Christian Bale

Batman / Bruce Wayne

“It’s very practical...these guys often train in nightclubs...it’s all about using what’s available.” “It’s a really great fighting style.” Taking about KFM: “It was just bizarre enough to get your attention and think ‘What the hell is he doing?’, and then absolutely vicious enough but also practical enough to believe in.”

Chris Nolan

Director

“Keysi reflected quite nicely our approach in terms of script and design, of seeing Batman not as a glamourous sort of branded figure, decorative figure, but as a functional entity.”

Paul Jennings

Stunt Coordinator

“It’s absolutley fantastic!.”

“It’s about being mentally aware of your environment, mentally aware of how people behave and respond to actions and reactions.”

“We’ve had to tone it down a bit.”

Talking about the finale in the train: “Now we can
really focus on using the Keysi style at the end, and
it’s worked out really strong!” And late in the same
segement on the train scenes: “We just wanted it to
be as hard as possible, we wanted to show two men
who are very highly trained and very highly skilled –
very motivated.”

Dave Forman

Fight Arranger

“Because it’s such a tight fighting style I had to adapt it and make the moves bigger.”

“It’s something you need a lot of control on.”

“The Keysi fighting was very close quarters, so it was
a very dangerous art. The hits were direct to very dangerous parts of the body, so we had to be very careful so as not to injure our actors or stuntmen.”

“It’s new, creative and that’s what’s good about the
KFM, you can be creative with it.”

Buster Reeves

Batman Double

“KFM is real, efficient and effective; every move goes straight to the point with no waste of time…”