The Dark Knight Rises Empire's Exclusive Interview: Nolan "What Next?"

[Heisenberg]

WHAT NEXT? (BATMAN 3/SUPERMAN REBOOT etc.)

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Their 8-page Inception special and their 4-page special in the edit suite with Christopher Nolan can also be found in the Inception thread here and here

 

[firstclassclown]

You're a little late. This has already been posted.

 

[firstclassclown]

http://forums.superherohype.com/showthread.php?t=327417&page=50

 

[El Payaso]

Good article, thanks.

It makes me so happy Nolan's not mixing heroes in the movies. What a relief.

 

[Timstuff]

Good article, thanks.

It makes me so happy Nolan's not mixing heroes in the movies. What a relief.

While I have been and continue to be a large proponent of the notion that a Justice League movie should be a crossover between the versions of the big 5 that exist in their own movies, I don't want to see DC copying Marvel where there's tons of overlap in the individual films, so I appreciate the approach Nolan is taking. In Nolan's Batman movies, you do not have to know anything about Batman or the DC universe to get what's going on. Unfortunately though, in The Incredible Hulk, if you didn't watch Iron Man then you'd have no idea who Tony Stark is or why he shows up at the end, and the appearances of Nick Fury and Black Widow in Iron Man 2 come across as a bit contrived, like you're watching bits of another movie within Iron Man 2.

Nolan is approaching Batman and Superman with the mindset of "don't get hung up Green Lantern, Flash, Wonder Woman, or any other character except the ones who are directly a part of Superman's story." Hopefully, this does not rule out the possibility of a crossover in the future, though, as long as that film is self-contained and does not overlap into the standalone films. Batman's movies are about Batman and his supporting cast only, and Superman's movies are about Superman and his supporting cast only. If there's going to be any crossover, it should only happen within a crossover film. The very most I would want to see outside of that is little easter eggs like the (very well hidden) Gotham City reference in Superman Returns, where unless you know it's there you probably won't even notice.

 

[ultimatefan]

Interesting article, shows that Nolan understand the difference between Supes and Bats.

 

[Asteroid-Man]

I hope he brings back Two-Face, cause the only reason he didn't before was that he wanted the Joker to come back.

 

[General Vulcun]

I hope he brings back Two-Face, cause the only reason he didn't before was that he wanted the Joker to come back.

Harvey Dent/Two-Face is dead.

 

[Asteroid-Man]

Yeah and the Joker was supposed to come back. Things change.

 

[Two-Face]

Much as I want Two-Face to return and I enjoy watching Eckhart's take on the role but dude he fell and he hit his head. How would Gordon try to keep him quite?

 

[General Vulcun]

Bringing back a character who was captured is different from bringing back a character who died. The Joker was captured and not killed, he could easily come back in any capacity in B3, or he could just stay in Arkham and not be apart of the story at all. How are you going to bring Two-Face back to life? Sure, you can use the Lazarus Pit, but that would involve bringing back Ra's and/or introducing Talia into the script just so you can do it. So if you want bring Two-Face back you're infact bringing back 2 characters and possibly introducing a 3rd just for this purpose. But why would Nolan dig up characters that died when the threads left hanging from TDK, in terms of the state of Gotham and Batman's role, leave tons of possibilities to go about without bringing back dead characters? I want to see Batman deal with his new role in Gotham and the escalation of freaks and vigilantes without resorting to bringing Two-Face back from the dead in order to clear Batman's name. It would feel out of place with what Nolan has done with the story so far, and would feel like a cheat to me rather than having the story unfold organically.

 

[Travesty]

The one thing that confuses me about all of this is Nolan says he always works on one film at a time, because he likes to put all his energy in one project, but then he's supposed to be working on both Batman and Superman, which both come out in 2012. Hmmmmm.....

 

[Sharkboy]

Yeah and the Joker was supposed to come back. Things change.

Change so much as to bring back an obviously dead person (he died on screen for god sake) for the third film, I don't think so, get over it, No joker, no Two Face.

 

[Blitzkrieg Bop]

It states specifically in the script Harvey is dead. And when Eckhart asked Nolan about it, he said he he was dead.