Christopher Nolan was initialally nervous over Catwoman inclusion in The Dark Knight Rises
While Christian Bale revealed earlier that he would be up for a fourth instalment in Christopher Nolan's Batman franchise, the iconic filmmaker has revealed that he initially felt "nervous" about including Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises.
The Inception filmmaker tells Empire that his brother Jonathan Nolan persuaded him to feature the famous Gotham City villain admitting "Catwoman is a very iconic figure in the Batman pantheon, I was nervous about how she would fit into our world. But [Jonathan] was very much convinced that there would be a great way to do it and eventually turned me around.
Once I got my head around the idea of looking at that character through the prism of our films, saying, 'Who could that person be in real life?' we figured it out. She's a bit of a con-woman, something of a grifter. A hard-edged kind of criminal."
Jonathan added "What we're endeavouring to do here is tell a complete take on the Batman mythos. And a complete take of the Batman mythos without the character for me was sacrilegious.
You've got to have her, because she has a delicious greyness to her that helps define who Batman is. She keeps wavering on this line of, 'Is she a good guy or a bad guy?' Well, she's kind of neither. And that's why, to me, that relationship and that character only enhances the universe - and the Batman character."
The Dark Knight Rises opens on July 20 and features Anne Hathaway, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Tom Hardy, Marion Cotillard, Liam Neeson, Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, Aidan Gillen, Juno Temple, Matthew Modine, Joey King, Nestor Carbonell, Brett Cullen, Burn Gorman, Michael Papajohn, Tom Conti and Chris Ellis.
THE DARK KNIGHT RISES OPENS ON JULY 20