[FlakBait]

Here’s the next step in the evolution of Hollywood’s never-ending circle of creative recycling: Batman is getting a reboot. They’re already planning to start the whole franchise over, even though the next installment in the current incarnation, The Dark Knight Rises, is still filming.

This comes straight from Warner Bros. chief Jeff Robinov who tells the LA Times: “We have the third Batman, but then we’ll have to reinvent Batman… Chris Nolan and [producing partner and wife] Emma Thomas will be producing it, so it will be a conversation with them about what the next phase is.”

The problem for Warners is that they don’t want to stop making Batman movies, they’re too profitable, but Christopher Nolan has already made it clear that he won’t direct another one after he finishes with The Dark Knight. The logical thing to do, would be to bring in someone else to pick up the story where he left off, but odds are without Nolan most of the cast won’t be back and everything about the fourth Batman movie will be completely different from the Nolan series anyway.

Creatively speaking, the right thing to do is probably to simply stop making Batman movies for awhile and let things cool off, but WB isn’t going to do that. Not just because Batman movies make insane amounts of money, but because they’re planning to follow the Marvel movie path and bring their DC superhero characters into a Justice League team-up movie. They’ll need Batman there to anchor that and they’ll probably want some sort of solo Batman movie to tie it all together, even if it ends up being nothing like the Batman we know and love now.

The last time WB tried to pull something like this off, by taking Batman in a new direction after the departure of a successful, franchise director, this is what happened:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3slInVLWC9I&feature=player_embedded

http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Batman-Reboot-Being-Planned-After-Dark-Knight-Rises-23926.html

What the f*cking f*ck? really??? now they’re just going to reboot a franchise after a certain director finishes with his movies? god forbid they actually try something like character development for more then 2 movies!!!
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[Danny]

it’s too bad reboots are so profitable. Seems to be all I hear about now: Spiderman reboot, Hulk reboot, wonder woman reboot, superman reboot. It gets tiresome.

On the flipside I’d be lying if I didn’t say I’m hoping and praying someone will make a movie for either the punisher or ghost rider that doesn’t suck so reboots have there place I guess

[BlackKusanagi]

Reboots are the new sequels. Its sickening.

[Ashlee]

speaking of which Rich told me that the batman & robin movie makers tried to to have the batman movie cartoon delayed. because they were fraid of the comparison and they were right the cartoon movie was far surperior .
Patrick Stewart would have been far better MR Freeze & play him as a tragic figure
instead of for laffs, and AUGH! Thurman as Ivy ???
It was (I LOVE) the batman TV show with a huge Budget, and arrogant ,no talent cast.

[Reason]

I remember the first time I ever heard the term “reboot” was in reference to the then upcoming Batman Begins film, and that didn’t turn out too badly. It was certainly better than Batman 5 would have been!

I think they are a great way to go in a new direction with the characters, but I would hate to see just a rehash of what Nolan did. What I would really like to see is an old and grisly Batman, like in Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns comic.

[fasola]

What I think flack is refering to, is that DV/Warner will release a reboot maybe 2 or 3 years after Nolan’s movies. Wich, would totally suck.
Between that insult that was B&R and Begins, 8 years had passed, and the reboot or reimagining was obvious, specially how the franchise had tanked thanks to good ol’ Joel.
Nolan’s third movie would be as good as the other 2, or better, and a reboot so soon, with this story still fresh in the memory of movie goers, would be very harmfull to the franchise.
I think that the difference with Marvel, is that DC saw what marvel achieved, and decided to hop on the “Continuity/Universe” train.
DC’s characters are more stand alone, than part of a bigger univerrse, where they interact. Each character has a fictional city they live and fight crime, while marvel, makes them all hang out in NY, and that makes it easier for them to be together.

[Reason]

It’s fair enough that WB will want to another Batman movie in 2-3 years after Dark Knight Rises. Nolan does not want to direct, so the only alternative would be for someone else to direct a sequel set in Nolan’s Batman universe, which would surely reflect more poorly on Nolan’s films than a standalone reboot.

By the way, I don’t think a reboot has to be an origin story, which has pretty much been done to death. It might just be some original story featuring the Batman characters.

[Matthew Lim]

The term ‘Reboot’ has become sort of a dirty word as of late. Personally I welcome reboots to a certain degree, more so in the fashion the DC Animated Films have been doing things where they ditch the canon of other stories and tell their own.

I’m willing to accept a new version of Batman that separates itself from the ‘Chris Nolan’ series. As a comic fan, I like to relate movies to one-shots or standalone series. I’d much rather a director tell their own version of a superhero story in its own continuity than having it be told with past versions being attached at the hip. Just as long as it isn’t another origins story.

That alone has been my biggest gripes with doing reboots, I don’t want to hear about how Batman became Batman after I’ve already heard how Batman became Batman at least three times before. It’s my primary complaint with the new Spider-Man film. We’ve already seen Peter Parker in his awkward teenage years, and now we have to see it again from square one? There are really great Spider-Man storylines I’d like to see translated to film or television like Identity Crisis, The Night Gwen Stacy Died, Torment, American Son, hell I’d even like to see the crappy Clone Saga. But since ramming his origins down our throat on the basis that studios believe we need to hear this story be told again, I doubt I’ll ever see the stories I want to see in my lifetime.

[Ashlee]

If there going to reboot ,do death in the family, dark night returns ,or the killing joke

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Off Topic: Kiss The Maniac… I hope that avatar really isn’t you dude. :blink:

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