Dark Knight Rises Star Christian Bale Could Be Talked Into Another Batman

In a new interview with Empire magazine, actor Christian Bale–star of The Dark Knight Rises–told a reporter that he would work on a fourth Batman movie if director Christopher Nolan asked him to.”My understanding is that this is the last one. I think it’s appropriate, I think it’s going out at the right time,” the star told Empire. “But…if Chris came to me with a script and said, ‘You know what? There is another story’ then I would love the challenge of making a fourth one work.”That’s not a likely scenario, though; while he’s aboard Man of Steel and a tentative 2015 Batman film as a consultant, he’s made clear for some time that The Dark Knight Rises is his last Batman film as a director, and the Empire interview does little to dispel that, with Nolan essentially saying that it’s Bruce Wayne who interests him, and not Batman–and that he considers Bruce Wayne’s story finished after his third film.