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| Credits | |
| Title: | Batman Begins |
| Director: | Christopher Nolan |
| Writers: | David S. Goyer; Christopher Nolan |
| Producers: | Larry J. Franco [1]; Benjamin Melniker; Lorne Orleans [2]; Charles Roven; Emma Thomas; Cheryl A. Tkach; Michael E. Uslan |
| Composer: | James Newton Howard; Hans Zimmer |
| Cinematography: | Wally Pfister Haris Zambarloukos [3] |
| Editors: | John Papsidera; Lucinda Syson |
| Production | |
| Distributed by: | Warner Bros. Legendary Pictures |
| Released: | June 15th, 2005 |
| Rating: | PG-13 |
| Running time: | 140 min. |
| Country: | USA |
| Language: | English |
| Budget: | $150,000,000 [4][5] |
| Gross: | $206,852,432 (US) [6] $374,218,673 (Worldwide) [7][8] |
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Batman Begins is an American feature film of the action and superhero fantasy genres. It is based on the character of Batman featured in comic book titles published by DC Comics. This is the first installment in what has since come to be known as "The Dark Knight Trilogy". The movie was directed by Christopher Nolan and written by Nolan and David S. Goyer. It was produced by DC's parent company, Warner Bros. and released through Legendary Pictures. The film premiered theatrically in the United States on June 15th, 2005.
Cast[]
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
| Christian Bale | Batman, Bruce Wayne |
| Michael Caine | Alfred Pennyworth |
| Liam Neeson | Henri Ducard/Ra's al Ghul |
| Katie Holmes | Rachel Dawes |
| Gary Oldman | James Gordon |
| Cillian Murphy | The Scarecrow, Doctor Jonathan Crane |
| Tom Wilkinson | Carmine Falcone |
| Rutger Hauer | Earle |
| Ken Watanabe | Ra's al Ghul |
| Mark Boone Junior | Flass |
| Linus Roache | Thomas Wayne |
| Morgan Freeman | Lucius Fox |
| Larry Holden | Finch |
| Gerard Murphy | Judge Faden |
| Colin McFarlane | Commissioner Loeb |
| Sara Stewart | Martha Wayne |
| Gus Lewis | Bruce Wayne, Age 8 |
| Richard Brake | Joe Chill |
| Rade Serbedzija | Homeless man |
| Emma Lockhart | Rachel Dawes, Age 8 |
| Christine Adams | Jessica |
| Catherine Porter | Blonde female reporter |
| John Nolan | Fredericks |
| Karen David | Courthouse reporter #1 |
| Jonathan D. Ellis | Courthouse reporter #2 |
| Tamer Hassan | Faden's limo driver |
| Ronan Leahy | Uniformed policeman #1 |
| Vincent Wong | Old Asian prisoner |
| Tom Wu | Bhutanese prison guard #1 |
| Mark Chiu | Bhutanese prison guard #2 |
| Turbo Kong | Enormous prisoner |
| Sai-Kit Yung | Chinese police officer |
| Chike Chan | Chinese police officer |
| Tenzin Clive Ball | Himalayan child |
| Tenzin Gyurme | Old Himalayan man |
| Jamie Hayden | Stocky Chinese man |
| David Murray | Jumpy thug |
| John Kazek | Dock thug #2 |
| Darragh Kelly | Dock thug #3 |
| Patrick Nolan | Dock cop #1 |
| Joseph Rye | Dock cop #2 |
| Kwaku Ankomah | Doc cop #3 |
| Jo Martin | Police prison official |
| Charles Edwards | Wayne Enterprises executive |
| Lucy Russell | Female restaurant guest |
| Timothy Deenihan | Male restaurant guest |
| David Bedella | Maitre d' |
| Flavia Masetto | Restaurant blonde #1 |
| Emily Steven-Daly | Restaurant blonde #2 |
| Martin McDougall | Gotham dock employee |
| Noah Lee Margetts | Arkham thug #1 |
| Joe Hanley | Arkham thug #2 |
| Karl Shiels | Arkham thug #3 |
| Roger Griffiths | Arkham uniformed policeman |
| Stephen Walters | Arkham lunatic |
| Richard Laing | Arkham chase cop |
| Matt Miller | Gotham car cop #3 |
| Risteard Cooper | Captain Simonson |
| Shane Rimmer | Older Gotham Water Board technician |
| Jeremy Theobald | Younger Gotham Water Board technician |
| Alexandra Bastedo | Gotham society dame |
| Soo Hee Ding | Farmer |
| Conn Horgan | Monorail driver |
| Phill Curr | Transit cop |
| Jack Gleeson | Little boy |
| John Judd | Narrows bridge cop |
| Sarah Waterridge | Mrs. Dawes |
| Charlie Kranz | Basement club manager |
| Terry McMahon | Bad SWAT cop #1 |
| Cedric Young | Liquor store owner |
| Tim Booth | Victor Zsaz |
| Tom Nolan | Valet |
| Leon Delroy Williams | Pedestrian |
| Roger Yuan | Hazmat technician |
| Joe Sargent | Narrows teenager #1 |
| Mel Taylor | Narrows resident |
| Ilyssa Fradin | Barbara Gordon |
| Andrew Pleavin | Uniformed policeman #2 |
| Jeff Christian | Driving cop |
| John Burke | Arkham lunatic cell mate |
| Earlene Bentley | Arkham Asylum nurse |
| Alex Moggridge | Arkham Asylum orderly |
| Jay Buozzi | Asian man; Ra's al Ghul's decoy |
| Jordan Shaw | African boy in rags |
| Omar Mustafa | Falafel stand vendor |
| Patrick Pond | Opera performer #1 |
Notes & Trivia[]
- Batman Begins redirects to this page.
- Production on Batman Begins began on March 3rd, 2004. Principal photography concluded on September 17th, 2004. [9]
- Batman Begins received an 85% "Fresh" rating on the movie review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes. The rating is based on 265 reviews, 224 of which gave it a positive rating with 41 giving it a negative rating.
Recommendations[]
Burton/Schumacher series[]
Nolan series[]
- Batman Begins
- The Dark Knight
- The Dark Knight Rises
See also[]
Batman Media
The World of Batman
Batman miscellaneous
External Links[]
- Batman Begins at AMG
- Batman Begins at IMDB
- Batman Begins at Wikipedia
- Batman Begins at Metacritic
- Batman Begins at the Batman Wiki
- Batman Begins at Rotten Tomatoes
References[]
- ↑ Producer Larry J. Franco is credited as Larry Franco in this film.
- ↑ Lorne Orleans was a producer on the IMAX version of the film only.
- ↑ Haris Zambarloukos was a second unit photographer on the film.
- ↑ IMDB; Batman Begins (2005); Box office & business
- ↑ Box Office Mojo; Batman Begins (2005)
- ↑ IMDB; Batman Begins (2005); Box office & business
- ↑ IMDB; Batman Begins (2005); Box office & business
- ↑ Box Office Mojo; Batman Begins (2005)
- ↑ IMDB; Batman Begins (2005); Box office & business