The Dark Knight Jonathan Nolan: Creative Screenwriting Interview!

[The Guard]

"Yeah uh...you know how umm...in the comics...sometimes Batman sort of like, has to decide whether or not to kill The Joker? You know, like, the crux of their relationship is that they need each other? Well we...in later script stages, we totally did that in our movie. It's so layered and umm...anything you don't like is Chris and David's".

 

[DoomGeneration]

weird...no english accent. where he and chris separated, adopted?!?!

from what I understand, chris and family moved to Chicago when he was a teen. Jonah being the younger brother probably grew up speaking with a flat accent. But if you listen closely its a bit like bale's American accent, where a little bit of English peaks through - like when he says "process"

 

[wikum]

weird...no english accent. where he and chris separated, adopted?!?!

My guess is Chris grew up in England, whereas Jonathan grew up in America. I think there is a pretty big age gap between them.

Great interview by the way!

EDIT: there is only a six year age gap between both of them. Nolan is only 37...I'm pretty shocked how good a director he is for someone so young. He has like another thirty years left in him!

 

[Asteroid-Man]

weird...no english accent. where he and chris separated, adopted?!?!

Are you kidding me? I hope that's sarcasm.

 

[jtfaria]

You can download it here!

http://creativescreenwritingmagazine.blogspot.com/

Thanks for this, Harry. I searched and could not find it for the life of me.

 

[hame4479]

Great Interview, listen to it.

 

["V"]

Very interesting. Thanks.

 

[Batmania]

An interesting listen. Thanks for the link.

 

[Va3H]

Nice interview

 

[gillberg2k1]

"Yeah uh...you know how umm...in the comics...sometimes Batman sort of like, has to decide whether or not to kill The Joker? You know, like, the crux of their relationship is that they need each other? Well we...in later script stages, we totally did that in our movie. It's so layered and umm...anything you don't like is Chris and David's".

Haha. WOW.

 

[Anita18]

weird...no english accent. where he and chris separated, adopted?!?!

As people have mentioned before, Chris grew up in London and Jonah grew up in the US.

Although, in The Prestige interview (in the same podcast) last year, you can hear Jonah's accent shift mid-way. It sorta threw me when I heard it.

 

[BatmanFanatic]

"Yeah uh...you know how umm...in the comics...sometimes Batman sort of like, has to decide whether or not to kill The Joker? You know, like, the crux of their relationship is that they need each other? Well we...in later script stages, we totally did that in our movie. It's so layered and umm...anything you don't like is Chris and David's".

Ah, I luv ya Guard. ROFL