What Comes After The Dark Knight Rises?

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What Comes After <i>The Dark Knight Rises</i>?  

By now, chances are you’ve seen The Dark Knight Rises, Christopher Nolan’s final chapter in his Batman trilogy. But… was it enough for you, or would you like to see more, somehow?

First off, go into the comments of this post at your own risk. Who knows what will be revealed there.

More importantly: Without ruining the movie, The Dark Knight Rises may finish up Nolan’s tenure in Gotham, but there are enough hanging threads, interesting characters and hints of what could happen next for there to be spin-offs or follow-ups telling the tales of characters not called Bruce Wayne in the world that Nolan and his co-conspirators created. The question is… Would you actually want that to happen?

Nolan’s Batman trilogy is an accomplishment, there’s no doubt about that. But is it enough of one that you’d rather Warners and DC let the Batman franchise rest for awhile? Would you rather see the further adventures of some of the supporting characters from the series? Or are you ready for a reboot already? Share your choice in the poll below, and feel free to expound in the comments. Just… don’t ruin the movie for people who haven’t seen it yet, please…?

 

  • Jpgeekart

    I would wanna see which direction they are taking for the rest of the DC franchise. If they plan to do a JLA soon then I would hope that they can take the Nolan Batman in soon.If not you may want to wait until the other stories develop.
    Still, a new Batman based maybe on the Batman Beyond series, or maybe even the the Batman: Arkam City series would be nice too.

  • Mr_Wayne

    Don’t touch the Nolan world. Let that be apart of the big screen Multiverse. The next Batman film should explore a more modern interpretation of Richard Grayson becoming Robin. An interpretation of ‘Dark Victory’.

  • Mark

    Next Trilogy will begin with “The Dark Knight Lives”. Enter Robin, Zsasz, Hush, and The Penguin. It will be a darker tale that will make Batman have no choice but to return. 

  • Zor-El of Argo

    Which era of the mythos? The Kane/Finger era? The O’Neil/Adams era? There is a lot of comic book versions of Batman to take inspiration from. Nolan’s vision was no less valid than Frank Miller’s or Doug Moench’s or anyone elses.

  • Zor-El of Argo

    I think Justice League should go the opposite direction of Avengers. Let Superman be the only lead-in and use the movie as jumping-off points for other DC movies.

    Personally, I would start with Ryan Reynalds’ dieing a horrible death while utterly failing to defend Earth from some threat. The rest of Earth’ heroes step-up to finish what Hal started and are eventually joined by Earth’s new Green Lantern, John Stewart. Any suggestions on who should play John?

  • Lieutenant Non

    Reboot

  • Jasontodd3

      I want Robin, the teen
    titans, Batgirl, vixen, the Black-canary, and huntress. i could do with
    about thirty min. of batman, and the rest, all about the sidekicks. all
    of whom have been written darker than nolan could ever do. -nolan sucks.
    i refused to watch this one, after he said no sidekicks. nolan fails. -
    also agree with no more origins films. we know who batman is, and why
    he is. we don’t need to be spoon fed yet another origin story, unless it
    only takes about five min, as a small flashback scene. the rest needs
    to be present day, and clayface, and hush would be excellent villains.

  • Moonadept

    i’d love a “Catwoman” movie, though more realistically, a movie with Blake being Robin/Nightwing/New Batman. You could even have Bale back as Batman Beyond-esque Wayne.
    Otherwise a reboot a-la “Avengers” with a BAtman that would be in a new Justice League movie would make sense.    

  • Michael McDonnell

    A new Batman Tv show would be nice.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000142354130 Virginia Keating

    Leave it as is.  If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. 

  • RicardoNuno818

    I’d love to see another batman movie and a justice leage movie wouldn’t hurt maybe adding catwomen if that’s not asking to much

  • Jeffvieira

    Not everybody likes the Bale gravel voice Batman. There are things I appreciate about it, but for entertainment I prefer to watch the Tim Burton movies. I like BB, wasn’t into TDK and don’t put much priority on seeing TDKR. It’s just personal preference. I’d like to see a reboot with a different take, something less reality based. Good for Nolan for creating something so many people obviously like, but the characters existed before him so there’s no reason their stories shouldn’t be retold by someone else. 

  • Dafandag

    I’d is going to be a very, very tough act to follow, but the next Batman movie needs to be a reboot with a story that creates a JLA movie friendly Batman.  DC needs to look at what Marvel did and do what everyone does in Hollywood when something is successful…copy it.  Nolan’s movies were great, but it was Nolan’s version of Batman and let’s not diminish it by going forward with the world he created without him.

  • Captlobi

    More Movies.

  • hijodeerebo

    I think that the nolan trilogy were the best, cause its more realistic and it makes you feel that is not much as a science fiction movie, thou it is, i loved that nobody calls selina kyle cat woman but i was pretty obvious, maybe one movie with blake but nor as robin but nightwing, and cat woman, gotham has too many enemies, i dont like the end, and i enjoy batman kicking bane’s ass , but it was to obvious the turn, i didnt like the end, bane was brutal, tom hardy was a brawler and he did a perfect bane

  • CRG

    I’m just glad this hack’s reign over this beloved character is over.

  • CapivarUmanis

    I want to see a movie Superman/Batman instead a Justice League movie

  • Patrick

    I’d love to see more of the characters left at the end of the film. It seems foolish to reboot a pretty successful series, especially with enough plot threads left hanging to carry on.

  • Duskknight45

    I would definitely be open to seeing more movies following the supporting characters.

  • Richardstokesuk

    its obvious cat woman will bugger off somewhere and Nolan/Bruce/batman will come back and greet robin and also the next film will proablyy be called the dark knight and the boy wonder

  • Psakosky

    The dark knight is a side of batman that I feel can stay outside the justice league. Therefore continue the dark knight series. With or without batman.(preference on with). Then you can make a more unmarked batman (Adam west type) for justice league. As for reboots: there is always a want for more comic books hero movies. Just not a big supply!

  • Troy

    I would love to see a Nightwing movie. 

  • http://twitter.com/petrefax Phillip Seaton

    Personally I’d like to see a Batman Beyond movie with Terry McGinnes and Bruce being the old grizzled mentor but it would make sense to make a Batman movie that would tie into a Justice League film.  Id rather they focus on non Batman films for awhile and focus on developing other superheroes like Wonder Woman. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_DYGXVUACJVVIBXOSYKDOELZRUE JamesB

    If it’s a continuation, WB could get another movie up and rolling in a couple of years but it won’t be a Batman anyone is familiar with. That, I think, will be a huge gamble.

    If it’s a reboot, I think they would let it wait a minimum of 4 or 5 years before approving a new series. That’s how long we waited for The Amazing Spider-Man and Casino Royale.

    What’s interesting is that the Dark Knight trilogy was never originally envisioned as such. Batman Begins was supposed to be the first in a new series of movies. The fact that the crew of TDKR was ballsy to go for the ending we saw would probably frustrate anyone else who want to follow but want to use Bruce Wayne.

  • Nickwinterbottom

    They should get the nightwing franchise started then work like Marvel bringing Superman and Nightwing and the rest of the justice league together and have Nolan oversee. Hope they get rid of Reynolds as Green Lantern for the way it should be for green lantern. The badass black guy.

  • Spid

    I think they should make the next movie, Batman and Robin, or Robin, then Batman and Robin. :)

  • Diehard Designs

    ROBIN BEGINS:

    Robin not being named Dick Grayson, Jayson Todd, or Tim Drake can be explained as he was adopted and the foster organization or his foster family changed his name.  Plain and simple.  
    He discovers his real name and follows the Rabbits Hole to the gambling debt that lead to his father’s death.  This leads him to the a mob boss that has the casinos and bookies all under his thumb.  He’s known as The Penguin.  He’s cold, he’s calculating, and he’ll have you sleeping with the fishes.  He has a specially made cane umbrella with a sword, a gun, and a bullet proof shield canopy built in to protect from hits on his life.  He has a hitman that talks through a ventrilaquist dummy.  Robin kicks but then Penguin goes to prison.  

