Top Ten Reasons to Make Batman 3 and Why Chris Nolan Needs To Direct It

Posted on Tuesday, June 2, 2009 at 2:08 am by AlexHaas

15big Top Ten Reasons to Make Batman 3 and Why Chris Nolan Needs To Direct It Inception news has been incredibly quite for about a full month now and we’ve been struggling to keep to entertained until its production starts. (Which should be in about another month.)

Anyways, this isn’t exactly “new” news, but Teddy and I found it very interesting. This is RopeofSilicon.com’s “Top Ten Reasons to Make Batman 3 and Why Chris Nolan Needs To Direct It.”

10. Because to not do it would cause a global riot (except in Japan where they hated it)

Outside of Japanese audiences not taking to The Dark Knight the rest of the world couldn’t get enough and to deny such a large group of people the chance to see the caped crusader on the big screen yet again would not lead to a group of happy fans.

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9. To shut up all the people who think Rachel Dawes is alive and is Catwoman

Argh, this is something that bothers me to no end, as well as does the â€œTwo-Face is aliveâ€ argument. Fans of Chris Nolanâ€™s Batman series love the films for their realistic approach to the storylines and yet still believe there is a chance Nolan would lower himself to the point of such a simple plot twist as, â€œYou thought he was dead, but he really wasnâ€™tâ€ and use it as a cliffhanger…

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8. Because Nolanâ€™s Batman trilogy has the potential to become the first truly great comic book trilogy

There has yet to be a superhero to be featured in three consecutive great films. Superman had Superman and Superman II. X-Men had X-Men and X2. While I am not a fan of the Spider-Man films I know fans love the first two films in that franchise. Blade did well for two films until he lost his audience. Just imagine buying Chris Nolanâ€™s Batman trilogy and actually wanting every film in it.

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7. New Batmobile, Wayne Manor and Batcave

The Batmobile was destroyed so either Batman needs to just continue rolling around in his open-air Bat-pod or something new needs to be created. I remember when I first saw the Tumbler and thought how ridiculous it looked, then I saw it in action and couldnâ€™t have been more impressed. On top of that we will get to see the rebirth of Wayne Manor and Bruce Wayneâ€™s new Batcave.

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6. The chance to finally explore Arkham Asylum

Arkham has been mentioned in both Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, but we havenâ€™t really gotten a good glimpse at its inner-workings, an oversight that could be remedied in a third film.

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5. Because we need to end all the villain rumors

I donâ€™t know about you, but hearing the endless barrage of â€œJohnny Depp should play ___________â€ in every upcoming movie is getting so old. I canâ€™t imagine Chris Nolan turning to a name the size of Depp as his next villain and the amount of speculation surrounding his involvement I would say has pretty much killed any chance of him being cast, and the same goes for Philip Seymour Hoffman.

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4. Because you donâ€™t end a franchise with your hero as the villain who the public now hates.

The end of The Dark Knight had Batman driving off into the blackness, characterized as the villain as Commissioner Gordon took an axe to the Bat-signal. Sorry folks, you just donâ€™t end your franchise with your hero as the villain with the city he has saved hating him. That is unless you truly were going for the darkest superhero tale of all-time and never planned on offering your hero a chance for redemption. If that is the case, good on yah.

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3. Because opening the film with Batman as the perceived villain is just too tasty to ignore

Continuing the idea of Batman as the villain, as much as you canâ€™t end the franchise with him painted as the baddie it is just too good a conceit to leave it up to our imagination. How does he regain the trust of Gotham? What must Batman do to once again become the cityâ€™s savior and have them love him for it? It seems like such an impossible task, but I canâ€™t imagine they didnâ€™t think about digging the hole without knowing how they were going to fill it back up.

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2. Because you canâ€™t abandon such a unique and realistic comic book superhero

Chris Nolanâ€™s Batman franchise is the most realistic approach to a superhero franchise I can think of, at least in terms of one where the hero dresses up in a suit and wears a mask. For all intents and purposes, should someone have enough money and the motivation there is no reason why someone couldnâ€™t come damn close to becoming a real life Batman. The idea is crazy to think of, but it isnâ€™t far from the truth.

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1. Because if Chris Nolan doesnâ€™t do it Brett Ratner will

Coming up with the #1 reason was quite simple. We all know Batman 3 is going to get made and we assume it will be made by Chris Nolan with his writing team including his brother Jonathan Nolan and David Goyer. However, if that didnâ€™t turn out to be the case who would Warner Bros. turn to? Fox turned to Brett Ratner for X-Men 3. Ironically enough New Line turned to David Goyer for Blade: Trinity. Warner Bros. previously turned over their first Batman franchise from the hands of Tim Burton to Joel Schumacher and super-nipples were born. While I realize there are certainly other directors that could carry the Batman mantle into the future I canâ€™t think of any reason why Warner Bros. would want them to. In my book we need Chris Nolan to direct the third Batman film just to ensure someone like Brett Ratner does not.

