Gary Oldman Reveals Losing His The Dark Knight Rises Script
Also Michael Caine reveals how secretive Chris Nolan is about his Batman screenplays.
Whilst actual news on The Dark Knight Rises is a little slow right now as Christopher Nolan puts the finishing touches in post-production on his final Batman film, two somewhat related and funny stories have emerged about the actors in his films and their relationship to his screenplays. First up is a story Oscar nominated actor Gary Oldman told CNN about the incident in his hotel room when he thought he lost the The Dark Knight Rises script, one of the few issued that had the full screenplay, including the top secret ending. Presumably only Christian Bale and maybe Tom Hardy were issued the full thing from the director. Possibly Anne Hathaway too. So losing the thing, in this spoiler heavy internet climate, would have been horrific. Hear Oldman tell the whole story below; Meanwhile, another of the Batman film series' elder statesman Michael Caine has been telling press about how Chris Nolan first showed him the script for Batman Begins when he first asked him to play Alfred, and he refused to let the script out of his side. Caine told The Daily Mirror; The director Chris Nolan is the most secretive guy. The first time he came to me for Batman he came to my house in the country on a Sunday morning. I opened the door and he was standing there with a script. He said, do you want to play the Butler? He stayed while I read it and took the script away. He wouldnt trust me with it! But this one will definitely be the best ever. Of course despite Nolan's best efforts the screenplay for Batman Begins did end up on the web well before the film's release after all but since then he has kept The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises mostly a secret (the big reveals we've seen have mostly come from set spy photographs). The Dark Knight Rises is due July 20th, 2012.