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Volume 88
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Wednesday, October 12, 2005
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Page 1 of 1
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This is from about.com
About: Will you be doing Batman Continues?
Nolan: Well, it certainly won’t be called that. That’s the title most commonly thrown at me. Actually, I have been talking
to the studio and to David Goyer about directions for a sequel because we’re certainly very excited still about the world we were
able to dive into and the characters we were able to put on screen. It’s a pretty interesting bunch of people and an interesting
place, so we’re definitely talking about places we would take it.
About: Will you use two villains again or is the Joker going to be enough?
Nolan: I wouldn’t want to talk about any specifics per se. All I can really say is it’s a film we’re talking about doing.
About: Boy, I had questions about Robin and Vicki Vale too.
Nolan: Like I said, I can’t really go into details.
About: The first time around, the studio sort of lost track of the Batman franchise. Do you have a sense they won’t make the
same mistake this time?
Nolan: Well, to me it’s more about the filmmakers and their collaboration with the studio. I don’t think
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you can necessarily lay all the blame at the feet of the studio or all the blame at the feet of the filmmakers. With franchise properties,
with the idea of sequels, as I see it, the only reason to do a sequel is to do something better than the film you’ve made before. That’s
the reason you have to be doing it, with that kind of intention. That’s the only way in which I would enter into the process.
About: Let me try a philosophical way of asking: Could Robin be introduced without dumbing down the series?
Nolan: Possibly, but I can’t really talk about specifics.
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