The Dark Knight Rises Nolan...add Robin!!!!!!

[Dr. Crane]

sorry... no robin... won't happen.. people don't go the circus in big cities anymore.... no circus in gotham... no robin in gotham...

 

[Superman-Prime]

I'm a fan of Robin, but personally, I think it's too early to put Robin for the third film. Not right now.

Gordon's hair is not white YET. We need to focus on Batman and the next villiain.

 

[I Am The Knight]

This is my version of a Nightwing suit i drew up.

Tell me what you guys think

It looks almost exactly like the TDK suit

 

[8wid]

What a shame it would be to do another Brokeback Mountain without Heath Ledger, instead starring Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson.

 

[Timstuff]

This has nothing to do with Robin, but you reminded me of something that made me LOL...

 

[Landfill]

there just needs to be a nightwing movie on its own. not necessarily an origin just a new hero. have his past in clips and what not.

 

[Texas Zombie]

I couldn't see batman (nolan) endangering a minor for personal gain or even if it helps gotham. Wait do you think lucias would still work for bats if he puts a kid on the fron't lines?
Robin was a mistake in the last series WB payed for robin. This is an actual line from Forever(may be wrongly phrased) " Holy Batman!!!" Wow campy.

 

[Nathan]

I really can't see Robin in these movies. Even in the comics I think it's strange for Batman to have a kid side-kick, going after extremely dangerous criminals. Someone like Batman should know better, as said above, not to endager a minor.

The only way I could see it work is if he decides to adopt Dick after his parents die, and somehow his cover has been blown and Dick knows Bruce is Batman. He sees himself in Dick and starts to train him, to prepare him for the world, so he'll be able to defend himself. But he never considers to take him on his nightly mission. Every time a discussion even comes up, Bruce should simply blow him off.

Until Dick is completely fed up and just decides to go out, whether Bruce likes it or not. And he should immediately take on the Nightwing persona. No Robin, just straight to Nightwing.

 

[zenith16]

This is my version of a Nightwing suit i drew up.

Tell me what you guys think

hmmmmmm no it's ok but make an armored version of this in this link
http://www.djsyczylo.net/costumes/Nightwing2/Nightwing2.htm as I just put up and it should work out better and make the forarm blades retractable.

I just want to see night wing too. so I don't mind the fast jump to night wing . I rather it go the way of the comic's but darker . but this is becoming the most annoying argument I've ever seen. so it seems a fast jump to Nightwing is an order.

 

[Aracai]

Robin could work, but as a child only. Richard Grayson only, somebody who´s pain reminds Wayne´s own, who he want´s to help. With only a little hint what the outcome will be in a distant future.

But no Robin the boy wonder please!!
It is just stupid even in a comics, where child beats up psychotic killers..just immoral and ethically wrong (in my opinion).

 

[DCnightwing23]

This a another version of the Nightwing suit i designed, its kinda stealthy. I like it, tell me what you guys think.

 

[Texas Zombie]

I'll submit my version. tommarow. although I couldn't see robin(maybe 16 but IDK).
Whoever said not liking robin in the next movie was the minority was clearly wrong.

 

[TimDrake64x]

bruce needs to have a near death experience (maybe be saved by the great doctor thomas elliot?) and bruce and alrfed start to wonder what will happen to batman once bruce is gone, he is too much of a symbol to stop with bruce. bruce and a date( prefferably selina) go to the circus, dick's parents die, bruce addopts dick and tells aflred that this is a war, and he needs recruits.

bruce trains dick to be batman once he is gone, but dick cant wait that long and becomes robin (with a little help from lucius who is kind of a godfather to him). dick goes out as robin without bruce knowing and without permission

 

[JackBauer]

Naysayers should read this. I'd say it sums up the Robin supporters' thoughts pretty well.

 

[metr0man]

luckily for us (Robin-haters), we have CHRISTOPHER NOLAN and CHRISTIAN BALE on our sides. :headbang:

 

[TimDrake64x]

ha gay^

the point isnt who is on who's side. weather dolan puts robin in or not it doesnt matter, he is too big a part of the mythos to leave out. so after the 3rd one, which will probably be nolan's last, i can see robin coming in. its not like he is never going to be another movie ever again. lets just hope that who ever is the director tries to take him seriously and really develope his part

 

[returntovoid]

There's a new Robin in film feature over at IGN.

