Christopher Nolan recently told Empire that he wasn't entirely sure about including Catwoman, played by Anne Hathaway, in The Dark Knight Rises. Nolan said it was his brother and co-screenwriter Jonathan "Jonah" Nolan who turned him around on it.
"I was nervous about how she would fit into our world," said Nolan. "But Jonah was very much convinced that there would be a great way to do it and eventually turned me around. Once I got my head around the idea of looking at that character through the prism of our films, saying, 'Who could that person be in real-life?' we figured it out. She's a bit of a con-woman, something of a grifter. A hard-edged kind of criminal."
Jonah Nolan added, "Chris often comes from a position of, 'Why should we do this?' You know, presumed guilty. But I said, 'What we're endeavoring to do here is tell a complete take on the Batman mythos'. And a complete take of the Batman mythos without the character for me was sacrilegious. You've gotta gave her, because she has a delicious greyness to her that helps define who Batman is. She keeps wavering on this line of, 'Is she a good guy or a bad guy?' Well, she's kind of neither. And that's why, to me, that relationship and that character only enhances the universe - and the Batman character." He also said that "Anne Hathaway threatens to steal the show."
In addition, David Goyer told Empire that the final scene of the movie is "completely unchanged" from what they imagined it would be when they began the rebooted series with Batman Begins. Goyer said, "We both knew in our hearts that we were onto something special. I have to tell you, having finally seen everything strung together a little while ago and seeing that scene, I got a complete lump in my throat."
The film opens July 20th.
