Jonathan Nolan bullied big brother Christopher into making Dark Knight
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Sometimes, when the chips are down, the best way to get your brother to direct a sequel to a Batman movie is bullying. Just ask Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan’s arm-twisting younger brother. Appearing on Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast [per Variety], Jonathan Nolan set about embarrassing his older, Oscar-winning brother by telling Shepard about how he bullied his big bro into making another Batman. What’s Chris going to do about it? Cry? Nolan said that he worked on Batman Begins in...

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