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Volume 385
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Wednesday, September 12, 2012
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This is from msn.com
Now that director Christopher Nolan has completed his trilogy of Batman films with the arrival of "The Dark Knight Rises," the question has naturally come up:
what happens next?
After all, just because Nolan has finished his story, that doesn't mean we've seen the last of the Caped Crusader on the big screen. There's no doubt, in fact,
that he will be back. Nolan's movies have been an incredibly successful enterprise, and Batman remains the most lucrative screen property in the DC Comics canon.
Despite the horrifying events in Colorado, The Dark Knight Rises has done incredible at the box office and Warner Bros has a tremendous interest in keeping Batman
in the public eye for years to come. The question is, how does the company make that happen?
Well, there are three or four major ways we can think of, and before we discuss them, we should warn you that the following will contain major spoilers for "The Dark
Knight Rises." So if you haven't seen the movie yet, stop reading here. Okay? We've warned you...
The first and seemingly most obvious way to go would be to keep future Batman movies in the Nolan universe, even if Nolan himself isn't involved directly as a writer
and director. Although
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everyone involved went to great lengths to say that "The Dark Knight Rises" was the end of this story, there was clearly enough left open-ended at the finish of the
film to allow several threads to be picked up.
First of all, Bruce Wayne/Batman isn't dead. He has simply retired for good, somewhere in Italy. Could he be persuaded to return to Gotham once again and fight yet
another menace to the city? We suppose that depends on how much money the studio would be willing to offer Bale even though he's said he's done with the character as
well. Frankly, this is the least likely possibility: it does feel like Bale won't be back in the cape and cowl.
If Gordon-Levitt was up for it, and the studio was comfortable with making a Batman movie in which Bruce Wayne is not the Caped Crusader, then this is how they could
continue the franchise in Nolan's version of Gotham City.
While not having Wayne in the Batsuit would be controversial, it could open up all kinds of possibilities. There could be tension and drama as Blake learns what it
means to actually become Batman, with all the physical and mental challenges it entails. The question of his identity could come into play with both the public and
Commissioner Gordon. And a whole new set of filmmakers could get the chance to play in this
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