Batman 3: IMAX Compatible
Tue, July 20, 2010 
Back in April, cinematographer Wally Pfister (The Dark Knight, Inception) shared his ideas for an entire Batman flick shot in the IMAX format. He and Nolan talked of shooting Inception in the format as well but agreed that the "hand-held camera" style they were aiming towards wouldn't quite work.
MTV now has an exclusive interview with the cinematographer about his plans for the upcoming Batman 3 and how he feels not only about IMAX shooting, but also the new go-to format, 3-D:
"I can't say until I read the script, but it would certainly be my preferred, amazing goal to shoot the whole movie in IMAX," Pfister said.
"I must say I'm a huge IMAX fan. I like IMAX more than I like 3-D," he explained. "Chris' films are so densely layered and have so much going on visually in every way that IMAX helps enhance that because of the scope and the scale of it — it becomes a much larger canvas to paint on. That's what we found on 'Dark Knight.'
"I'm not a big fan of 3-D," he continued. "I liken it to my View-Master I had 40 years ago. Are you really getting more out of the story with 3-D? When you separate those different planes and you're creating artificial depth, it looks phony to me."
Last year I would've leaned against his comments with the 3-D format. I was beginning to enjoy some of the films that were made specifically for the technology. When I actually go back and compare them to what the IMAX scenes brought and what the capabilities of an entire film shot with those cameras could bring, it heightens my anticipation further.
3-D is beginning to wear itself thin, and the idea of an entire live-action film in a huge, crisp format, I believe, benefits more for the general audience and the movie itself. I'll be keeping my fingers crossed that they find away to make this happen.
You can read the entire article here.
Reader Comments (3)
yea i like 3d as much as some folks do. but i am getting sick that almost every film now is being shot in 3d or released in post production 3d conversion. though if they shot batman 3 in full imax that would be pretty sweet.
Inception seemed like it would have really taken advantage of the 3D format.
I don't think it would have J. The visuals as stunning as they were would not have benefited from 3D. There wasn't that many scenes that were as mind bending as the trailers make it look, and 3D would have made the plot secondary which is not what Inception was about at all.