So there you have it. What do you think? Have you got anymore reasons why it should be made? Iâ€™m sure you do. Weigh in below.

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Irfan

Its Nolan's call. If he deems it necessary and has a compelling story he should direct it but if his heart isnt in it he should walk away. Simple as that.
Vince

This is a really great top ten list Alex. Please tell me Brett Ratner will not make this movie, I think I rather have Woody Allen direct it.
DHOPW42

It's a torture that still we don't know if Nolan takes on the 3rd movie or not. I just can't stand this situation:-D I hope that he will, and in fact, I'm 100% sure that he will, but… who knows. I know I would be terribly sad if he says "no" to the project. I just hope he won't do that.
Joe

Dark Knight was crap and so is your stupid, web-site.
Joe

nevermind, don't listen to me, i am stupid.
DHOPW42

Yes, you are:-D And thank you for your very informative comments.
Don

Steven Spielberg, Brian De Palma, Timur Berkmadov (Wanted) Ridley Scott, Tonny Scott, Quentin Tarrantino, James Cmeron, What do you guys think? as director? if not Nolan
AlexHaas

@Don If Chris Nolan wasn't going to direct Batman 3, I'd certainly feel like it was a bad decision on his part. But hey, if he doesn't think that any idea of his could top The Dark Knight, then I stand by him. As far as any other directors? I'd feel comfortable with either James Cameron or Steven Spielberg.
TeddyBlass

I wouldn\'t want another director to take over the story and world Nolan created in the first two. However, I think directors like Paul Greengrass, Martin Campbell, David Fincher, Marc Forster would have interesting takes on the series.
Charbonier

Ridley Scott if nolan refuse to do it
DHOPW42

Paul Greengrass and David Fincher, definitely. I think they are the kind of directors who just cannot make bad decisions. Along with Nolan, of course.
F4rrel

The stupid that wrote this article shoud have readed it before posting.: Point # 9 "and yet still believe there is a chance Nolan would lower himself to the point of such a simple plot twist as,
DHOPW42

Excuse me, but if you read the whole text at the original website where this was published, then you could realize, that the author of that article noted, that he knows, that Gordon's situation is the same, but IT'S NOT THE SAME THING, because it was just a small part of the movie, and it was necessary because of the capturing of the Joker. You should read the whole text before posting your comment.
wearmo

Obviously, Nolan is the ONLY director that should do the third one. Having completely re-done this franchise incredibly well and realistically, it should NOT even be considered without him, period! However, (in the realistic and unfortunate case)that he was not on board to do the third one and WB was rushing to get it done (which is very plausible), the directors that should be considered for visual reasons: Martin Campbell, Paul Greengrass, David Fincher, Bryan Singer, James Cameron, John McTiernan, even Michael Mann and Ridley Scott would do a decent job visually. Considering David S. Goyer's piece of garbage he called "The Unborn", I really hope he stays as far away as possible from the trilogy. Everything he has written is pretty dumb and ridiculous. His ability to write decent dialogue is worthless. Thank god the Nolan bros assisted in writing the Batman films or who knows how terrible they would have been. Tony Gilroy should replace him as the third writer. But chances are Goyer will end up directing and writing the trilogy with Alex Kurtzman. There goes another franchise down the tube.
AlexHaas

@wearmo Agreed!
Chris

Don't worry Nolan is doing it. There have been movie sites out there that report that by signing on for Inception Nolan signed on for a third Batman. But it still bugs me that Nolan just hasn't come out and said, "yes I'll make another one." Don't worry Batman 3 will be made by Nolan. No doubt.
DHOPW42

I agree with you, Chris. I think Nolan knows that this is the last Batman-movie he MUST make. I mean, nobody expects from him to make a fourth movie. We, the fans only want him to make the last part of the trilogy. It's our only wish. If after the 3rd movie he says: "Thank you, it was a pleasure for the last 6 years, but I'm not gonna make another Batman-movie", it's okay. We never thought he would do that. But the only thing, we WANT from him, is to make the 3rd movie. And I think he knows that. So all in all, I think he's gonna make it:-D
Don

