I’d like to ask a Dark Knight Rises question. It basically says in the trailer, “This is the epic conclusion of The Dark Knight Rises.” Talk a little bit about, for you, looking on this whole thing, and it’s a worldwide phenomenon, are you sort of sad to see it ending? Talk about the mixed feelings on that. Also, what are your thoughts on the final installment? When you first heard the story of what they were going to do, what was your initial take?
ROVEN: You know, well, first of all, I was ecstatic that Chris agreed to finish the trilogy. That was by no means a foregone conclusion. That’s what I was saying earlier. Chris just never would talk about whether or not he would do a third until he finished the second. Then, for a really long time, he wouldn’t even really talk about that because he was totally focused on wanting to finish Inception and see if he could get that made, which obviously in hindsight goes, “Gee, who wouldn’t have made that movie?” But I can assure you, it wasn’t a slam dunk when he presented that script. The budget that it was at, even to the studio that made The Dark Knight, okay, it was an ambitious project, which just think about reading that script. That mind bending script had a really, really, really significant budget, right? We all know it was nine digits, right? So, but Chris was really focused on that. He really needed to have conversations with David for them to come up with what that third story would be. So, I didn’t know. I hoped it would happen. I was actually a fan in that respect. So, when they called up and said, “Hey, we think we’ve got something. We want to come over and talk about it.” I was ecstatic. Then, when I heard it, I was even more ecstatic because I just felt that it was the right way to go out. It’s important to go out the right way, to make the last one something that people are going to remember. So, I hope it will be that way and it feels like it.
