The Dark Knight star Aaron Eckhart recently explained why he thinks the superhero genre is suffering at the box office after experiencing massive commercial success in the 2010s.Speaking with Screen Rant, the actor — who portrayed Harvey Dent/Two-Face in Christopher Nolan’s 2008 superhero film — shared that he believes audiences like it when superheroes are grounded in reality. “It’s not what I would tell them. It’s what’s on film. It’s what Chris did,” Eckhart said. “If you take what your question right there and break it up and analyze it, and you say, “The Dark Knight,” which is Chris Nolan, “brought [superheroes] back,” from where? Where did he bring them back from? He brought it and put it right in reality.”Following a string of box office disappointments based on DC superheroes (Batman & Robin, Steel and Catwoman), Warner Bros. entrusted Nolan with rebooting Batman in film. 2005’s Batman Begins, starring Christian Bale as the titular Gotham City vigilante, was a major hit with both critics and fans, grossing a solid $373 million from a budget of $150 million. However, it was 2008’s The Dark Knight that really revived not only DC superhero films but the entire superhero genre. Hitting theaters the same year as Marvel Studios’ Iron Man, the two blockbusters showed audiences that superheroes could be fun while still grounded in reality. While later Marvel Studios productions began to incorporate more fantastical elements, Nolan’s The Dark Knight Trilogy stayed rooted in realism, an angle that the early DC Extended Universe films also took (to an extent).
The Dark Knight star Aaron Eckhart recently explained why he thinks the superhero genre is suffering at the box office after experiencing massive commercial success in the 2010s.
Speaking with Screen Rant, the actor — who portrayed Harvey Dent/Two-Face in Christopher Nolan’s 2008 superhero film — shared that he believes audiences like it when superheroes are grounded in reality. “It’s not what I would tell them. It’s what’s on film. It’s what Chris did,” Eckhart said. “If you take what your question right there and break it up and analyze it, and you say, “The Dark Knight,” which is Chris Nolan, “brought [superheroes] back,” from where? Where did he bring them back from? He brought it and put it right in reality.”
Following a string of box office disappointments based on DC superheroes (Batman & Robin, Steel and Catwoman), Warner Bros. entrusted Nolan with rebooting Batman in film. 2005’s Batman Begins, starring Christian Bale as the titular Gotham City vigilante, was a major hit with both critics and fans, grossing a solid $373 million from a budget of $150 million. However, it was 2008’s The Dark Knight that really revived not only DC superhero films but the entire superhero genre. Hitting theaters the same year as Marvel Studios’ Iron Man, the two blockbusters showed audiences that superheroes could be fun while still grounded in reality. While later Marvel Studios productions began to incorporate more fantastical elements, Nolan’s The Dark Knight Trilogy stayed rooted in realism, an angle that the early DC Extended Universe films also took (to an extent).
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