Behind the Scenes
Director
Christopher NolanThe two Nolan brothers may have combined on the screenplay, but the directing job fell to elder brother Chris, who was already a Very Big Deal when he stepped up to helm The Dark K...
Screenwriter
Screenwriter: Jonathan Nolan and Christopher NolanChristopher Nolan and his little brother Jonathan are no strangers to screenwriting. They go all the way back to Christopher's first major motion p...
Production Studio
Syncopy and Legendary Pictures (Warner Bros) There's not a whole lot to tell here, at least as far as the production studio goes. Legendary Pictures was set up in 2000 by Thomas Tull. Soon af...
Production Design
35 mm/IMAXNolan is an old-fashioned filmmaker in a lot of ways. He hates him the computer imagery (it physically pained him to use CG for the bats in the first movie), and anytime he can do somethi...
Music (Score)
Hans Zimmer and James Newton HowardTwo guys took on the soundtrack to The Dark Knight, which actually owes a lot to the score for its predecessor, Batman Begins. Luckily, the same guys were attache...
Fandoms
Batman? Yeah, he doesn't have much of a fan base…Okay, fine. Few pop-cultural characters have as many fans as this guy. They rarely congregate in formal clubs like, say, Oz fans do, and while you...