From Haverfordwest to Hollywood! Bats about Christian (From Western Telegraph)

From Haverfordwest to Hollywood! Bats about Christian

THE caped-crusader is back on the big screens this summer with Pembrokeshire-born actor, Christian Bale, donning the lycra bat suit for the superhero blockbuster.

The 31-year-old, whose father David was a pilot stationed at RAF Brawdy, will become the seventh actor to play Bruce Wayne, in Batman Begins, which is released nationwide on Thursday, after its premiere on Sunday.

Starring alongside acting greats Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman, Christian follows in the footsteps of Michael Keaton, George Clooney and Val Kilmer, who have all taken on the cult classic.

The latest instalment, which has already received rave reviews from film critics, promises to catapult the father-of-one to Tinseltown stardom.

Christian first hit our screens as a nine-year-old in the Pac-man cereal commercial before catching the eye in Steven Spielberg's Empire of the Sun.

After beating 4,000 other children to the role in the WWII epic, he went on to star in the remake of Shaft, Captain Corelli's Mandolin and Little Women.

He is best known for taking on the all-consuming role of paranoid psychopath Patrick Bateman in Bret Easton Ellis' cult classic, American Psycho