"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.
― da croupier, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 13:50 (eleven years ago) link
there should be several batmans. they would get more done.
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 13:55 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 13:55 (eleven years ago) link
Nude writer, nude comic.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 14:04 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― da croupier, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 14:08 (eleven years ago) link
bane is like
http://i.imgur.com/u2Zrm.jpg
― dayo, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 14:14 (eleven years ago) link
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..."
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 14:39 (eleven years ago) link
lol
― Neil Young’s social media channels (some dude), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 14:39 (eleven years ago) link
croup's total distaste for the idea of him ever dying is making me bloodthirsty to see a dead Bats
― Neil Young’s social media channels (some dude), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 14:40 (eleven years ago) link
Tom Hardy as violent city masseuse. "You should be more relaxed now!"
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 14:42 (eleven years ago) link
I kind of assume that with all the "WILL HE DIE?" angles in the trailers, there's no way they'll actually kill him.
― mh, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 14:49 (eleven years ago) link
or will they? makes u think
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 14:53 (eleven years ago) link
guy's they're not gonna kill batman
― zubaz fupa (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 14:55 (eleven years ago) link
guys
They're going to kill everyone *but* Batman, and he'll be left looking over the smoldering remains of Gotham thinking, "what now?"
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 14:57 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/70EQ7.jpg
― dayo, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 14:58 (eleven years ago) link
oh DAMN U
― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 14:58 (eleven years ago) link
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
― zubaz fupa (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 15:05 (eleven years ago) link
p much
― catbus otm (gbx), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 15:07 (eleven years ago) link
some people die
Probably Catwoman or Marion Cotillard, because Nolan always kills a woman to give his lead something to angst over.
― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 15:07 (eleven years ago) link
The Dark Knight Incepts
― dayo, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 15:08 (eleven years ago) link
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
― catbus otm (gbx), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 15:09 (eleven years ago) link
there's a physical therapy & training montage,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU9Uwhjlog8
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 15:16 (eleven years ago) link
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
― mh, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 15:23 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 15:25 (eleven years ago) link
^^^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
― goole, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 15:29 (eleven years ago) link
like a convalescence home for batmen?
― mh, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 15:31 (eleven years ago) link
that would be comedy central i think
― goole, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 15:33 (eleven years ago) link
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, 2 May 2012 15:38 (eleven years ago) link
How do you rise with a broken back?
― caro's johnson (Eazy), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 15:46 (eleven years ago) link
Is that one of those "How can you hug your kids with nuclear arms?" deals?
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 15:51 (eleven years ago) link
well if it's broken above s2 u should be cool
― catbus otm (gbx), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 15:52 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52Ce0stbcbU
― omar little, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 15:53 (eleven years ago) link
wait no I got that backwards
― catbus otm (gbx), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 15:53 (eleven years ago) link
― zubaz fupa (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, May 2, 2012 11:38 AM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this sounds great
― max, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 15:54 (eleven years ago) link
Can't forgive the missed opportunity of "a rising dark knight raises all bats." Cancelling my subscription.
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 15:55 (eleven years ago) link
Batman Shrugged
― dayo, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 15:58 (eleven years ago) link
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, May 2, 2012 10:25 AM
^^^ THIS THIS THIS
― improvised explosive advice (WmC), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 16:06 (eleven years ago) link
Batman drops his "no guns" stance, shoots Bane in head with bazooka.
scene.
― mh, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 16:07 (eleven years ago) link
for ex. Singer's "Superman" reboot was totally stupid but at least it wasn't a retread of material
xp
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 16:08 (eleven years ago) link
batman abandons gotham to crime, galt-style, to prove the virtue & necessity of selfishness & vigilantism
― zubaz fupa (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 16:12 (eleven years ago) link
any bets on whether Liam Neeson shows up in this in flashbacks or if he's actually in some part?
― mh, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 16:15 (eleven years ago) link
I honestly didn't mind it. I thought Kevin Spacey was the wrong pick for Lex Luthor.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 16:16 (eleven years ago) link
the baby thing + jesus parallels sorta made me want to stab
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 16:18 (eleven years ago) link
Superman is JEWISH for fuck's sake
My bet on Neeson is flashback.
― improvised explosive advice (WmC), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 16:19 (eleven years ago) link
Unless Nolan goes balls-out and actually brings in the Lazarus Pit to re-introduce Neeson/heal Bruce Wayne after Bane fucks him up.
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 16:22 (eleven years ago) link
Nolan won't bring in anything explicitly magical/unrealistic
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 16:24 (eleven years ago) link
It's actually not a bad idea to let Nolan get real dark before a reboot, considering audiences wound up giving more money to Batman Forever than Batman Returns. Though it depends how dark is dark and how much the next movie is really a "reboot".
― da croupier, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 16:39 (eleven years ago) link