol riot, were there any discussions about removing this storyline? Well, the problem is that he was so central to the sto...
After the capitol riot, were there any discussions about removing this storyline?
Well, the problem is that he was so central to the story. We all looked at each other and said to ourselves that at the end of the day, we thought that was both quite different and that it was also, quite frankly, so essential to the story.
There were times when we were filming and the actors and I looked at each other, as we were leaving, it’s strange. I remember the day when Jayme Lawson [who plays Bella Reál, the mayor-elect] speaks, following all that has happened, and she says, we must rebuild — not only our city, but people’s faith in our institutions. It’s one of those things where I was like, whoa.
I was really interested to see if that was something that would come up to an audience when we did our test screenings with all these Batman fans, and it’s not really, and that also made me reassured.
Batman’s line, “I am revenge”, was played in the promotion for this movie, almost like a catchphrase, but then he hears those words repeated to him by one of the Riddler’s supporters. Is his lesson that he has to transcend that – that for the people of Gotham he has to be a true hero?
When I was watching the comics and “Batman: The Animated Series”, Speech by Kevin Conroy on “I Am Vengeance. I am the night,” something about that really touched me. He does this to come back to what happened to him, so he backs out. It is a form of revenge, but this revenge is not enough. It has to become more, and that’s the message of the whole film. I want him to go from someone who plans revenge to someone who lets people know that somewhere in all this darkness there is hope. It was his bow.
You seem to have clearly paved the way for a possible sequel. Are you already thinking about the continuation of the story?
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