Fallout Director Jonathan Nolan Wasn’t Sure Of Bane As A Villain In Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises, “…What Heath Ledger Had Done…”

Jonathan Nolan has been busy promoting his new game-based sci-fi series, Fallout. The writer-director is well-known for his exciting collaboration with his brother and filmmaker Christopher Nolan. Among the several projects the Nolan brothers worked together as writers, one of them is The Dark Knight Rises. The superhero film stars Christian Bale and Tom Hardy.

After treating the audience with an amazing The Dark Knight movie in 2008, Christopher Nolan gave fans the third and final film ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ in 2012. The villain, our favourite Batman, had to fight in the threequel was Bane. However, Jonathan Nolan revealed that he wasn’t sure about introducing Tom Hardy’s Bane in the third movie and wanted Riddler as a villain instead.

In an interview with Variety, the Fallout director revealed that he even had discussions about the same with his brother, Christopher Nolan. Jonathan Nolan said, “We had these conversations. Bane came out of a conversation with David (Goyer) and Chris. I was unsure about that at the story stage, but I (didn’t want it to be) backseat driving. Chris understood that what we had done and what Heath (Ledger) had done with (Joker) — you didn’t want to go anywhere near it. I started to play with the idea of the Riddler and what could be done with that character.”