The Dark Knight Will/Should there be a time leap during TDK?

[Joker]

there should be no time lapse...Bruce should be staying at an expensive hotel suite, like he did a few times in the 70's while Wayne Mannor is being rebuilt (finished at the end of the movie), Joker should be just starting out (there's no way Batman would be letting this guy run around for more than a month or so without having met him at least once), and Batman should still be learning the ropes...there should be a special election going on for DA, as the last DA was murdered, with Rachel running against Harvey Dent...the Joker case should be the one that makes Batman have to start being a detective...

 

[ronzpeed]

I think the Joker will be in and out of jail a lot

 

[Sun_Down]

I'm torn here. I think a month or two works best for the Joker/Bats relationship. But I really want to see a more mature Batman, because I loved BB, but frankly, I didn't see "The World's Greatest Detective". I didn't see a man with contingency plans coming out his ears and all that. That progression takes time, but I don't know if we have that kind of time. It could work either way, it could fail either way.

 

[ronzpeed]

In the "Eckhart Speaks" thread, it says that Harvey is already the D.A., hmm...

 

[ChrisBaleBatman]

Didn't it already come out that TDK would take place a year after Batman Begins?

 

[SuperestHero]

He's already Joker by the end of Begins. Joker will be esablished like in Batman #1 and during the course of the film there will be flashbacks of his "origin" ala Killing Joke. Done in the same sorta time sequences and flashbacks as in Begins.

 

[StorminNorman]

there should be no time lapse...Bruce should be staying at an expensive hotel suite, like he did a few times in the 70's while Wayne Mannor is being rebuilt (finished at the end of the movie), Joker should be just starting out (there's no way Batman would be letting this guy run around for more than a month or so without having met him at least once), and Batman should still be learning the ropes...there should be a special election going on for DA, as the last DA was murdered, with Rachel running against Harvey Dent...the Joker case should be the one that makes Batman have to start being a detective...

thats an aspect that I didn't think of - that could cause for a nice little subplot at the start of the movie.

 

[Paste Pot Pete]

Didn't it already come out that TDK would take place a year after Batman Begins?

Did it really? If so, I could definitely dig that.

 

[ChrisBaleBatman]

Yeah, I remember it was reported a while back that it was leaked that TDK would be about a year after Batman Begins.

I imagine by then, the Mansion will have been rebuilt and the Joker might become a myth in the minds of Gothamites "evil killing clown" or some crazy ****.

Or, maybe Batman has been hunting him down for a whole year, and TDK starts off when Batman is starting to get close. That could be a cool way to play up the detective aspect that we got snippets of in Batman Begins.

 

[Boom]

I could've sworn Nolan said something along the lines of TDK picking up right after BB.

 

[kenellard]

I like the idea of it taking Bats a few months to even try to comprehend what he's dealing with. He's still pretty much a rookie and it would also show just how different Joker's MO is from R'as etc. in Begins, where everything seemed to be wrapped up very quickly. a few lines near the beginning between Bruce and Alfred where he doubts his ability to protect Gotham from the Joker would be great IMO

 

[ronzpeed]

Didn't it already come out that TDK would take place a year after Batman Begins?

I could've sworn Nolan said something along the lines of TDK picking up right after BB.

Aarrgh, which one is it?

 

[raybia]

^ Eh, I don't know what would be so exciting about watching them finish up the batcave.

Obviously you have never watched intensively sweaty construction workers at in action.

 

[Arkard]

Well we really dont know how much time passed between the ME accident and the rooftop scene. You know promotions in the police department dont go THAT smoothly, they have to go through some departments, a guy has to do a background check. Even in a place corrupted as the Gotham PD.. sorry, especially in such a place, getting high ranked must take time.
And Gordon did say they STILL didnt pick up Crane. To me, that is an indication that time has already passed. So even if TDK follows Begins directly... it still could be a few weeks after the ME accident.

 

[raybia]

Well we really dont know how much time passed between the ME accident and the rooftop scene. You know promotions in the police department dont go THAT smoothly, they have to go through some departments, a guy has to do a background check. Even in a place corrupted as the Gotham PD.. sorry, especially in such a place, getting high ranked must take time.
And Gordon did say they STILL didnt pick up Crane. To me, that is an indication that time has already passed. So even if TDK follows Begins directly... it still could be a few weeks after the ME accident.

Thats a going point. That could have been a couple of months from the climax.

I think TDK should open up with a 4 to 5 month time frame with a flashback scene of Batman's first encounter with the Joker, who he failed to apprehend.

 

[Arkard]

I think it could have been about a month.

 

[ghost_x]

I'm pretty sure I read it was continuing where Begins finished. I would however like to see the progression of the batcave and bruce's own inventory, we should see how much more serious bruce gets into the crime fighting gig, and watch how it slowly consumes his time. Maybe showing how he has little time for rachel.

I also reckon it will take more than a year to rebuild that whole mansion

 

[raybia]

Does anyone know the timespan between Star Wars and Empire? I see some similarities between Bruce and Luke here.

 

[kenellard]

The whole "I never thanked you" thing suggests that not much time has passed at all, unless we assume Bats and gordon haven't met since the climax of BB

 

[chosen1]

Yeah without a time leap there is probably going to be slim to none as far as new tools and vehicles. He'll have that same grapple gun that I wouldnt mind getting updated along w/ the other tools.

 

[R_Hythlodeus]

Does anyone know the timespan between Star Wars and Empire? I see some similarities between Bruce and Luke here.

three years, as far as I know

 

[Batman2k7]

no cos you find out that the joker is gonna be in TDK so i dont see why Batman would wait a while and then go and stop him when the joker is probably like killing people and stuff

 

[ghost_x]

It could take batman months to even come close to finding the joker. This is not the type of movie in which batman finds a toe nail and says 'got it! he's hiding in the cave!'. We may be coming into this movie months later after batman has been deep into the investigation of the joker.

 

[chosen1]

For all we know the time jump could've already happened in batman begins. From the time alfred and bruce were rumaging through the burnt mansion to that quick clip of the batsignal w/ gordon and batman talking.

Now that I think about it that WAS the Jump. He did'nt all of a sudden have a batsignal in two days. Gordon says. We STILL have'nt caught crane or half the inmates of gotham.

So I'm guessing it was at most a 3 month jump

 

[Dark Sentinel]

We already know that there's a time gap between BB and TDK. That much is a given. How much time is the question; i'd prefer about 4-6 months between the films, but with those new "tie-in" novels that fill in the space between i don't think that's going to be the case. There should be practically NO gap between TDK and BB3. I wrote a fan script a while back called Batman: Duality which was based on what i wanted the 3rd film to be and I opened the movie with Bruce and Gordon sitting by Harvey's hospital bed the night after he was scarred by Joker. I like time gaps when theyre necessary or when they add a certain gravitas to the story, but other than that i'm not huge on them.