Christopher Nolan’s Most Shocking Unmade Movie Would’ve Transformed His Career

Batman Begins completely changed the course of Christopher Nolan’s career, but the movie he almost made instead would have kept him from being the blockbuster action director he’s known as today. The 2005 Batman movie was Nolan’s first major Hollywood movie, and while the film didn’t break box office records, making just $373 million worldwide (via Box Office Mojo), it was overwhelmingly positively received and led to the billion-dollar-grossing The Dark Knight. Nolan’s plot-twist-heavy writing and envelope-pushing directing led to him becoming the 21st century’s most reliable action director, making billions of dollars with clever and epic PG-13 blockbusters.