    Another way to make a sequel to this movie, Scarecrow had escaped the police in Dark Knight Rises & is seen again peddling a new drug to the kids of Gotham.  Not only that but he’s developed SEVERAL NUEROTOXIC CHEMICALS for different effects.  Mind control.  Hallucinations.  Depression.  Allergic Reactions.  Mixed with the Fear Toxin…this becomes an even worse problem.  Some of the drugs get on the street into the hands of kids whose parents were affected by the Dent Act and maybe leaned in Bane’s favor a bit with the whole throwing bankers and rich people from their high rises.  It makes them act out in violence and hatred…much like the notorious “bath salt zombies.”  Some of the kids in the newly donated Wayne Foundation House…get on the stuff too and become a side problem for Robin to deal with.  He eventually has a showdown with Dr. Crane…where he is dreaming insane sequences like in the video game Arkham Asylum.  Since Robin wasnt trained by Ras Ah Guhl…he doesn’t have the ability to fight it like Batman.  So it’s more interesting with the mind control of the whole city and then the psychiatric mind games and hallucinations would be interesting.

    Or a serial killer is sending packages that aren’t legal, per say and is setting up Saw-like traps where Robin has to figure out how to best solve them without hurting the victims.  This killer is dubbed The Riddler.  Reclusive, Genius, and has a bone to pick with the world.  Robin has to track him down and get through mazes, tripwires, puzzles, sodoku, and so much more and then finds that The Riddler wanted to be found because in turn, it was a trap.  Robin solves the trap and Riddler goes to Arkham Asylum.  Riddler figures out how to escape and unleashes the entire Asylum upon Gotham.  Not a blatant assault but a night time creeping of weirdos and psychos doing random things spread apart…far too spread apart for all to be responded to by Robin or the Gotham police.  

  • Miguel

    Well Nolan needs to make another Batman movie that this time Don Frye is The Penguin.

  • Miguel

    What about if James Cameron makes a version of Batman.

  • mdk

    Hire back Joel Schumacher! … No, no… just kidding!

  • JohnB10

    I’d love to see mr freeze done right in a batman film

  • Csonak39

    Reboot with no full on origin story ala Batman ’89.

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/byakuyawhiteknight Byakuya Truelight

    They should stop making Batman movies for now. Instead, they should unite Henry Cavill, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ryan Reynolds, and new cast members for a Justice League movie, in 2015 at the earliest.

    If it’s successful, it could have spinoffs including a Green Lantern sequel, a Man of Steel sequel, a Wonder Woman movie, and a Flash movie, and these could lead up to a second Justice League movie, then more sequels could lead up to a Justice League 3 to end the trilogy, sort of like what Marvel is doing.

    I would love to see a DC Cinematic Universe, with the Justice League on the big screen. Maybe after several years, when they’ve finish doing that, they could do a Batman reboot.

  • …wow…

     because there was no “Batman” in the teenage years of Bruce Wayne, it would be stupid to create a movie of him as a teenager, he wasn’t a superhero and there is no way of spinning it that without steering completely way from the DC Batman, it should stay as a show for children 5 and younger, assuming that’s where you got that thought from….batman beyond…

  • DKR stunk

    use a jla movie to reboot ALL of DCs big 7…….cept the new superman next yr

  • Kimi

    I’d say rest it. I’d have a hard time now seeing anyone but Christian Bale in the role. It’d be interesting to see a long-term relationship explored with the 2 characters in the next one. Plenty of life left in the Batman films

  • Mario Di Giacomo

    I cant tell you what I DON’T want to see… another origin tale.

