New Batman title officially released and confirmed by Nolan.

http://movies.ign.com/articles/113/1130726p1.html

Nolan has stated that the Riddler will not be in the movie. It's also common knowledge that there will be a new "leading" female introduced in the third installment. Everyone with "sources" seems to think that Two Face will be a villain despite articles like this (http://movies.ign.com/articles/907/907656p1.html).

I for one am ok with Catwoman. I learned to stop questioning Nolan's interpretations of Batman and just have blind faith. As far as my thoughts on Two Face, I wish that Nolan would have used him for a greater percentage of his franchise than the pathetic amount that he did, but dead is dead. I would be aggravated to see Nolan go back on his word.

Lastly, Tom Hardy of Inception has been confirmed as a major role in the next film. All things point to him playing a villain, which at this point is of course nameless.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0362766/

10/27/2010 1:46:40 PM

10/27/2010 1:50:20 PM

Not the biggest fan of the title, but I'm sure the movie will impress

THE EMPIRE RISES

THE TWO TOWERS RISE

THE TEMPLE OF DOOM RISES

10/27/2010 1:50:30 PM

Quote :

"Det. Harvey Bullock (rumored)"

10/27/2010 1:51:16 PM

I have my initial doubts, but I'm sure this will be great if it's anything near as good as the last 2

10/27/2010 2:56:47 PM

i will never doubt Christoper Nolan.

10/27/2010 3:02:46 PM

Tom Hardy is the man.

10/27/2010 3:14:02 PM

iop1

Maybe "Two Face" will be dead, but Harvey Dent will live on

10/27/2010 3:27:10 PM

Lame on the name. Seriously. Hell call it batman 3.

Catwoman would be possible, and with Hardy playing a villain, they normally paired her with Penguin. I dont see him playing that but its possible.

10/27/2010 3:28:43 PM

Quote :

"i will never doubt Christoper Nolan."

Reading the first few pages of the Dark Knight thread is proof of that.

10/27/2010 3:49:34 PM

Quote :

"...they normally paired her with Penguin."

I'm not Batman aficionado, but is this necessarily true? I mean we all know that Batman Returns was Catwoman/Penguin, but is there any real precedent for that duo. Catwoman was in the very first Batman comic, so she doesn't exactly need another villain to give her an intro to the story.

Sure there are probably comics, cartoons, fan fiction where they are teamed up against Batman, but I don't think it's fair to say they "normally" pair Catwoman /w Penguin. I mean hell, in the world of beaten to death comic book characters everyone has been teamed up with everybody.

/ran off


As far as the female roll, I would absolutely love to see:



Of course it won't happen, though. She is actually linked to Joker, and wasn't even introduced in the comics, but in the 90's animated series.

10/27/2010 4:23:32 PM

fake but sweet looking

10/27/2010 11:08:37 PM

base this shit on the long halloween

i'm all 'bout that shit

10/27/2010 11:16:21 PM

maybe batman could be a detective in this movie

not that unbelievable CSI bullshit from the dark knight

10/27/2010 11:51:23 PM

A friend and i had a discussion about what the core story of the movie would be. In the dark knight, the base of the story is that we are watching gotham city react to the fact that batman exists. This theme is touched on in the end of batman begins.

But one thing that we never saw in the dark knight is batman/bruce coming to terms with rachels death. In the dark knight, batman doesnt ever have time to come to terms with her death. He had to deal with the joker and two face. So one of the possibilities for the base plot is that the movie, or part of the movie, is about how batman reacts to rachels death. Dent's death too.

Nolan might decide to not touch on her death in the next film, but i seriously doubt he would. I can imagine him throwing batman into a seriously depressed state because of her death and the fact that he cant go fight crime without the cops hunting him like a dog.

Or he could do something completely different.

