1. Christopher Nolan Organised Movie Screenings Before Production
Directors often have unusual methods when it comes to preparing their actors for certain roles, but Christopher Nolan's sounds a lot less harsh than most. Ahead of shooting, the filmmaker screened movies for the cast and crew to give them an idea of the direction he would be taking. So, for Batman Begins, they watched Ridley Scott's Blade Runner. The Dark Knight was a much more ambitious film, so the first four days of shooting saw Nolan show even more of his favourite movies. He started with Heat and Cat People on the first day, Citizen Kane and King Kong on the second, Batman Begins and Black Sunday on the third, and then A Clockwork Orange and Stalag 17 on the fourth and final day. For The Dark Knight Rises, he had literary inspiration in the form of Charles Dickens' A Tale Of Two Cites. However, Nolan would later reveal that his main film influences were Fritz Lang's Metropolis, The Battle of Algiers, Sidney Lumet's Prince of the City, David Lean's Doctor Zhivago, and (for a second time during this trilogy's creation) Blade Runner. Are there any more cool facts about The Dark Knight Trilogy? Share any you know down in the comments.
