The year was 2003, and Batman was at his lowest ebb. After Tim Burton’s two films in 1989 and 1992 successfully reinvented the Caped Crusader on the big screen, something seemed to have gone awry.

It gave him a lot of power at Warner Bros, allowing him to make big budget original movies like Inception. It also empowered him to have a pretty big role in the DC universe. Following the success of ...

“From the beginning, my interest was in taking on a superhero story but grounding it in reality, never looking at it as a comic book movie, but rather as any other action/adventure film,” Nolan said, ...