BATMAN BEGINS By Leroy Douresseaux Jun 14, 2005 - 7:36:00 PM

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BATMAN BEGINS

WARNER BROS. PICTURES
Presents a Syncopy Production
DIRECTOR: Christopher Nolan
WRITERS: David S. Goyer and Christopher Nolan, from a story by Goyer (based upon BATMAN characters created by Bob Kane, and other people who don’t get credit, especially Bill Finger)
PRODUCER: Emma Thomas, Charles Roven, and Larry Franco

Starring: Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Liam Neeson, Katie Holmes, Gary Oldman, Cillian Murphy, Tom Wilkinson, Rutger Hauer, Ken Watanabe, and Morgan Freeman

from the press kit: How does one man change the world?

It’s a question that haunts BRUCE WAYNE (Christian Bale) like the specter of his parents, gunned down before his eyes in the streets of Gotham on a night that changed his life forever.

Tormented by guilt and anger, battling the demons that feed his desire for revenge, and his need to honor his parents’ altruistic legacy, the disillusioned industrial heir vanishes from Gotham and secretly travels the world, seeking the means to fight injustice and turn fear against those who prey on the fearful.

In his quest to educate himself in the ways of the criminal mind, Bruce is mentored by a mysterious man called DUCARD (Liam Neeson) in the mastery of the physical and mental disciplines that will empower him to fight the evil he has vowed to destroy. He soon finds himself the target of recruiting efforts by the League of Shadows, a powerful, subversive vigilante group headed by the enigmatic leader, RA’S AL GHUL (Ken Watanabe).

Bruce returns to Gotham to find the city devoured by rampant crime and corruption. WAYNE ENTERPRISES, his family’s former bastion of philanthropic business ideals, now rest in the hands of CEO RICHARD EARLE (Rutger Hauer), a man more concerned with taking the company public than serving the public good.

Meanwhile, Bruce’s closest childhood friend, RACHEL DAWES (Katie Holmes), now an Assistant District Attorney, can’t secure a conviction of the city’s most notorious criminals because the justice system has been so deeply polluted by scum like crime boss CARMINE FALCONE (Tom Wilkinson). It doesn’t help that prominent Gotham psychiatrist, DR. JONATHAN CRANE (Cillian Murphy), bolsters insanity defenses for Falcone’s thugs in exchange for nefarious favors that serve his own devious agendas.

With the help of his trusted butler, ALFRED (Michael Caine), detective JIM GORDON (Gary Oldman) – one of the few good cops on the Gotham police force – and LUCIUS FOX (Morgan Freeman), his ally at Wayne Enterprises’ Applied Sciences division, Bruce Wayne unleashes his awe-inspiring alter-ego: BATMAN, a masked crusader who uses strength, intellect, and an array of high tech weaponry to fight the sinister forces that threaten to destroy the city.

Visit the film site at www.batmanbegins.com. TM & © DC COMICS. ©2005 Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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