The Dark Knight Will Batman have been investigating The Joker?

[The Guard]

Watching BATMAN BEGINS the other night, I got to wondering. At the end of the movie, presented with the Joker card, Batman tells Gordon "I'll look into it". Do you think THE DARK KNIGHT will open with Batman having been looking into The Joker? Small issue, but I was curious.

 

[The Joker]

I sincerely hope so.

From what we've seen, Joker and his men are pulling off robberies in this one, like the bank job. So, hopefully Batman's investigations will lead him to his first confrontation with the Joker.

I also hope Batman states to Gordon that despite all his investigations, he has no idea who the Joker really is.

 

[sasquatchs]

I've had this picture in my mind since seeing Begins of an opening with Batman chasing down a low-level thug with ties to the Joker. Maybe some item on on his person that inches him along the trail, a phone number, a credit card, etc. I imagine Batman's tied Joker to a few unattributed crimes, but nothing more. No closer to finding out his identity or past.

 

[itsthebatman]

Allow for maybe a month to have elapsed between the end of Begins, and the start of TDK. First scene in BB could be Bats taking down Scarecrow, then Bruce has to get to a Wayne Foundation party, at which the capture of Scarecrow is discussed by the partygoers, and contrasted with GCPD and Batman's unsuccessful attempts to capture 'this Joker fellow'. Then a scene in the Batcave with Bruce poring over newspaper reports from the Joker's crimes, trying to figure out hwat he'll do next. Something like that anyway. Establish he's still on the loose, and still relatively unknown.

 

[BobJM]

ooooooo, I like that.

 

[ROBOCOP CPU001]

I would love to see pictures from crime scenes in the cave, in a forensics area, even pictures of the joker, mug shots, evidence he has collected, I would still like Batman to be an urban legend at this point, so the news papers don't know Batman is on the case.

.

 

[Carmine Falcone]

First scene in BB could be Bats taking down Scarecrow

 

[itsthebatman]

Explain. With diagrams.

 

[Carmine Falcone]

Explain. With diagrams.

So many people have been saying that batman should take this/that down in the opening scene that i'm sincerely hoping it will not be the case.

 

[Two-Face]

I would love to see pictures from crime scenes in the cave, in a forensics area, even pictures of the joker, mug shots, evidence he has collected, I would still like Batman to be an urban legend at this point, so the news papers don't know Batman is on the case.

.

That's great stuff.

 

[ROBOCOP CPU001]

That's great stuff.

Just classic Batman, things that the Movies seem to keep forgetting.

 

[itsthebatman]

So many people have been saying that batman should take this/that down in the opening scene that i'm sincerely hoping it will not be the case.

Just cos it's popular doesn't make it bad. It would be a nod to the Bond movies that Nolan seeks to emulate.

 

[Carmine Falcone]

Just cos it's popular doesn't make it bad. It would be a nod to the Bond movies that Nolan seeks to emulate.

True, but that's the only villain cameo most people here can think of.

 

[itsthebatman]

True, but that's the only villain cameo most people here can think of.

It's just that it makes sense in light of Crane still being on the loose at the end of BB. Hell, they could make it Freeze, Firefly, Deadshot and it would still rock, but the audeince would be going 'WTF?'

 

[COMPO]

I thought it'd be good if it started with the batsignal. it's reflected in puddle. someone runs over the puddle ripples. A sahdow of a bat jumps to a building. A terrified thug runs down an alleyway in the rain. Then, BOOM! Btaman appeares interrogates him and then, goes off to Gordon with nothingbecause no one knows anything.

 

[Kleric]

I would like it to be Crane. It ties up a dangling plot thread from Begins. I think it is a superior choice to just not mentioning him at all. Otherwise I would suspect that Crane has a role to play in the larger story. As many have mentioned perhaps he has a hand in creating a Joker Venom type of concoction.

 

[ROBOCOP CPU001]

I would also like to see the frustration in batman and Bruce.. you know hes been up for days looking for Joker, to know avail..then he hears of the Bank robbery on a scanner.

 

[Schlosser85]

Isn't the first scene supposed to be The Joker robbing a bank?

 

[The Kid]

Well i don't think he lied about looking into it. lol. He'll be looking into it unless he was just bs-ing with gordon.

 

[itsthebatman]

Well i don't think he lied about looking into it. lol. He'll be looking into it unless he was just bs-ing with gordon.

Didn't you know? Bats loves taking the piss out of Gordon.
'I'll look into it.'
Yeah, right.
He glides off the edge of the building, throws the card away, and goes out for the night with three sexy ladies. Then the following night on the rooftop.
Gordon: 'Any leads on this Joker fellow?'
Batman: 'What?... Oh, right. Not yet. He's a slippery guy to catch. I'll, um, continue looking into it'. While thinking all the time 'Gordon, you sap, catch him yourself. I couldn't be bothered'.

 

[wikum]

people act like batman has never investigated the joker on film before. do you not remember batman 89? i understand people wanting more detective work from this batman and i'm not trying to compare begins to b89, however i don't want this to turn into batman does csi.

 

[itsthebatman]

people act like batman has never investigated the joker on film before. do you not remember batman 89? i understand people wanting more detective work from this batman and i'm not trying to compare begins to b89, however i don't want this to turn into batman does csi.

Is that the sequel to Debbie Does Dallas?

 

[wikum]

Is that the sequel to Debbie Does Dallas?

quite possibly.t:

 

[sasquatchs]

The difference this time is no-one knows who the Joker is, Wayne just had to ask Alfred to get the files in B89. Hmmm, high intelligence, unstable, aptitudes include science and chemistry. End of detection. The other thing is that Joker went fruity and immediately he's running all the crime in Gotham, whereas in TDK he'll probably be more of an independent professional criminal/terrorist, with no legitimacy in the underworld

 

[wikum]

@ sasquatchs - yea that pretty much proves you right.

all i am saying is i don't want them to go over the top with the detective side, just from bowing to fanboy pressure. get the mixture of the character right.