Storhetsvansinne eller bara klumpigt uttryckt? Nog vet vi alla vad mästerregissören Christopher Nolan menar när han under måndagen sade det han sade om dagens reboot-klimat, men det lät ju knepigare än vad det i grunden var tänkt.
"It's a sign of how quickly things change in the movie business, but there was no such thing conceptually as a 'reboot.' That idea didn't exist when I came to look at Batman. That's new terminology. Warner Bros. owned this wonderful character, and didn't know what to do with it. It had sort of reached a dead end with its previous iteration.
If you look at what Tim Burton did, it's specifically about a world that was created that Batman fits into. It's this great Gothic vision that's very consistent, and consistent with the character of Batman. What I felt I hadn't seen, especially in comics, was an ordinary world in which we could be living in Gotham. When a Gothamite sees Batman, he's as extraordinary as he would be in our world. I wanted an extraordinary character in the background of an ordinary world. That isn't what Tim did, so I thought it was a whole other direction to go in."
Om vi bara snabbt försöker minnas filmvärldens mest namnstarka reboots innan Nolan gjorda Batman Begins är följande titlar några av de vi kommer att tänka på, utan betänketid; The Mummy, Dracula, Frankenstein, Godzilla, Apornas Planet, Jack Ryan, Superman, King Kong med flera. Nu kanske de inte kallades för "reboots" på sammaq sätt som de hade gjort om de släpptes idag, och där har ju isåfall Nolan helt rätt. Eller vad säger du?