10/27/2010 11:59:12 PM

Please None of These:
Catwoman, Penguin, Mr. Freeze, Killer Croc, Man-Bat, Clayface

Mainly no Catwoman just because I haven't liked any take on her yet, and the other ones just because they'd be mainly CGI or I just don't like the character(looking at you Penguin). And while I was hoping for a Joker and Harley Quinn would have made a great next movie, without Joker you really can't have Harley Quinn.

I really was hoping for The Riddler because it would allow for the realistic villain and world that Nolan has created so far.

Personally with those out of contention, I think the best movie would be based on Bane. If he plans on having a 4th movie, I think it would be great to end it with the famous Bane breaking Batman's back. Which could set up a 4th movie where he could eventually take Bane down. Just not sure if Nolan would go that route.

The only other characters I could see them doing would be Hush or if they wanted a female-lead/villain they could go with Talia al Ghul, though not sure she'd be a strong enough villain to lead.

10/28/2010 8:12:20 AM

I both expect and hope that this features the Riddler.

10/28/2010 8:15:52 AM

^ did you read the article?

Quote :

"Speaking to Hero Complex, Nolan revealed that the Batman 3 title will be The Dark Knight Rises, and in a move that may surprise some fans, he said that the film's villain won't be The Riddler. "

I too was hoping it would be the Riddler but that was really disappointing to read.

10/28/2010 8:33:41 AM

1) Yeah I didn't read shit.
2) Damn.

10/28/2010 8:35:57 AM

I'm still looking forward to this, but I really hope it's not Catwoman. I've never really liked her.

10/28/2010 8:40:56 AM

I don't mind Catwoman as a character, but... well, I dunno... Putting Catwoman into movies just has not had a good track record (besides the fact that Halle Berry is hot, but that doesn't make a good movie).

10/28/2010 8:46:01 AM

I was kind of done with the Joker character but he found a way to make the character compelling again. I suspect he could do the same with Catwoman but it would be a much steeper hill to climb... for me at least. Couldn't be more disinterested in seeing Catwoman.

10/28/2010 9:07:04 AM

I liked catwoman in Batman Returns, but, with Nolan's genius, I would rather see a different character developed.

10/28/2010 9:21:34 AM

Harley Quinn would be cool, but nearly impossible to pull off. For her to resonate you really have to understand her relationship with the Joker and how deeply she's invested in him. And considering she wasn't in TDK and Heath Ledger is no longer with us you can't truely build that backstory and it would be really hard to convince your basic audience what drives her motives.

10/28/2010 9:37:19 AM

has nolan ruled out recasting the joker?

10/28/2010 9:45:59 AM

no, i'm just assuming all of america has

10/28/2010 9:50:00 AM

^The thing about recasting the Joker is that whoever they get to play it would have to play Ledger's Joker, not their own. People would hate it before they even saw it.

I for one wish they would have done more with the Scarecrow. He was never really much of a match for Batman in Batman Begins and he barely showed up in The Dark Knight. I'd like to see him come back in the future and have the hallucinations from his fear toxin be a lot scarier.

10/28/2010 9:55:00 AM

10/28/2010 9:57:25 AM

cmooooon Egghead!

10/28/2010 10:01:36 AM

I wonder if it's gonna be Professor Hugo Strange

10/28/2010 11:13:23 AM

hmm, what about poison ivy?

from penguin's wiki

Quote :

"Nolan Series On the website The Gotham Times, a promotional website for the 2008 film The Dark Knight, an advert for the Penguin's club, the Iceburg Lounge, appears on page 3 of issue 2."

also references to zsasz in either batman begins or TDK although i don't see him carrying the villain load alone.

[Edited on October 28, 2010 at 1:58 PM. Reason : update]

10/28/2010 1:48:46 PM

10/28/2010 2:30:55 PM

Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the Joker please.

10/28/2010 3:08:41 PM

^If they include the Joker in any form, he has my vote as well.

10/28/2010 5:26:58 PM

Quote :

"I for one wish they would have done more with the Scarecrow. He was never really much of a match for Batman in Batman Begins and he barely showed up in The Dark Knight. I'd like to see him come back in the future and have the hallucinations from his fear toxin be a lot scarier."

