Return dates have just been announced for HBO's Boardwalk Empire and Treme, which are both back for their third seasons.
Boardwalk will debut its 12-episode season on Sunday, September 16 at 9pm ET/PT. Treme, meanwhile, launches its 10-episode season the week after that on Sunday, September 23 at 10pm ET/PT.
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Imagine The Empire Strikes Back as a Spanish-language telenovela and you end up with Galaxia de Pasion:
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Director Christopher Nolan was initially reluctant to include Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises. So what prompted the change of heart?
In an interview with Empire (pointed out via /Film and CBM, Nolan credits his brother and TDKR co-screenwriter Jonathan "Jonah" Nolan with helping him see the value of including the feline fatale. "I was nervous about how she would fit into our world. But Jonah was very much convinced that there would be a great way to do it and eventually turned me around," said Nolan. "Once I got my head around the idea of looking at that character through the prism of our films, saying, 'Who could that person be in real-life?' we figured it out. She's a bit of a con-woman, something of a grifter. A hard-edged kind of criminal."
Jonathan Nolan added, "Chris often comes from a position of, 'Why should we do this?' You know, presumed guilty. But I said, 'What we're endeavouring to do here is tell a complete take on the Batman mythos'. And a complete take of the Batman mythos without the character for me was sacrilegious. You've gotta gave her, because she has a delicious greyness to her that helps define who Batman is. She keeps wavering on this line of, 'Is she a good guy or a bad guy?' Well, she's kind of neither. And that's why, to me, that relationship and that character only enhances the universe - and the Batman character." He also said that "Anne Hathaway threatens to steal the show."
And what about the much-hyped secret ending of The Dark Knight Rises?
David Goyer, who co-plotted the Batman trilogy with the Brothers Nolan, said the final scene of The Dark Knight Rises is "completely unchanged" from the one the filmmakers envisioned years earlier at the start of the franchise's reboot. "We both knew in our hearts that we were onto something special. I have to tell you, having finally seen everything strung together a little while ago and seeing that scene, I got a complete lump in my throat."
