Batman Sequel Left up to Nolan!
So we are hearing that the door is wide open for Chris Nolan’s return to the Batman franchise - in fact, Warner Bros. and DC may well scrap it for the man - but they are leaving him to direct the third sequel entirely up to him.
According to the, Hollywood Reporter article that traces the growth of The Dark Knight back three years, producer Charles Roven is copying Horn’s stance that the right of first refusal belongs to Christopher Nolan.
“There are a lot of us who emotionally would love to do it,” Roven says. “But it’s really Chris’ call. Chris is the kind of filmmaker who just doesn’t think about the next movie before he has completely finished the movie he is working on.”When will we find out? Sometime after Nolan returns from his extended holiday. “When he comes back, we will see how he feels,” Roven insists.
So this is a topic that will not die until a third film ends up in theaters. Nolan and his team are under lots of pressure to build upon the story of Batman they have laid out. My opinion is that how they ended they still have al ot of material they want to continue exlporing whether that be Batman’s Redemption or a full circle story bringing the most complex inner and outer demon of the Bat out. All the talk that we have done about the Riddler, Catwoman, Penguin and other villains that they can bring in is exactly what happened to the Batman franchise after the 1989 film and the fans had too much input thus creating crowd pleasing villains and shitty! movies!
I feel like Nolan should come back and tell more of the story but certainly it will be interesting if he doesn;t and Warner Bros really won’t pull out another sequel, I do not know if I buy that part of the story.
Please explain to me how fans had a lot of input back in 1990? How did that happen? Did they freakin have letter writing campaigns that I do not remember? Did Burton go on Sally Jessee and ask America to pick the next three VILLIANS?
Silliness aside: fans have never had any input on the Batman films. The only fans of the Bat to have any input on a Batman film are Chris Nolan and his brother John. Outside of those two, the Bat films have been ran by a guy whose too GOTH to get BATS, or studio execs wanting family fare.
Nevertheless; it’s up to Chris and Johnathan to decide if they want to complete this arc. I would not blame them if they caved from the pressure of following up the second biggest grossing film of all time, but I am betting these two have what it takes to complete this trilogy.
Why does everyone think everything needs to be a trilogy anyway?
And this isn’t the second biggest grossing movie of all time, not when you adjust it for inflation. Doing that dethrones even Titanic.
Batman was so long it was like watching two movies. I could see Nolan not wanting to do another one because it would be hard to top The Dark Knight. I see him producing and letting someone else directing the movie. Maybe let his brother give it a shot.
Let’s not forget that Nolan didn’t do ‘The Dark Knight’ right after ‘Batman Begins’, he went off and did something else in the meantime, which was ‘The Prestige’. He could go and do something else and then come back, it wouldn’t be a bad idea and it gives him some distance from the material before immersing himself in it again.
Oh Coyote: you want to be my huckleberry. Well, good luck with that, and stay on your side of the road.
That aside; OF COURSE IT’S A TRILOGY! NOLAN EVEN STATED AS MUCH DURING THE JUSTICE LEAGUE FILM TALK. He stated that Warner Brothers should wait until he finished his story. He may have even brought up trilogy. So the man has plans for another movie.
It also was not as long as two movies. If it were. It would be the TWO MOST AWESOME MOVIES EVER! Nevertheless; Bats’ arc is not complete. Go read the freakin interviews revolving around TDK. It’s obvious that Batman may have some redemption coming in three years.
Sure he could WANT it to be a trilogy, but does it NEED to be a trilogy? Why not let the story play out instead of shoehorning it into three films? There are plenty of stories one could tell from the universe Nolan has set up. HE could do a personal trilogy with him behind, but his Batman universe is so good, it deserves more than three films, and its good enough to where it wouldn’t be played out.
Coyote: I do not live in fear of crap sequels. I do not live in fear of things going south. It’s not like a bad Batman film is going to wreck anything. We already have four of those to watch!
The thing of it is: this story is incomplete. Begins and TDK work as the opening and middle acts of a three-act story. Bats obviously needs to be redeemed, and that would be the third act.
I know that everything is a trilogy these days, but Nolan and his brother are telling a rather grand story about a superhero. It could go on for more than three films, but this arc needs closure. It needs Bats redeemed, the Bat signal replaced, and the Batcave being fully operational.
It’s not like we need this story tomorrow, but every subsequent viewing of TDK makes it more and more clear we do need this story. We need it to be told in order to make everything complete.
And I agree with you, the story arc they have set up does demand completion, and a third film should do that. All I was saying is that we could get more story arcs and tales from this universe after this arc is completed, and that Nolan’s Batman need not go out to pasture is all.
I don’t live in fear of lame sequels, if a movie I fee is bad is made out of a property I love like Batman or Superman or any number of Marvel heroes, chances are we’ll get a better one later. Lord knows we might not have gotten Batman Begins as we know it had Batman & Robin not bombed so spectacularly
We also might not have gotten Bale as Bats. If it were not for WORLD’S GREATEST faltering. We at least agree on something, that’s an accomplishment! WOOOOOOOOO!!!!