CHRISTIAN Bale’s caped crusading has given Batman a blacker edge in The Dark Knight , but the humble Welsh actor believes a film depends only on the director’s decisions. Promoting The Dark Knight in Los Angeles, Bale finds himself at the centre of two new films based on well-loved movies — the Batman franchise and the Terminator trilogy. Terminator Salvation is not an origin story — that was done in the Arnold Schwarzenegger originals — but the film crew is hoping to continue the storyline, Bale says. In The Dark Knight , Bale says the tension comes because The Joker wants to prove that everybody has a price, including Batman. Before putting on the Batsuit, Bale — who was first noticed at just 13 in Steven Spielberg’s Empire of the Sun — had concentrated mostly on independent films and slavishly transformed his physique for roles. He was athletic as the serial killer Patrick Bateman in American Psycho , and was literally emaciated in The Machinist , starving himself on a diet of apples and coffee, before having to rebuild his muscle mass again for Batman Begins . read more
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