Bale Begins: Christian Bale’s Batman Screen Test

Busy day here at the Crisis On Infinite Midlives Home Office – my taking part in the Day of Dredd a few days back reminded me how woefully undereducated I am about that character, so I spent a big chunk of the day jumping from my local comic store, where they know me by name and ask me to to refrain from offering to show them my rigid helmeted justice, to local book stores, to chain book stores, and finally to the Internet to obtain or order the first five volumes of Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files.

Further, Amanda and I are tired of our only contribution to the weekly Breaking Bad water cooler conversations being, “Blue meth? Bullshit! I’ve never seen blue meth… why are you looking at me like that?” and thanks to Netflix are very close to being up-to-date with that show, with only a few more TiVo’ed episodes to go from this current season before we are (hopefully) current for next week’s finale.

But still, we don’t want to leave you empty handed, so here’s a little video from the upcoming Dark Knight Trilogy DVD / Blu-Ray. Specifically, it’s Christian Bale’s audition video for Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins.

Supposedly Bale was wearing one of Val Kilmer’s Batman suits from Batman Forever, which might shed some light on why Bale was using that raspy voice: it’s possible that he was busily being infected by whatever form of mutant super herpes that have made Kilmer act like such a loon for the past… well, at least since The Island of Dr. Moreau.

Anyway, while we watch Walter White try to outwit Hank from about six weeks ago, you can catch Bale’s first work as Batman after the jump. And we promise, we will return to our regularly scheduled programming tomorrow.

(via IGN Comics)