Merrick here...


The New York Times has an interesting article about Christopher Nolan & his approach to THE DARK KNIGHT.

Details that caught my eye included:

**At one point, Warners tried to get Nolan to do TROY. Wolfgang Petersen ultimately directed the film...how cool would that movie have been in Nolan's hands? (As a side note: the recent Director's Cut of TROY is fairly interesting...longer, far more character detail, much of its score has been re-edited and re-deployed, color & textural manipulation done across the board, etc.)

**Nolan is directing all elements of DARK KNIGHT himself, no 2nd Unit to speak of.

**As already glimpsed in trailers, Gotham has been re-approached/re-designed a bit from its BATMAN BEGINS appearance:

All the talk of darkness obscures what may come as an aesthetic surprise in “The Dark Knight”: the creepy shadows and gothic Wayne Manor are gone, replaced by sleek towers, shiny surfaces, bright lighting and the vistas of a city with shoulders bigger than Batman’s. “I’ve tried to unclutter the Gotham we created on the last film,” said Nathan Crowley, Mr. Nolan’s production designer. “Gotham is in chaos. We keep blowing up stuff. So we can keep our images clean,” setting a solitary hero against the vastness of Chicago.

CLICK HERE to jump to the article in The New York Times.

It's a fast, interesting read (with a few new pictures, if I'm not mistaken). Check it out!