Absolutely this. Arkham Asylum turned him into a legitimately scary villain (because the fear toxin actually exploited things batman is really afraid of, plus his awesome costume design), and I'd love to see what Nolan would do with the character.

Hell, I'd even be happy if Nolan just made a movie version of Arkham Asylum's Scarecrow. The gas mask and syringe gloves are so perfect for him I'd rather not go back to the old design.

[Edited on October 28, 2010 at 5:37 PM. Reason : .]

10/28/2010 5:34:26 PM

well I'll go ahead and bring up that scarface puppet character, yes it might come off as corny but the character was genius in a way, clayface might be cool, they just couldn't make him some giant monster that can morph in to shit like in the cartoon, oh well i doubt either will happen but I also don't quite really understand what options are left without the riddler except for doing joker again, catwoman seems like too much of a suspension of disbelief for nolan

10/28/2010 5:48:40 PM

Batman vs Aliens?!?!?!

Can you say perfect movie!?!?!

10/31/2010 12:05:44 PM

10/31/2010 1:17:32 PM

Batman is not in Gotham

taking time away to do some international detective work

Ra'as Al Ghul is the main villian again, gets involved with Talia as well

something like that could work.

10/31/2010 1:52:30 PM

^^I am praying that DC comes out with a crossover film around the same time Marvel finishes the Avengers movie

10/31/2010 3:00:27 PM

I don't think Superman can exist in the Nolan Batmanverse

10/31/2010 3:17:37 PM

it's going to have catwoman or talia or huntress or some other chick, they always force a love interest on him

they won't just do that person alone though, they'll have someone like bane or black mask or hush or the riddler as the main villain, someone they can do in a realistic manner

hope he's back in a real batcave too

10/31/2010 3:25:03 PM

oh yeah he should be back in the mansion by the next movie
at the end of the first one, they said they were going to rebuild it and also take the opportunity to "modify" certain parts of it

i'm assuming by this new movie it will all be finished and ready

10/31/2010 4:08:06 PM

I'm still really hoping for Bane.

10/31/2010 4:33:15 PM

^ Like my favorite female character, he is an infant in the batman universe. I sort of think he will steer clear of him because Batman and Robin has cursed the role.

Talia would be great. The story is perfectly set up. I think a VERY strong main villain would have to accompany her though. Neither Bane nor Hush fits that build imo. They strike me as more supporters.

Hugo Strange would be pretty great, but that would mirror Batman Begins too much; if Talia were to be included that it. Scarecrow/Ra's vs. Hugo/Talia...it's really the same movie.

As far as Huntress is concerned; isn't her affiliation with Batman is daughter via Catwoman, in an alternate universe no less?

10/31/2010 6:06:20 PM

Poison Ivy will probably be the female this time around.

I think they could pull it off alot better than Uma did.

11/1/2010 11:54:37 AM

I still want John Malchovich as the riddler

http://herocomplex.latimes.com/2010/10/27/christopher-nolan-reveals-title-of-third-batman-film-and-that-it-wont-be-the-riddler/

11/1/2010 8:23:24 PM

I liked "Shadow of the Bat" as a title.

ANYWAY! I've always looked at the end of TDK as Harvey Dent being dead, not Two-Face.

But I may have been too analytical in the characters' choice of words.

And I'd love to see Tom Hardy as Killer Croc, much like Brian Azzarello's interpretation of him in the "Joker" graphic novel.

11/1/2010 8:46:26 PM

i would not be at all upset if Two-Face was the main antagonist this time around. They both share a common thread and a shared loss that Two-Face completely blames on Batman. It won't take the entire first act of the film to convey why he's the antagonist and thus can use that time to bring this story of Batman full circle as Christopher Nolan has always said.

11/1/2010 8:59:44 PM

I also keep forgetting that Victor Zsasz is out there from the first flick ...

11/1/2010 9:07:45 PM