5 mind blowing facts about Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight trilogy you probably never came across

The Dark Knight trilogy is a series of three films from Christopher Nolan that gave the superhero genre a new lease of life.

It consists of three films: 2005's Batman Begins, 2008's The Dark Knight, and finally concluded with 2012's The Dark Knight Rises.

The first one worked as an origin story, and the second one showed the Caped Crusader facing off against the Joker. The last one completed the overall story arc. Despite the trilogy being popular and successful, certain things about it aren't well-known.

Here is a list of five such facts that will blow your mind.

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5 facts about Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight trilogy

1) Batman's voice evolution in The Dark Knight trilogy

Christian Bale uses a distinct heavy voice for Batman in the first film. However, the voice changes significantly in the second installment. The tone is more aggressive and rough. Nolan then went on to edit the voice and made it more gritty, which ended up looking inconsistent compared to the first film.

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2) Practical effects have been used thoroughly

Christopher Nolan is known for being a proponent of shooting on-set instead of relying on CGI. It's evident in some of the most thrilling action set pieces in the entire trilogy. This includes the truck flip scene in The Dark Knight and the opening plane crash scene in the third installment. All these scenes were shot for real, which adds to the authenticity.

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3) Matt Damon, not Aaron Eckhart, was supposed to be Two-Face

The character of Harvey Dent was played by Aaron Eckhart. Dent is a DA who eventually transforms into the villainous Two-Face. It's hard to imagine anyone but Eckhart in that role, but he wasn't Nolan's first choice. The director wanted to cast Matt Damon, who couldn't do it due to a scheduling conflict with another film called Invictus. The duo later went on to work in films like Interstellar, Oppenheimer, and The Odyssey.

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4) Heath Ledger's casting as the Joker was met with backlash

Christopher Nolan always wanted to cast Heath Ledger as the Joker. However, this casting decision met with a polarizing response around that time, possibly because of the kind of roles Ledger had done till that point. Ledger got involved and worked on the body language, laugh, and costume of the character. He even improvised several moments in the film.

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5) Hans Zimmer experimented with Joker's theme

Hans Zimmer has composed the score of the trilogy with James Newton Howard. Zimmer used several offbeat methods to produce the theme of Joker. To capture the chaos of the character, he used razor blades and ran them through the piano strings to produce an eerie sound. He also played guitar with metal pieces for effect. The result is a gripping soundtrack with pieces like Why so Serious? and Like Dog Chasing Cars.

Which of these facts about the trilogy blew your mind?

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