“The last Batman film that had come out prior to Batman Begins was, I think, Batman & Robin, which was the fourth in a series. Meanwhile in 90s Gotham, three actors and two very different directors took a crack at portraying Batman. ‘Should we reboot this thing? Is it past its sell-by date?’ So that was the challenge,” Campbell told IGN. Let's sort of make it our own, basically,’ which is what we did, but it was not so much a reboot as an extension of now we had Pierce and so forth. “It was just thinking, ‘Well, it's a Bond film, let's pull it into the '90s. Martin Campbell directed not only Casino Royale, but also Pierce Brosnan’s first outing as Bond in 1999’s Goldeneye, which, to the director’s mind, didn’t really count as a reboot. 90s cinemas were littered with 60s TV show reboots from Lost in Space to The Avengers to The Saint, while Bond and Batman saw more subtle tweaks to their respective formulas in the decade. Reboots were nothing new by the mid-2000s. First, there’s the introduction of a new idea, second comes an intriguing building period as creatives suss out just what the value of this new idea is, third there’s the zenith where form and function work together and something genuinely great comes out of it, and fourth comes the inevitable slow decline that wears out the idea’s welcome. Of course, nearly every trend follows a pattern and the gritty reboot is no different. And the legacies of both have benefited from releasing such successful reboots. Both are entries into franchises that date back to 1960s, both are the only true origin story on film for either Batman or James Bond, and both take a decidedly more grounded approach than their predecessors. On top of both being enjoyed by fans and critics alike, the two films were created using incredibly similar recipes.

Where the gritty reboot is concerned, the trend saw its pinnacle in 20 with Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins and Martin Campbell’s Casino Royale. These films created a high-water mark for the trend and brought a Hollywood shorthand into the mainstream consciousness. In the mid 2000s, two of cinema’s biggest franchises reinvented themselves at the same time-Batman and Bond. Even something that’s become a tired cliché had, in its past, a window of actually invigorating creativity. But like every trend worth its salt, the “gritty reboot” had to be a good idea at least a few times. For a while it was something we came to expect, from Superman to Snow White.

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