XtremelyBaneful
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I heard a rumor that Bale was supposed to get paid $50 million for being in BvS but that rumor wasn't substantiated. Well, I didn't know he really was approached for #4 but I'd say he made a terrible mistake walking away. To hell with Christopher Nolan's dream. The only film in his series that was a masterpiece was TDK, BB and DKR are good films but I think they and the trilogy in general is overrated. There is nothing so special about that series that makes me feel like it was better off left alone. On the contrary it would have been better off getting expanded upon and being the real kickstarter to the DCEU, not MoS.WB did actually approach Bale about continuing but Bale relented out of respect for Nolan’s wishes.
“When they came [to us after ‘Batman Begins’] and said, ‘You want to go make another?’ It was fantastic, but we still said, ‘This is it. We will not get another opportunity,'” Bale said. “Then they came and they said, ‘OK, let’s do the third one.’ Chris had always said to me that if we were fortunate to be able to make three we would stop. ‘Let’s walk away after that,’ he said. Then when they inevitably came to us and said, ‘How about a No. 4?’ I said, ‘No. We have to stick to Chris’ dream, which was always to, hopefully, do a trilogy. Let’s not stretch too far and become overindulgent and go for a fourth.'”
- Christian Bale.
Granted, Bale here is saying they asked him about returning to the role for a potential fourth installment instead of returning for the role long-term for a shared universe, but one can easily imagine his answer would be the exact same if they asked him to return in the role in a similar MCU Iron Man fashion. Nolan views his version of Batman as a stand-alone take with a definitive beginning, middle, and end, told in three movies so Bale wants to honor those wishes. Unless Nolan somehow gives the stamp of approval(which is very unlikely), I don’t see Bale willingly returning to the role under any circumstances; no matter how much money WB offered him. So even the option to continue with Bale in the role after TDKR — be it a fourth film, or for a cinematic universe wasn’t available for WB like you’re making it out to be. Leaving rebooting the character with a new actor as the only possible option for them.
Of course he will. But for the time being, audiences have had only one cinematic portrayal of Iron Man for 12 years. And that span of time is longer than the gap between Batman and Spider-Man reboots. Right now, there is still no reboot in sight, only a passing of the mantle. If a Tony Stark shows up in the MCU again via multiverse, then it's still the same ongoing story being told so I wouldn't consider that a reboot. A soft reboot maybe, but it wouldn't meant to disregard RDJ's portrayal since it'd still be in the same continuity. It isn't exactly the same as all the speculation about NwH with the legacy Spider-Man potentially showing up there.Iron Man is gonna be rebooted eventually. Whether it be new continuity or finding some way to pluck someone out of the multiverse or whatever, there will be a new Iron Man at some point. All these characters will get a reboot at some point. The popular ones at least