After the Batman and Robin debacle of 1997, Warner Brothers struggled to get the Batman franchise in motion again and suffered lots of stops and starts with various scripts and filmmakers.
After the Batman and Robin debacle of 1997, Warner Brothers struggled to get the Batman franchise in motion again and suffered lots of stops and starts with various scripts and filmmakers. Finally, Christopher Nolan came along and everything fell into place. Telling the Batman origin in depth for the first time on screen, Nolan approached the Dark Knight with a hyper-realism that made audiences forget the buffoonery of the Schumacher era and embrace Gotham City once again.