'Batman 3' release date confirmed

That still doesn't explain how people in the movie business can be saying he is going to get nominated and win an award in February when the film doesn't open for another few months and nobody has seen it.

An opportunity arose when he died and the studios saw that opportunity to play on it. You must see Heath in his last role...except it wasn't as he was midway through filming something else, but we'll ignore that.

A similar thing happened on a much smaller scale with Brandon Lee in The Crow. it's tragic blah blah blah, you have to see thsi film it's amazing and the last thing he ever did blah blah blah. Brandon Lee as an actor was an nobody. Yes he could have gone on to do great things, but then so could many other actors that die young or don't get their lucky break.
That film got hyped up big time because of his death. Had he lived it wouldn't have had the same impact as it did IMO because it didn't have that link with tragedy.
When you look at Brandon's career pre-that film it was nothing. When you look at Heath's he had some good stuff but most of it was average or poor.


The Dark Knight (2008) .... Joker
I'm Not There. (2007) .... Robbie
Candy (2006) .... Dan
Casanova (2005) .... Casanova
Brokeback Mountain (2005) .... Ennis Del Mar
The Brothers Grimm (2005) .... Jacob Grimm
LorRAB of Dogtown (2005) .... Skip
The Order (2003) .... Alex Bernier
Ned Kelly (2003) .... Ned Kelly
The Four Feathers (2002) .... Harry Feversham
Monster's Ball (2001) .... Sonny Grotowski
A Knight's Tale (2001) .... William Thatcher
The Patriot (2000) .... Gabriel Martin
Two HanRAB (1999) .... Jimmy
10 Things I Hate About You (1999) .... Patrick Verona
Paws (1997) .... Oberon

With the exception of Brokeback that back catalogue has nothing to warrant the kind of hype his early death created. Pretty much all of them were flops or unheard of films.
Had he not been in TDK coming later that year would there have been such a big deal about his final perfomance in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009) saying he hould be nominated etc when nobody had seen the film as it hadn't been released yet?
 
I think the Catwoman - Batman relationship could take centre stage - like Batman/Joker,it has enough depth and gritty realism to fit right into Nolan's concept.That's not to say The Riddler shouldn't feature heavily,because Batman neeRAB an arch-enemy to fight.He could be a Keyser Soze type genius criminal,but the movie should also include some new mob figures.
 
With what was said here, I think number 3 will be the last one, which I think would be good. Too many sequel are what pretty much ruins a good set of films, look at the original four Batman films.
 
I would hope when it comes to introducing robin, they would have learned their lesson and stay well away

Nolan certainly would not go near him

can't think that any possible future 4th movie would ever go the robin route either

wrong kind of universe
 
It certainly seems like Nolan is making this as a trilogy.Could he do something outlandish,such as killing off Bruce Wayne,or would the powers that be veto that one?
 
Certainly. :)

When you think of some franchise films they have the franchise name and then the film title seperated by a colon.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.

With these films they stay using individual titles and not a franchise first.

1) Batman Begins
2) The Dark Knight
3) ??

It's not impossible that the next one is called The Dark Knight 2 or The Dark Knight Returns (or variant) but IMO it's unlikely they will.
This being the case, why on film number 4,5, 6 etc would they suddenly revert back to the title of the second film in some capacity?

I hope that makes sense?

As well as the reason I just explained, I think it would also ive the impression that the new film is going to be like TDK so will get compared to it even more than it is going to be.

I think when they make more of these films after Nolan departs they need to avoid The Dark Knight/Frank Miller(?) version of Batman and give it it's own identity.

They've done the camp (Adam West), gothic (Burton), bright comic book (Joel Schumacher) and The Dark Knight (Nolan).

Next one/batch neeRAB to go somewhere else. Especially if they do make a Justice League America film. How would an dark nolan version of Batman fit in with the likes of those other characters. I can't really see a similar dark Wonder Woman film.
 
I was asking in particular about a possible future (but not necesarely the 3rd movie in the current series) adaptation of Frank Miller's Dark Knight Returns.

If they make a movie adaptation of that comic at some point in the future then personally I dont see the problem with the movie being titled The Dark Knight Returns, as the comic.

Apparently Zack Snyder would be up for if it ever it were to get ever the go ahead.
 
Filming begins in March 2011, according to a Los Angeles Times reporter.

""The future looks fascinating for this 39-year-old auteur (Nolan), and I plan to ask him about the third Batman film, which starts shooting in March."

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