At the Res­cue Dawn press event Super­Hero­Hype were there to quiz and talk to Chris­t­ian Bale about The Dark Knight. He had this to say about film­ing the sequel:

“Peo­ple aren’t ques­tion­ing, ‘Are they going to do it or not?’ [Refer­ring to suc­cess of Bat­man fran­chise after the Bat­man and Robin atroc­ity] There’s been an accep­tance of, ‘Yes, these guys know what they’re doing’ and also, because we got so famil­iar with each other… it’s now the third movie that I have made with Chris (Nolan) and Michael Caine. I’ve got­ten to know every­body. We all know how we all work. It’s like my 5th movie with the D.P. It just flies along because there’s no ques­tion in try­ing to sort of work each other out at all. We all know how we like to do it, and there’s a nice short­hand between us all in terms of com­mu­ni­ca­tion.”

And when asked about out-doing Bat­man Begins and the pres­sures of build­ing on such a suc­cess­ful film,

“If we’re just doing the same, then what’s the point? There are peo­ple who should demand that. […] That would be the death knell, wouldn’t it? If we all got com­pla­cent, just said, ‘Oh, we just have to bang out the same thing we did before.’ Sure, we use the strengths, and we’re not going to dis­card the things that worked, but we’ve got to move for­ward as well.”

Super­Hero­Hype are also run­ning a new spoi­lerific report on some film­ing in Chicago.

And for fun, here’s Heath and Bale hav­ing din­ner together: