Come anticipate "The Dark Knight Rises" with *BATSPOILERS*

maybe JG-L is just like his character in Inception where he doesn't really do much of anything but Nolan wrote him a part because he wanted him in the ensemble

He's be tossed around by Bane in zero gravity.

I thought about this too; if Gordon-Levitt is supposed to be a version of Dick Grayson/Nightwing, maybe the movie will end with Bruce Wayne dying/becoming paralyzed and Gordon-Levitt's character becoming the new Batman, just like they did with Dick Grayson in the recent "Batman RIP" comic book storyline. (IIRC, didn't Dick become Batman for a while in the original Bane story arc too, after Bane broke Bruce's back?) That way they could do both the "Bruce Wayne sacrifices everything" story and end the movie on a hopeful note, as well as set things up for the future Batman movies.

this is pretty much what everyone seems to be saying.

i suppose ultimately only one gravelly voice can prevail.

short of something that played out the whole Grayson/Nightwing arc over a couple movies (and even that would have to be done really well to work), the idea of a Batman movie with someone other than Bruce Wayne under the mask can fuck off imo

Reboot, remember?

Re boot

you know who they should make Batman, is Alfred

i was responding to garda/tuomas's scenario, though (xpost)

"fine, we'll let you break batman's back, but you have to offer a new hero at the end while we scream from the rooftops that a reboot is imminent." if it wasn't DC/Warner Bros I'd never believe a studio would follow their biggest hit ever with a sequel that depressing and irrelevant.

there should be several batmans. they would get more done.

There is no way Gordon-Levitt becomes Batman. I wouldn't be surprised if he were either a) turned into a villain or b) killed in this.

I do respect Nolan for apparently stopping the trickle of trailers after this one. No more hints a la "Prometheus"(until some stupid site spoils it for everyone).

Per reboots, at least that trend makes sense in the context of comic book movies. Comics are rebooting all the time. It's not like the reboot of "Friday the 13th" or whatever, totally gratuitous. Comic movie reboots are in keeping with a proud tradition: new artist/writer, new comic.

Nude writer, nude comic.

hope nolan's/dc's bright enough to know finality doesn't necessarily mean offing the lead so much as completing an arc. Bale can just be like "ah, a job well done, time for a nap" after putting Gotham in a happy place. Batman doesn't have to announce his retirement or turn into a franchise or anything. And then they don't have to go to great lengths to say Justice League Batman 2014 has absolutely nothing to do with the dead/retired batman you saw two years ago.

bane is like

http://i.imgur.com/u2Zrm.jpg

Bale can just be like "ah, a job well done, time for a nap" after putting Gotham in a happy place.

Read that as 'Bane' initially and was all "Well that's one way to look at it..."

lol

croup's total distaste for the idea of him ever dying is making me bloodthirsty to see a dead Bats

Tom Hardy as violent city masseuse. "You should be more relaxed now!"

I kind of assume that with all the "WILL HE DIE?" angles in the trailers, there's no way they'll actually kill him.

or will they? makes u think

guy's they're not gonna kill batman

guys

They're going to kill everyone *but* Batman, and he'll be left looking over the smoldering remains of Gotham thinking, "what now?"

http://i.imgur.com/70EQ7.jpg

oh DAMN U

bane will fuck batman up and throw him in a well, then batman will mope in a wheelchair while gotham cries out "why hath the batman forsaken us?," catwoman and JGL search for sad beardo bruce wayne, find him, there's a physical therapy & training montage, some people die, batman lives on with ETERNAL GUILT

p much

some people die

Probably Catwoman or Marion Cotillard, because Nolan always kills a woman to give his lead something to angst over.

The Dark Knight Incepts

wouldn't be surprised if they did something kinda like the end of the dark knight returns, though, with bats and/or wayne appearing to die

there's a physical therapy & training montage,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU9Uwhjlog8

Marion Cotillard is gonna be the villain, cozy up to Bruce Wayne and then BAM he wakes up with Bane throwing him in a pit

Comic movie reboots are in keeping with a proud tradition: new artist/writer, new comic.

I totally don't have a problem with this. I do have a problem with telling the same origin story over and over.

bane will fuck batman up and throw him in a well, then batman will mope in a wheelchair while gotham cries out "why hath the batman forsaken us?," catwoman and JGL search for sad beardo bruce wayne, find him, there's a physical therapy & training montage, some people die, batman lives on with ETERNAL GUILT

^^^also this

the first two movies made a big deal about how physically punishing the batman line of work is, i wonder if the third won't go to something permanent

like a convalescence home for batmen?

that would be comedy central i think

batman gets broken back, wayne corps develops groundbreaking medical appliances, gotham's economy is revived by the growth of its biotech & manufacturing sectors, crime goes down. a rising dark knight raises all boats.

How do you rise with a broken back?

Is that one of those "How can you hug your kids with nuclear arms?" deals?

well if it's broken above s2 u should be cool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52Ce0stbcbU

wait no I got that backwards

batman gets broken back, wayne corps develops groundbreaking medical appliances, gotham's economy is revived by the growth of its biotech & manufacturing sectors, crime goes down. a rising dark knight raises all boats.

― zubaz fupa (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, May 2, 2012 11:38 AM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this sounds great

Can't forgive the missed opportunity of "a rising dark knight raises all bats." Cancelling my subscription.

batman gets broken back, wayne corps develops groundbreaking medical appliances, gotham's economy is revived by the growth of its biotech & manufacturing sectors, crime goes down. a rising dark knight raises all boats.

― zubaz fupa (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, May 2, 2012 11:38 AM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Batman Shrugged

I totally don't have a problem with this. I do have a problem with telling the same origin story over and over.

― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, May 2, 2012 10:25 AM

^^^ THIS THIS THIS

Batman drops his "no guns" stance, shoots Bane in head with bazooka.

scene.

for ex. Singer's "Superman" reboot was totally stupid but at least it wasn't a retread of material

xp

batman abandons gotham to crime, galt-style, to prove the virtue & necessity of selfishness & vigilantism