Jonathan Nolan talks THE DARK KNIGHT

By: Karl Schneider
Date: Thursday, October 19, 2006
Source: Sci Fi Wire

In an interview with Sci Fi Wire, Jonathan Nolan talked about the writing process that goes into creating a script with his brother Christopher Nolan.

"We do discrete drafts," Jonathan Nolan said. "We tried at various points to write together, and that doesn't work. We both think of writing as a tortured and solitary process. And so I'll do my draft, but there's always a dialogue there, always conversations. I mean, he's right now fixing all my mistakes on The Dark Knight, and we're talking about it. And then I'll hopefully get back in there and do a little more work on that film. We sort of tend to bounce the script back and forth as complete drafts."

He continued, "The adaptation there is from 60 years' worth of unbelievably talented, creative people working on one character. So that's a really fun job, because you get to read thousands of comic books and sort of get to choose what's good and what's not good. And then you also get to sit around and say, 'All right, what would I like to do with this character who's been so well developed and such a rich sort of background?' That's a really, really fun job. I'd think we'd be more nervous about making a sequel to something, but with that character it really is so much fun to work on. Hard to mess up."