Christopher Nolan Not Yet Signed on for The Dark Knight Sequel
As soon as most people left the theatre after watching The Dark Knight, they were already thinking about the next installment and the endless possibilities for another kick ass movie. And while the insane box office success of the movie means that there will almost certainly be a sequel, the question remains: who will direct it? There is an obvious assumption right now that Christopher Nolan will return to direct the third part of his trilogy, but apparently he hasn’t actually signed on yet.
While I seriously doubt that he’d want to let anyone else continue the story at this point, it does seem a little strange that Warner Brothers wouldn’t have signed him to three films up front. I’m pretty sure they signed all the major actors for three films. Word on the street is that Chris Nolan “is the kind of filmmaker who just doesn’t think about the next movie before he has completely finished the movie he is working on”. Makes sense I guess… don’t get ahead of yourself. Currently he is on vacation, and he hasn’t even announced another project to follow up The Dark Knight. I’m hoping he will he do another movie like The Prestige before returning to the Batman franchise, but the WB seem to be setting up a pretty tight schedule for their future comic book movies. If for some reason Nolan didn’t return, do you think the franchise would crumble without him?
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They could always give Joel Schuhmacher another shot. What could go wrong?
Posted by Matt on August 27th, 2008There are many reasons for the new Batman series to be successful. Two of those are Christopher Nolan and Christian Bale. I don’t know if I would have been as hyped up about Batman Begins if it wasn’t for them and the absolute serious notoriety they bring to the table. Nolan has set up pretty much everything in this Batman universe that I wouldn’t like any other director messing with it.
For me it’s Nolan or no go.
Posted by Julien on August 27th, 2008Seriously, I’m all for bringing Arnold Schwarzenegger back into the franchise as well. Mainly because it pisses me off that everybody rags on the comedic films, especially after this last film. I loved Arnold Schwarzenegger in Batman & Robin, as I do in all his films, I would love it if he came back in the same manner.
Just for fun, I’ll copy/paste this humourous (but of course, completely pointless, Batman doesn’t have to make sense to be succesful, it doesn’t make any sense to begin with) rundown of Joker activity, written by Tuesday Morning Quarterback Gregg Easterbrook, who is a great writer (and often has amusing tidbits shooting down movies, like wanting a scientific explanation for how the monster in Cloverfield could work. He likes Pixar though, so probably is a cocksucker in real life). It’s from his NFC preview (and you can find his articles if you search for tmq in google, it’s the first link):
During training camp, Jon Gruden canceled an August afternoon practice so the team could go see “The Dark Knight.” That harks back to Gruden’s youthful days — let’s blow off practice and go see a movie! The latest Batman installment is a hit, and well-made from a cinematography standpoint, but the Joker character was unrealism carried to an extreme, even by Hollywood’s low standards. The Joker has hundreds of obedient, superefficient henchmen, including surgeons and high-ranking police officers, who serve him without question — even though they know he murders his own henchmen. The Joker knows things no one could possibly know, such as what street the police van carrying Harvey Dent will turn down during a wild chase. (He has henchmen positioned on that street, one of dozens the van might have turned down). The Joker can get poison into the police commissioner’s private office without anyone suspecting anything. City officials make a sudden decision to load several hundred people into ferries; in just a few hours, Joker is able to place thousands of pounds of explosives aboard the ferries without anyone noticing, plus rig devices to take over the ferries’ engines. Joker is able to move thousands of pounds of explosives into Gotham General Hospital without anyone noticing. Positioning the explosives for the two giant-blast sequences in “The Dark Night” would have required large trucks and a front-loader carrying multiple heavy objects through places crawling with police officers without anyone noticing. Joker always knows exactly where everyone he wants to kill is in a huge city (how?); he’s beaten to a pulp by Batman, yet just minutes later, easily overpowers a huge policeman; Joker steals from the mob, yet no mob soldier simply shoots him. Joker has a bomb sneaked into the jail where he’s being held — somehow he knew in advance what cell he would be in! — and it blasts open the jail wall, plus kills all the police officers standing around the Joker, but does not hurt him.
Posted by Henrik on August 27th, 2008If Arnold comes back, why not just let Cher play Catwoman and be done with it.
http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/688660/Next_Catwoman_IsCher_WTF.html#readmore
Posted by Matt on August 27th, 2008I think it’s pretty important that Nolan finish off the trilogy. I don’t doubt that they will restart batman in a way that is more in step with a justice league film here soon but this iteration that Nolan and company started shouldn’t be rushed and should be allowed to run it’s course. I agree that he should take a break from it and do another movie before returning to finish the story.
Posted by Ian on August 27th, 2008To put it simple, if Nolan doesn’t do the 3rd film, it won’t hold up with the first 2. Nobody wants that.
Posted by ShenEvil44 on August 27th, 2008If not Christopher Nolan, why not Tim Burton again. Lets see what he will do with the stuff after almost 20 years of absence.
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