David S. Goyer Says Warner Bros. Execs Were Upset It Takes an Hour to See Christian Bale in the Batsuit in ‘Batman Begins’

It’s nan 20th day of “Batman Begins,” truthful of people nan tributes and retrospective interviews are flowing for illustration nan Caped Crusader’s… er… cape. The film‘s co-writer David S. Goyer conscionable took to nan Happy Sad Confused podcast to stock that nan Christopher Nolan blockbuster, wide considered a top-tier classical of superhero cinema, did not needfully person its greatness recognized by nan Warner Bros. execs successful nan leadup to its 2005 release.

There was 1 sticking constituent successful particular: The truth that Christian Bale‘s Bruce Wayne is not really seen successful nan Batsuit arsenic Batman until astir an hr into its moving time. Most of nan movie to that constituent is astir his pre-Batman life, including his training in martial arts pinch nan League of Shadows successful a Himalayan eyrie.

“They were not happy astir that,” Goyer said connected nan podcast (via Variety). “No disrespect to nan actors who played Bruce Wayne anterior to this, and arsenic moviegoers we were ever twiddling our thumbs waiting for nan characteristic to get into costume and for nan movie to begin. But why is that?”

So to reside this issue, Goyer and Nolan compared erstwhile Wayne’s debut arsenic Batman occurs successful “Batman Begins” pinch nan first infinitesimal Clark Kent is afloat successful costume successful Richard Donner’s “Superman: The Movie” and different superhero movies and “clocked nan infinitesimal into nan movie nan characteristic had put connected nan costume… We weren’t that overmuch farther than them!”

More than immoderate Batman big-screen adjustment to that point, though, “Batman Begins,” and nan trilogy it spawned, was intended to beryllium a characteristic study. So location was existent intent down that desire to get audiences to cognize and attraction astir this characteristic earlier he puts connected nan Batsuit.

“We knew reasonably early connected that we needed to person nan assemblage autumn successful emotion pinch Bruce Wayne,” Goyer said. “We had to person an astonishing action series that progressive Bruce Wayne and not Batman. That’s really we came up pinch that monolithic flight from nan temple and him sliding down nan ice.”

Fair to opportunity nan rapturous reception audiences gave this movie is what yet mattered successful nan end, not nan position of nan suits.