As a child, a young Bruce Wayne witnesses the death of his parents at the hands of a crazed criminal. As an adult, Bruce travels the world seeking the means to fight injustice. He lives amongst the boroughs of criminals and thieves in central Asia. Eventually, he meets a mysterious figure named Ra's Al Guhl and joins his gang called the League of Shadows. Using his training, he is able to defeat his trainer. Finally meeting up with his estate caretaker Alfred Pennyworth, Bruce Wayne returns to Gotham. There, he becomes the new head of Wayne Enterprises. Together, with the help of the C.E.O. of the Wayne Enterprises Applied Sciences division, a man name Lucius Fox, he dons a new persona: Batman. As Batman takes on the criminals and organized crime underworld of Gotham, a sinister new underbelly of the city is exposed, and a new class of criminal is born. Will Batman be the one to stop them all, or does Gotham need a hero with a face?
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Christian Bale spent two movies complaining that the Batsuit's neck piece didn't let him turn his head, so for this one the costume team finally built in an articulated neck. There's even a little in-joke moment where Lucius Fox tells Bruce the new suit lets him 'turn his head' - a wink at exactly that gripe.
Cillian Murphy played Scarecrow and Tom Hardy played Bane in Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy, and both ended up leading rival factions in Peaky Blinders. Murphy even popped up briefly in The Dark Knight Rises alongside Hardy, so the overlap runs deeper than just the casting choice.
