Christian Bale is one of the most talented actors to ever live, he is widely known for her immense versatility and abrupt physical transformation for the respective movie role. He has led movie roles in multiple genres and was also ranked as the highest-paid actor in Hollywood due to his evergrowing fame and recognition within the industry. Bale entered the entertainment industry quite early and has slowly made his way through it, currently ranked as one of the best.
Christian Bale comes from a family affiliated with the industry and became an actor even before he reached his teens, performing small roles here and there. He got his breakthrough with Empire of the Sun and was praised for his performance in the movie. Bale is widely known and respected for The Dark Knight trilogy, starring as Bruce Wayne aka Batman which received widespread fame and acknowledgment.
Christian Bale On The Dark Knight Trilogy Kickstarting MCU
Every time Christian Bale appears in front of the TV screen, a masterclass gets produced and he has been receiving the love and support of the people from the very start of his career. The actor has been in the industry for over three decades and still has the capacity and quality to turn scripts into blockbusters, whether he needs to change his take on the script or his physical appearance, it will be done. Furthermore, Bale has grasped the fans’ undivided attention by starring as the dark knight in The Dark Knight Trilogy directed by the one of most accomplished Hollywood directors to date, Christopher Nolan.
“I would tell people we’re going to sort of do Batman but take him seriously. I had tons of people laugh at me and just say, ‘Well, that’s just not going to work at all.’
It’s wonderful to be a part of a trilogy that proved those people wrong. I’m not certain if it kickstarted the Marvel Cinematic Universe but it certainly helped along the way.”
During an interview with The Washington Post, Christian Bale revealed that when the team was forming a plan for The Dark Knight Trilogy, many would laugh about it and deem it a failure. But the fact that the franchise turned out to be the best Batman movies to be ever made was a direct slap to their face.
Moreover, he shared that although he is quite not sure, this project might have kickstarted the MCU, and even if it did not kickstart the franchise, it had a role to play in the amount of success the franchise has nowadays. It is not only for MCU, but The Dark Knight Trilogy has also changed the entire comic universe in many ways.
The Dark Knight Trilogy Was a Menace to the Industry
The Dark Knight Trilogy took the world by storm and gained immense success at the box office and was also highly praised for its script and choreography. The director, Christopher Nolan is a world-class director and a leading filmmaker with countless blockbusters under his belt, he is also widely known for his complex and unconventional scripts. With actors like Christian Bale, Cillian Murphy, Morgan Freeman, Tom Hardy, Anne Hathaway, Michael Cane, Gary Oldman, and Heath Ledger the franchise was already set to be a mega-blockbuster.
The trilogy, consisting of Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, and The Dark Knight Rises accumulated over a staggering $2.46 billion at the box office after its release worldwide with an overall budget of around $585 million. The ratings for the movies were also very high and it took home numerous awards, some of them being the Academy Awards, the BAFTA Awards, the Critics Choice Awards, the Golden Globes, the MTV Movie + TV Awards, and many others with countless other nominations.
Source: The Washington Post
