With Inception now firmly dominating the box office charts right across the planet, it’s inevitable that we’re looking firmly in the direction of Christopher Nolan now to get cracking on his third and final Batman adventure.

Nolan, who hasn’t officially signed up for The Dark Knight follow-up from what we can tell, is certain to direct the film, which is set to go before the cameras in March or April of next year.

Currently, the wise money is on Joseph Gordon-Levitt to play The Riddler in the film (Jackson Rathbone has said that he’d like to play the role, but we don’t see that happening), although recent rumours have suggested that Selina Kyle aka Catwoman might be making an appearance. Tilda Swinton remains our favoured choice for the role should that happen. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s coming again in your way, the Warner Bros. are set to come out with their next film on the Batman Series and as usual it will be directed by Memento helmer Chris Nolan.

Deadline’s Nikki Finke reports that Chris Nolan’s Brother Jonathan Nolan and ABC’s Flash Forward’s show runner David Goyer is all set to pen the script for Batman 3. David Goyer has previously scripted Batman Begins along with Jonathan Nolan and also wrote the story for the last Batman film “The Dark Knight”.

Deadline also reports that David Goyer has left the ABC’s Flash Forward to pen down the Batman script. Deadline also quoted a statement from David Goyer stating: “As my feature projects have started ramping up again, I felt I was being pulled in too many directions. I’m proud of ["FlashForward"] and excited about the re-launch. It’s in great hands.”

The Batman series kick started by Nolan earned $US 1.5 Billion in total for the last two movies. The last installment “The Dark Knight” won two academy awards for Best Sound Editing and Best Supporting Actor for Heath Ledger.

Chris Nolan is a busy man this year as his latest flick Inception is all set to release on 16th July and has an electrifying star cast that includes the likes of Leonardo De Caprio, Ken Watanbe, Marion Cotillard , Ellen Page, Tom Berenger and Joseph-Gordon Levitt of 500 Day of Summer fame.

Source: Entertainment & ShowBiz

Batman’s faithful butler, Alfred, has dropped bad news … again.

Batman fans everywhere have been furiously blogging and discussing the twists and turns in the will-they-or-won’t-they debate over a third installment of Christopher Nolan’s revamped Batman franchise. Early on it was announced that, although lead actor Christian Bale was contractually obligated to appear in Batman 3, Nolan had no such obligation and might decide not to direct another one.

Screenwriter David S. Goyer gave fans some hope when he said that he believed Nolan would return if he could “find the story that he’s happy with.” Then, Gary Oldman got everyone excited when he announced that filming would begin in 2010, only to recant his statement a couple days later. Read the rest of this entry »

Ever since Michael Caine infamously name-checked Johnny Depp and Philip Seymour Hoffman as potential cast members for the next “Batman” movie, he’s been on notice. According to Caine, who’s currently making the rounds promoting his upcoming film “Harry Brown,” he hasn’t been on the receiving end of any details regarding Christopher Nolan’s next foray in the Bat-universe… but that doesn’t mean he isn’t interested in where the franchise goes next.

MTV Movies Editor Joshua Horowitz caught up with Caine during the Toronto International Film Festival (where the “news” first got started last year) to pick his brain about the next “Batman” movie and joke about the scoop that rocked the ‘Net.

“There is nobody, there’s no script, there’s nothing,” Caine told MTV News of the status of the next “Batman” movie. “It can’t possibly be made before 2011 because ‘Inception’ is such a big picture.”

“[They] won’t tell me anything because I said this before,” laughed Caine of the no-tell policy surrounding him after last year’s Depp/Hoffman story. Nevertheless, Caine offered this bit of “news”—before admitting that it could be wrong, and he’d be in trouble all over again.

“Johnny Depp is great in anything, but there is no Johnny Depp in this Batman,” he smiled. “They tell me in no uncertain terms.”

Source: MTV News

Aaron Eckhart has launched a new bid to convince director Christopher Nolan to revive Batman comic book character Two-face for the sequel to The Dark Knight.

The actor, who portrayed Harvey Dent and his alter ego Two-Face, saw his character appear to be killed off in the 2008 blockbuster, and assumed he would not be a part of any future movie installments.

