"I don’t know if there’s anyone like Christian Bale on the planet Earth," McKay told Deadline in a recent interview. "The man’s just amazing... I didn’t just want someone to do an impression of Dick Cheney. What Christian Bale really does is he psychologically breaks someone apart and puts them back together again. I’ve never seen a process like it. I’ve never seen someone work so hard at it, and it is hard on him, but really amazing to watch. The second I thought of doing the movie, I knew right away, the most exciting person to play him is Christian."
