Jumping the gun: Batman in 2012

[Magus]

Wait wait wait wait wait.

We're debating properly hiding spoilers for The Dark Knight? Somebody hasn't seen The Dark Knight? That almost needs its own thread.

Clayface is right out of the Nolanverse, but Killer Croc could be done if they went "the cannibal with skin disease" route of the graphic novel Joker. He'd easily be done as a side villain involved in some scenes (kind of like Mr. Zsasz or whatever, certainly not the focus of the movie but he can be in it without much fuss).

If they could turn Killer Croc into a full blown and interesting villain I'd be amazed, though.

Robin should not be in the movie, unless it's like, right at the end and its implied they will be partners now, since its the end of the trilogy. Like, Dick Grayson can be in it, and maybe he he gets to choose whether or not to kill Tony Zucco and makes the right (Batman) choice to not do it right near the end, but he should never actually be Robin in the movie.

EDIT: And a circus should probably not be involved either, because, seriously, a circus? C'mon.

[CABAL49]

Depending on how they did it, Deadshot could be a pretty believable villian

[Magus]

Does he have any interesting parallels that could be made with Batman's character/history to advance the movie's theme?

[Seil]

The Trailer

The IMDB Website

The Rumor

Originally Posted by http://www.cinematical.com/2010/04/30/batman-3-nabs-a-release-date/

Congrats, you Bat nuts finally have an actual day to obsess over for months and months. Warner Bros. has officially announced the release date of Christopher Nolan's third Batman film: July 20th, 2012. All signs have been pointing toward the third Bat installment arriving in 2012, and you didn't have to be a rocket scientist to guess Warners would stick the flick on the same weekend as its closest sibling (especially since it shattered records), but it's still nice to know for sure that we'll be getting a new Batman movie from Nolan on a specific date in the future. It's all set in stone -- we can change the pencil to pen, make the invitations and start looking for a florist and photographer. This deal is done.

Now comes the fun part: 1. Who are the villains? 2. Which actors and actresses are playing those villains? Who else will Nolan add to his delightful, ever-growing ensemble cast? Which actress will replace Maggie Gyllenhaal as the girl Bruce Wayne wants to sleep with? Will Christian Bale lessen the growl a little bit so we don't immediately make fun of him after the credits roll? Can anyone top Ledger? Will this new film forever live in the shadow of its predecessor no matter what they do? How do you make a follow up to one of greatest superhero films of all time?

Those questions -- and many more, I imagine -- will be answered one by one over the next several months. What are you looking forward to most with the film?

[Osterbaum]

The riddler seems like pretty natural choice. Hopefully they'll mainly stick with one villain.

[Doc ock rokc]

Counter Rumor
Plus who wouldn't want this?

[Donomni]

We all know that Neil Patrick Harris would make an awesome Riddler.

Also, he already has Bat-experience.

[Magus]

Can anyone explain why the Riddler is "such an obvious choice" despite the comics treating him like a huge joke and his animated version, while having an awesome labyrinth, not really fitting into the Nolanverse, and his most interesting traits like riddles and clues and main motive being co-opted by the Joker in a 2 1/2 hour movie?

There's no new ground here and the old ground doesn't appear to be particularly interesting, either. Throwing Catwoman in there would make more sense at this point to me (I'm not cheering for something so unoriginal but if I had to make a list she'd rate higher than the Riddler).

Also fake trailers are interesting but anyone can do that! I can post fake trailers featuring Black Mask and Hush! Even when having both in the same movie would make no sense whatsoever, they're like the same character with different plot devices for what makes them into the supervillain.

[Meister]

What's that, an existing and very recent Batman movie thread? WELL I'LL NEVER

Which actress will replace Maggie Gyllenhaal as the girl Bruce Wayne wants to sleep with? Will Christian Bale lessen the growl a little bit so we don't immediately make fun of him after the credits roll?

"Hi, we're smug morons with a ridiculous sense of entitlement who are completely fine with the 'just make more of the same, no one will care' approach producers take with contemporary mainstream movies and we have a website."

e: dude Seil not to pick on you but your link to "the rumour" leads to an article that obviously (if badly) makes fun of people who actually take "yeah it'd be fun" as the starting point of a rumour and some might say you could have chosen better.

[Magus]

They struck me more as people who simply don't have anything to really say about it since there's nothing to actually say other than there is a release date, which is why the article was 60% rhetorical questions and lame attempts at humor based on jokes that are pretty old at this point. Most movie sites are like that, I'm not surprised Cinematical is the same.