But Eckhart is now appealing to Nolan to consider bringing Two-Face back from the dead – mimicking a popular technique used on dramatic TV soap operas.

He says, “I think I’ve talked myself out of the job. I thought I’d died. But you know, America’s grown up on soap operas and reinventing people so why doesn’t Chris take that into consideration (when he’s writing the script)?” Read the rest of this entry »

The THIRD chapter of Christopher Nolan’s Caped Crusader’s saga could very well be FULLY shot in IMAX, not IMAX Digital – but the beautiful, stunning IMAX that we saw pieces of THE DARK KNIGHT in.

Now this is something that I’m sure a lot of you will feel is a no-brainer. Nolan blew us away with the IMAX sequences in that film – but it was a very tough process to work in. Mainly due to the limitations of how many available real IMAX rigs there are. Not only that, but lenses had to be created, adapted and god forbid one broke down. Part of the reason that Nolan went forward with INCEPTION first – besides taking a creative break from the cape and cowl adventures… was possibly to create a few new IMAX cameras made to his specs. Once again – the cost of shooting an entire feature film on IMAX… the stock, the time it takes to reset, to load, to move the cameras… Well… it is daunting, but as Nolan proved with DARK KNIGHT – the difference is stunning.

Source: Ain’t It Cool News

The Dark Knight director drops out of The Prisoner to focus on the next installment in the Batman Begins reboot franchise.
Did I get your attention? Good. Now, before you get too excited, let me clarify…

While there has been no official studio announcement that director Christopher Nolan will return for a third installment of the new Batman franchise. A recent announcement purports that Nolan is leaving the production of The Prisoner to focus on development of the next Batman film.

Back in June, actor Christian Bale lamented that he is obligated to appear as Bruce Wayne/Batman in a third Batman movie, but that Nolan had no such contract stipulation to direct.

“I truly don’t know that we’re ever going to see another Batman movie. It would be purely that (Nolan) would need to find a story that was good enough and if he couldn’t find that it wouldn’t happen.”

Bale went on to say that he didn’t want to consider playing Batman without Nolan at the helm.

“I don’t even want to think about that. I don’t know if there will be a third.”

Source: Comic Book Movie

They (Gary Oldman and the fine folks at Warner Bros.) just announced at Comic Con that Batman 3 will begin shooting in 2010. We don’t know who will be behind the lens (Nolan’s looking pretty booked), who the villain will be, what the title will be, or if it’ll be the further evolution of a smarter look at Batman or if dollar signs rule the day.

I really like the first two films. I have many gripes about them but I really like them and have no problems seeing many more of them (especially if Jackie Earle Haley gives Bale voice lessons) but I have grown very weary of the whole “announce the next film” thing without letting people know that the intentions are pure. Hold the announcement until you have some SUBSTANCE to share. A title. Word that your director is either Nolan or someone else audiences can trust. Showcase that you’ve learned from past mistakes.

Also, the third film in a franchise is a really pivotal thing. Especially when the second film is the second highest grossing film in the history of skin.

Anyhow, there’s your news. More Batman on the way. I really hope they don’t make it villain-centric.

Source: CHUD

When I got the chance to visit with David Goyer and Jonathan Nolan a year ago, one of the things I heard them tell us media folk was that they had to lobby and “convince” Chris Nolan to do THE DARK KNIGHT and they’d probably have to do the same thing for there to be a Nolan-helmed BATMAN 3.
Maybe the sale-job on Chris for a third BATMAN is going to be a really tough one this time.

Despite the fact that BOF has had some unofficial assurances that Chris would indeed return and direct a third BATMAN, industry scuttlebutt says – and has been saying – differently. Read the rest of this entry »

With all eyes on Hugh Jackman’s upcoming “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” debut this week, it’s easy to forget about one comic book icon that has already proved his weight in box office gold. Christian Bale, Jackman’s co-star in “The Prestige,” kicked clown-faced butt and accepted loads of moviegoers’ hard-earned cash in last summer’s “The Dark Knight” — but does the on-screen Bruce Wayne have a third “Batman” left in him?

“It’s got to be the right story,” Bale told TotalFilm. “You can’t make something like ‘The Dark Knight’ and then come out with something disappointing.” Read the rest of this entry »