I know, I know that we all want Nolan back. But he stated in an interview that this will be a tough decision to come back. I mean how many third part movies were there that surpassed the sequel? Cameron didn't want to do anything with T3. But lets look at the possible worst scenario. If Nolan will step down, Danny Boyle (Slumdog, Sunshine, 28 Days Later) would be my first pick. The guy haven't done a bad movie at all, even Spielberg did a shitty job on World of the Worlds and Jurassic Park 2, I wouldn't give Steven a sequel to f it up. Or how about giving Schumaher one more chance? Lol just kidding guys.
Don

One more question do you guys think that since he casted Di Caprio in Inception does Nolan want to test Leo in this film so that he would give cast him in Batman3. I think Di Caprio is a great actor. After Ttanic everyone thought that he has no talent, but he did a great job in Gangs of N.Y, Aviator (nom 4 oscar) and Departed. If so Di Caprio would make a great villain, like Heath Ledger he hadn't got a role to play a bad ass. He would make a great Joker or Riddler. And I want to see a Joker in B3.
Andy

I think the biggest thing that we have to think about here is that Nolan isn't going to come back just because the studio "needs" him to make a movie. It has to be a good script. Everyone says that, but particularly for this story, it has to be. I think all of us expect it to be made, but we also don't want a piece of shit movie, either. I think that's what Nolan's got to be thinking about. I felt that DK was so dark and violent that how does Batman come back from that, especially being the villian. I'm no screenwriter, but I've tried to think of possible storylines and to me, it'll be damn hard to capture a storyline that lives up to what DK was (no matter who the villian(s) are). Having said that, I can see Nolan walking away if the script isn't compelling enough. Think about this, though, when Nolan was cast as the director (and I LOVED Memento), did any of us think that he would do as a fantastic a job as he did? My point is that if it is another director, it might be someone that we're not thinking of that might not be a big name, but could get the job done. The most important thing here is not to just do a sequel just to do a sequel (look at Major League 2)…
Chrissy M

Well, I'm a fledgling screenwriter myself… and if Nolan's like any other filmmaker I know (which he may well not be) then no matter how much he fought it he will have been thinking of the 3rd. Even if he doesn't want to! I bet it's popping into his head all the time… With the setup of TDK's finale there is a great story there. My general idea's revolve around the idea of IDENTITY and a very Batman oriented strory. The state of Gotham with no Batman – the public asking where he is, the Batman coptycats on the rise spawning JOKER copycats (escalation remember…). Wayne's fractured state of mind, having caught up with the grief of losing Rachel – lost without batman in many ways, being forced to live as Bruce Wayne all the time… someone will come along to force Batman out hiding. Maybe his identity secret identity may come under threat… But! Will Bruce want to be Batman again? Lol, I'm getting myself excited – just my random musings, feel free to bare no heed.
jpm

I like TeddyBlass' idea of Martin Campbell – he brought a hard hitting sense of realism to Casino Royale that mirrors Nolans reinvigoration of the Batman franchise. It also shows that he could make it brutal and convincing enough whilst accomplishing a broad spectrum rating to make the film available to everyone, as with The Dark Knight and Batman Begins
Josh

After finding out about "Inception," my feelings about who could pick up as The Joker intensified. I always felt that if anyone could pull it off in Ledger's place, it would be Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Dude is a great actor and could pull off the same look. JMHO.
justin

What about scorsese , if the next flick went all mob like and had the penguin as a mob boss , i think scorsese would nail it . he would probably make leo dicaprio robin though so……..I like depp as riddler , fantastick idea .
kamilopoland

Hello to all ! Greetings From Poland ! Very nice website.
Talon

They are gonna have to make him a new batmobile. He trashed the tumbler because oj joker and his semi scene. If they don’t give him a new car then the movie will probably be brought down some, plus some of us are getting sick of the tumbler by the 3rd movie. I think the Batmobile needs to be a little slimmer. Its SO BIG Batman could go fight in iraq with it. If you have any questions on Batman 3 please email me at TalonTrent8@gmail.com
Mr ?

I would like to see the return of the joker in the skin of Joseph Gordon Levitt.
Eternalist

Talon, shut your whore mouth.
Angelus

These reasons are laughable and patheticly simple-minded. Christopher Nolan will create the trilogy, there’s no doubt about that. Only Reason number 8, 6 and 2 are competent. Wayne Enterprises could buy or deliver a militarz Stealth, which would become another Bat-vehicle, that could fly easely between scyscrapers too.
/////////////////// fabio

Tom Berenger is a great actor, he deserve l’oscar from many time, for Me is Very Good a great actor how Tom Berenger in the cast of film “Batman 3″