`Dark Knight` director Christoper Nolan discusses 007 influences

"The Dark Knight" director Christoper Nolan discussed how James Bond influenced his new Batman film to SlashFilm.

Q: You’ve said that you’re a big fan of James Bond...

Christopher Nolan: Yeah.

Q: And did you purposely put in some of more of that more secret agenty stuff into this film because of that?

Christopher Nolan: Well, we certainly did in both films. We started it in Batman Begins, and I think the Bond films were a big influence tonally in terms of trying to explain to the studio, you know, if you look at the early Bond films you’ve got extraordinary things happening, but there’s an overall tone you can buy into as a regular action movie. You’re not completely stepping outside the bounds of reality particularly with the earlier films and I think that winds up being pushed even further in this film, partly as a result of not wanting to do everything at night and not wanting to. I mean, if Batman controls the night, in Gotham, than the Joker is much more dangerous in the day, and so the daytime scenes actually become more threatening and more interesting in a way. So you wind up having to deal with, OK, how does Bruce Wayne deal with that during the day as well, so there’s more of that.

Nolan has been rumoured as a potential director for the 23rd James Bond film after "Quantum of Solace" helmer Marc Forster said he will not be returning to the franchise.

Thanks to `Jack Wade` for the alert.

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