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Volume 58 Tuesday, May 10, 2005 Page 1 of 1

DAVID GOYER ON SEQUELS

This is from empireonline.co.uk

Now here’s confidence for you.

Batman Begins is still a month or so away from opening, but Warner Bros – the studio behind Chris Nolan’s revamping of the Dark Knight – has already put plans into place for building franchise sequels...

“The next one would have Batman enlisting the aid of Gordon and Dent in bringing down the Joker... but not killing him, which is a mistake they made in the first one," Batwriter David Goyer tells the latest issue of US movie magazine Premiere. "In the third, the Joker would go on trial, scarring Dent in the process." Intriguing.

Gordon, in case you were wondering, is Lt. Jim
Gordon, played in Batman Begins by Gary Oldman. ‘Dent’ is Harvey Dent, Gotham’s DA, close friend of Batman’s alter-ego, Bruce Wayne, and the man destined to become the scarred and schizoid maniac, Two-Face. That role has not yet been cast.

But the plotting for an expected trilogy sounds like Goyer, Nolan, star Christian Bale and WB are keen to avoid the mistakes made on the recent series of Batman movies, by consciously establishing an ongoing mythology and a rogue’s gallery, without killing the villains off.

More than that, though, it’s a total retread of the Bat-series, which means that we’re about to get a brand new Joker. With Jack Nicholson too old to reprise the role, there’s sure to be a casting frenzy over one of the most iconic villains in comic book and movie history. May we be so bold as to suggest… Sam Rockwell?

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