  • Jonathan Odwyer

    I’d like to see an HBO standard tv show picking up where Rises leaves off. For any that have seen it, there are definite parallels between some recentish comics moments that set up all sorts of possibilities. (i think that’s vague enough to prevent spoilers)

  • http://twitter.com/RodimusBen RodimusBen

    Anything related to the Nolan trilogy should be off the table for future Batman movies. The trilogy began and ended in near-perfect fashion. I had grown so cynical about movies that I didn’t think there could be another film trilogy like Nolan’s Batman, and it deserves to be retired before it is drained of its wonder by the Hollywood sequel money machine.

    WB/DC need to readjust their film strategy, pronto, if a Justice League movie is ever going to happen. Nolan’s Batman is over, Green Lantern tanked, and Man of Steel looks like it’s going to be as much of a misguided mess as Superman Returns. They need a fresh, tentpole movie with an unexplored character, like Marvel did with Iron Man, that will make audiences forget about their previous failures, and use that to build toward a Justice League film. I nominate Wonder Woman.

  • CogInTheWheel

    I say reboot with a director that has enough balls to embrace the source material. A movie version of Court of the Owls with the Alfred from Batman:earth one would be cool. Maybe a movie with Killer Croc….or hell just a movie like Arkham Asylum or Arkham City would be cool.

    I’m done with the version of bruce wayne that gives up on crime to elope with a criminal thats partially responsible for his broken back and temporary imprisonment. That was friggin’ weak.

  • CogInTheWheel

    It was a “real world” batman when it suited Nolan, then when the team wrote themselves into a corner, he could jump huge gaps with no ligament in his knees and drop a nuclear bomb off Gotham harbor with no worry of massive radioactive run-off…..very unrealistic when he wants/needs to be.

    Lets continue the trilogy. Bruce is off galavanting around Paris with selina. Meanwhile in Gotham: everyone has cancerous lumps on their bodies because they ate a few fish off of Gotham harbor, just as a record amount of Gothamites are dying from cancer a hero is born: The Toxic Avenger!! He goes around Gotham curing people of their cancer, john “robin” blake thinks he’s a bad guy and kills him….then “robin” leaves to Paris too because he got tired of Gotham as well.

  • NolanBlows.edu

    Lol, praise Nolan for his crap but dont even give Snyder a chance with a movie that releases a year from now. Yup, really unbiased dude -_-

  • MRMIRACLE

    I’m not sure that a Batman movie about someone other than Wayne as Batman would succeed.  Comics fans might go for it, after all, they went for several years of Nightwing/Azrael-replaces-Batman at different times.  The films, however, have to appeal to a wider audience, and that audience may not be as open to such a  deviation from the classic image.  Further, the very few directors capable of making such a successful extension would be interested in continuing Nolan’s vision, rather than crafting their own.  Reboot’s the better way to go.

  • RunnerX13

    No Reboot, please! Amazing Spider-man might have actually had been a good movie, if it wasn’t a rehash of much of Rami’s.

  • ironman150

    There is no Robin in Nolan’s batverse. Robin Blake would the next Batman. After all “The Batman can be anyone” even a hotheaded kid from a boys home. . 

  • AquaBro

    First I would rest the Batman franchise fo quite a while, let it build up anticipation again. In the meantime focus of other DC properties, most importantly Wonder Woman.

    When its time to do Batman again, try something new that completely seperates it from past incarnations. A Batman Beyond or Arkham Asylum adptation would be cool.

  • Manic Repressive

    Please, no more reboots! I get it, the whiny rich kid’s parents got killed so now he dresses up like Dracula and beats up muggers. Everybody knows the f***ing story, so let’s just get on with it.  Even if the new creative team wants to take things in an entirely different direction with a completely different tone there is no reason to rehash the overdone origin story.

  • http://twitter.com/leandroprieto Leandro Prieto


    They need a fresh, tentpole movie with an unexplored character, like Marvel did with Iron Man”

    Actually, I think they tried to do that with “Green Lantern” and… well…

  • Pod

    I’d love to see a movie following up on the successor thread from Rises.

    I don’t see it as an either/or situation either. If WB wants a Bruce Wayne movie as well then make that too. Something for everyone.

  • Llamamatartu

    No reboot! I think they should create a 4th movie.