Here's the link.

http://comics.ign.com/articles/896/896638p1.html

 

[Crook]

The idea at this point is just gonna lead to trouble. I'm an advocate for Robin to return and finally show the MILLIONS of ignorant people the type of character he really is. But not now. Not because it's not the right time (frankly I think it is), but simply put....Nolan is not the man for that job. He's made it abundantly clear he has no intention of using him and it's also clear that he has little to no knowledge on the character.

Why in the world would you want the character to be done on film, taking those 2 very important things into account? That's just ASKING for a disaster.

 

[Nepenthes]

that's a cool link, thanks for posting it returntovoid. I agree with everything except for toning down the costume. "Make it black and grey with maybe some ruby highlights"? WTF? The bright colors are critical. People only disagree when they either don't know enough about Robin, or they're not having an open mind about how it could play in a film. Bright colours can actually be pretty bad arse.


that said Crook is sounding pretty sensible right now. Batman3 probably is too early, and Nolan probably isn't the right guy. That much seems clearer now. But we've still got the other thread for discussing a new Robin trilogy..... in 2014! Let's go!

 

[Saint]

Nolan's unfortunate problem is easily rectified: somebody convinces him, he reads some comics, bam, he's a convert. It would certainly be nice; Nolan is the guy to show the Robin haters what the rest of us see, and I would kill for a well-done Robin on film. Moreover, it's thematically perfect for where TDK left Batman. You could not have a better set-up.

 

[Crook]

While I'll refrain from making any Raimi/SM3/Venom comparisons here, I don't think it's as easy as you make it seem. I get the sense that Nolan already despises the very concept of Robin, and no amount of reading the source material is really ever gonna diminish the hesitance on that idea.

His heart wouldn't be in it.

 

[Nepenthes]

Nolan's unfortunate problem is easily rectified: somebody convinces him, he reads some comics, bam, he's a convert. It would certainly be nice; Nolan is the guy to show the Robin haters what the rest of us see, and I would kill for a well-done Robin on film. Moreover, it's thematically perfect for where TDK left Batman. You could not have a better set-up.

^ yep, and that's the most frustrating thing.

Even if he wanted to do it, the part I think Nolan would struggle with most is the sense of humour and that youthful zeal coming into the whole movie. You can't do Robin and be as dire and earnest as BB or TDK. It needs to be more swashbuckling, if that makes sense. It needs a bit of All-Star actually.

I think you're right on it being thematically appropriate right now, it is, but I also think that maybe a new franchise - a fresh break, a new era, a transition - is perhaps even more perfect and ripe with possibility than where we are now.

 

[Nathan]

I think it's difficult to strike fear into the hearts of criminals, when Gotham's Dark Knight runs around with a boy dressed in red by the name of Robin, who's also known as the boy wonder.

I don't mind introducing Dick Grayson. Have Bruce adopt him and train him. But he doesn't take him with him to beat up crooks. At most he'll let Dick help him in the Batcave. Hack into computers, talk with him over com-link and stuff like that. And by the time he becomes old enough, he should become Nightwing, without Bruce's approval of course.

 

[Texas Zombie]

My opinion is mixed on the subject. If robin were to be realistic I could see a more nightwing type 18 year old robin, but he is far more brutal and stuff still won't kill though.

It really doesn't matter what we think because nolan will most likely have his own opinion on the subject, and choose regardless of what we say.

 

[Nepenthes]

I think it's difficult to strike fear into the hearts of criminals, when Gotham's Dark Knight runs around with a boy dressed in red by the name of Robin, who's also known as the boy wonder.

this is routinely addressed in the comics and you're right, criminals do find it hard to be afraid of Robin. And that's their mistake. They threaten, he launches into flips and roundhouse kicks and laughs while he makes them bleed and whimper. Afterwards they're that much more in awe and confused about him. Maybe criminals like to tell stories of encountering the bat, but no one wants to admit to being humiliated by a young dude in colours who everyone laughs and calls gay. The colours-as-a-distraction argument isn't so silly either, once you allow that Robin should be an 18 year old adult who's made his own informed decision to put himself on the line. If Robin flitters in and out of shadow then all the criminals are looking there while Batman sneaks in behind where he can do the most damage. Inversely, as the public face of the duo Robins colours endear him to cops, doctors, civilians they have to deal with.

And finally the colours are point of symbolic pride. This is the most important thing. Robin isn't just one person, it's a legacy passed down from Grayson who took the colours to celebrate and remember his parents against all the darkness in the world. So changing the colours would be like admitting defeat against tragedy, universally. Robin is a more positive thought. and too proud. it's laughing in the face of adversity. and that's why Jason was a poor Robin, he was too twisted up.