Nolan and Bale both have said their be done with Batman after DKR, and WB has basically said they'd be rebooting Batman after the "Dark Knight Trilogy" ends.
Here's where I want to just say what I think the reboot should be like.
Strike a happy medium in tone. I think the best way to put this would be to say they should go somewhere around where Paul Dini normally treads (in the old Animated Series, in the Arkham games, in his run on Detective Comics...): Dark, mature and complex, yes, but certainly not without humor and some loopy stuff here and there.
Don't dwell on the origin too much, and don't make it a case of being "Batman's first adventure" Every person in the free world knows it by now. Instead, make the majority of the story take place some time early in Batman's career (pre-Robin), where he's already a established presence in Gotham, and has already fought many (but not all) of his rogue's gallery. Stop assuming that everybody is an idiot that needs to have stuff explained to him, I know plenty of people who didn't see Batman Begins but who watched and enjoyed The Dark Knight, so I see no reason why having Batman reboot straight into a world where he's already Batman couldn't.
Make the opponent an honest-to-goodness Supervillain with Super-powers. What better way to differentiate any reboot from Nolan then to do this? And the thing is, Batman's superpowered villains have never been done justice in live action. Poison Ivy was made into a caricature in Batman&Robin and folks like Clayface, Croc and Man-Bat have never even shown up.
Hint at the Joker, but don't bring him back yet.
Hint at how horrible this universe's version of the Joker is, but don't actually bring him in yet. Heath is still too fresh in everyone's mind. But, what if, for example, at the end Batman is bringing somebody into Arkham, and, in the distance, you can hear laughter echoing down the hallways.
Prepare for Robin. Don't bring him in in the first movie, or even the second, but eventually, bring in Robin. It's his time to return, and there has to be a teenage actor somewhere that can do well.
Prepare for crossover. Eventually, WB will want to do a JLA movie, so make it so that the next version of Batman wouldn't look out of place hanging with Superman and the others.
Here's where I want to just say what I think the reboot should be like.
Strike a happy medium in tone. I think the best way to put this would be to say they should go somewhere around where Paul Dini normally treads (in the old Animated Series, in the Arkham games, in his run on Detective Comics...): Dark, mature and complex, yes, but certainly not without humor and some loopy stuff here and there.
Don't dwell on the origin too much, and don't make it a case of being "Batman's first adventure" Every person in the free world knows it by now. Instead, make the majority of the story take place some time early in Batman's career (pre-Robin), where he's already a established presence in Gotham, and has already fought many (but not all) of his rogue's gallery. Stop assuming that everybody is an idiot that needs to have stuff explained to him, I know plenty of people who didn't see Batman Begins but who watched and enjoyed The Dark Knight, so I see no reason why having Batman reboot straight into a world where he's already Batman couldn't.
Make the opponent an honest-to-goodness Supervillain with Super-powers. What better way to differentiate any reboot from Nolan then to do this? And the thing is, Batman's superpowered villains have never been done justice in live action. Poison Ivy was made into a caricature in Batman&Robin and folks like Clayface, Croc and Man-Bat have never even shown up.
Hint at the Joker, but don't bring him back yet.
Hint at how horrible this universe's version of the Joker is, but don't actually bring him in yet. Heath is still too fresh in everyone's mind. But, what if, for example, at the end Batman is bringing somebody into Arkham, and, in the distance, you can hear laughter echoing down the hallways.
Prepare for Robin. Don't bring him in in the first movie, or even the second, but eventually, bring in Robin. It's his time to return, and there has to be a teenage actor somewhere that can do well.
Prepare for crossover. Eventually, WB will want to do a JLA movie, so make it so that the next version of Batman wouldn't look out of place hanging with Superman and the others.
Seriously, I think Robin's such a ***** that he needs an origin story like that. And give us the sexed-up Vicki Vale, like Chase Meridian on steroids. 
