Varför är Christian Bale inte i den kommande filmen Batman vs Superman?

TL; DR:

Christian Bale är inte i filmen eftersom han ville lämna rollen efter den tredje Dark Knight-filmen. Ben Affleck var valet att ersätta honom.

Långt svar:

Christian Bale ** sa verkligen att han var avundsjuk, men det betyder inte alls att han ville ha rollen själv. Att citera från USA idag :

The former Batman ended his tenure as the masked vigilante with The Dark Knight Rises, but that didn’t stop him from entertaining the idea of going back to the role, he told Empire Magazine (via Comic Book Movie). So even though he knew it was coming, he was still shocked when he heard Ben Affleck had been cast as Batman in Zack Snyder’s upcoming Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice.

I’ve got to admit initially, even though I felt that it was the right time to stop, there was always a bit of me going, ‘Oh go on… Let’s do another.’ So when I heard there was someone else doing it, there was a moment where I just stopped and stared into nothing for half an hour.

But Christian Bale got over his existential crisis and even offered a couple pointers to Ben Affleck.

But I’m 40. The fact that I’m jealous of someone else playing Batman…I think I should have gotten over it by now. I haven’t spoken with Ben, but I emailed him offering bits of advice that I learned the hard way. I would imagine he is doing everything he can to avoid anything that I did.

Med andra ord stannade han för att han tyckte att det var rätt tid att sluta. Det menade inte att han fortfarande fick en liten svartsjuk att höra som hade ersatt honom - men i slutändan var beslutet att sluta vara hans. Han lämnade rollen som sin egen vilja.

Varför Ben Affleck valdes för att ersätta honom. Från Zack Snyder , filmens direktör:

Ben provides an interesting counter-balance to Henry’s Superman. He has the acting chops to create a layered portrayal of a man who is older and wiser than Clark Kent and bears the scars of a seasoned crime fighter, but retain the charm that the world sees in billionaire Bruce Wayne. I can’t wait to work with him.

Slutligen har det beslutet delat fans och bara tiden kommer att berätta hur värdigt ett val han är som den nya Batman.

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För att lägga till ytterligare information om varför Christian Bale lämnade, det här är från ScreenRant :

“We were incredibly fortunate to get to make three. That’s enough. Let’s not get greedy…Chris always said he wanted to make it one film at a time. And we ended up sitting there looking at each other, saying ‘We’re about to make the third.’ We never really knew if we were going to get to be there, but if that was how it was going to be, this was where it should end as well.”

Senare i samma artikel frågas han om vad han vet om den kommande Batmanfilmen. Han svarade:

“I have no information, no knowledge about anything. I’ve literally not had a conversation with a living soul. I understand that they may be making a Justice League movie, that’s it… It’s a torch that should be handed from one actor to another. So I enjoy looking forward to what somebody else will come up with.”

Det är en annan kontinuitet. En omstart av batman. Batman V SuperMan har ett liknande förflutet, men inte exakt detsamma. Som Zack Snyder sa:

This is a total and opposite reality from the Chris Nolan movies. It’s another universe, so we couldn’t hire Christian Bale if we wanted to, because he doesn’t exist in our world. Maybe we could hire him to play another part. We did talk about that briefly. I just wanted to hire Christian to play another part to make that obvious. Christian could play, like, Alfred with age makeup. No! Of course not. But you know what I mean. Even people at the studio would say, ‘Who are you getting from the other movies?’ And I was like, ‘Hey, come on guys, let’s all understand, it’s a different world.’ In the Batman universe that Chris Nolan created, Superman would have a hard time existing. That that’s why we did a reboot on the universe, so we could allow these characters to exist together. We needed to do that to have Batman exist in this world.

Detta öppnar också världen för en ny Joker, som ger vägen till Leto's Joker.

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