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Right now as we
speak fans of comic books and of Batman are running around on Fan
fiction websites and message boards devising their own plots for
Batman 3. Everyone, and I mean everyone, has an opinion on where
part three in Nolan's Batman series should go, and they have an idea
on what he should do, who he should include, and what should happen
to the trilogy. Everyone is at an impasse trying to explain what
their vision would and should be for the third leg in the "Batman"
series and guess what: we're not different. We have our own ideas
and wishes for the third film coming up in 2012, and we hope this
doesn't fall on deaf ears. (Yes we know it will, but humor us.)
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Part Three Is It
I know this series is going to
be revived eventually by Warner Bros. who don't want to
let the character die for its potential to rake in the
big bucks. Batman is a character who makes a lot of
money for them. We're not kidding ourselves when Nolan
says this is it for his Batman, but at least let it end
for a good while and allow the fans to be settled in
with Nolan's radical version of the Dark Knight for a
good long time. Part three must be it mainly for Nolan's
arc. I'm sure once the estimates come in for the third
part of Christopher Nolan's Batman series, the studios
are going to butt heads and say "We have to keep this
cash machine rolling" so Nolan will probably drop out to
move on, they'll bring in another director claiming they
want to bring a fresh new take on the Batman lore, and
completely destroy anything and everything Nolan set
down in his series like they did with the "X-Men"
movies. If that has to happen (and it will, I
guarantee), then let this be an end to Nolan's trilogy
once and for all. No question marks, no hinting to a
sequel, no open doors, just end it already. End Bale's
run, end everything altogether and leave it up to the
studios to pick it up and dust it off. I have faith
Christopher Nolan will indeed close off his own series
once and for all by bringing the entire origin of Batman
to a close, so let three be it and stop it altogether. I
will be waiting ten years from now when rumblings of a
new Batman movie series will begin. And I will thank
Nolan for knowing when to put an end to it.
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Don't Recast the Characters or Bring in Old Villains.
No new joker! Do
you hear me? No new Joker! And on that topic, do not at
all recast the villains and bring in the old villains.
We had Scarecrow, Ra's Al Ghul, Two Face, and the Joker,
so they're automatically off the table for this series.
Sure The Scarecrow had a cameo in "The Dark Knight" but
it was to seal up the questions asked by many after he
suddenly disappeared after "Batman Begins." Batman has a
plethora of villains Nolan can choose from to take off
in his movie, or perhaps put a spin on the more obscure
ones. Why not bring in Catwoman as a brilliant
professional freelance thief who happens to cross paths
with Batman during a gig, what about Deadshot as a
masterful assassin hired to bring Batman down who is
relentless in his pursuit, what about Killer Croc as a
deranged deformed freak on the loose, imagine The
Riddler as a genius sophisticated strategist and
mathematician who can provide Batman some brain flexing
instead of reducing him to throwing punches? What about
a maniacal Joker disciple born from the Joker's
teachings named Harley Quinn who is intent on following
in her deity's footsteps like the Two-Face? Words are
powerful and it's possible the Joker's carnage inspired
a slew of anarchists other than Two Face. Maybe he even
inspired a cult. We saw it in "Batman Beyond" after all.
What about Poison Ivy? She could easily be a sort of
psychotic environmentalist who uses the toxins of plants
to wreak havoc on Gotham. She doesn't have to have that
dumb costume, control plants or seduce Batman, she could
just easily be someone with great intentions who went
nuts from their pursuit. The possibilities are endless
people!
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A Final Suit for Batman
There will always be a new
suit for Batman in the universe from the comics to the
series', right to fan photos. Batman has had literally
hundreds of costumes with minor tweaks and major
variations. He's had long ears, short ears, expanded
ears, humongous capes, short capes, no capes, body
plating, yellow bright insignia, gray shading tights,
dark blue shading tights, etc. But what with the
explanation that the third film is intended to close off
the entire trilogy and bring Batman's storyline to a
close once and for all, how about a final suit? It
doesn't have to have nipples and silver splashes but it
could look quite similar to the famous suit while
sticking to the tech soldier look we saw in "The Dark
Knight." If this is the final, then give us a definitive
version of the costume that shows us Nolan has been here
and no one else can hold a candle to what he's brought
to fans of the Dark Knight.
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The Bat Cave
If you're going to call him
Batman, you have to give him a bat cave and Nolan hasn't
quite given him one at all. You can pull off a Batcave
and steep it in realism as Nolan has committed to doing
in this series. In "Batman Begins" Nolan pretty much
gave Batman his own bat cave that was pretty accidental
and not at all instrumental in helping Batman solve his
case other than being a testing ground for his costume
and weapons. Then it was demolished and hinted that
Bruce was rebuilding drastically. In "The Dark Knight"
he instead had a massive condo along a skyscraper, with
an underground base that looked like the Bat Cave but
really wasn't. I hope Nolan delivers in that respect.
The Bat Cave is an important factor in Batman's cases.
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A Reasonable End and Redemption for
Batman.
At the end of "The Dark
Knight," Bruce Wayne made an incredible sacrifice.
Instead of letting the Joker win once and for all and
showing the world that the one true hero left in Gotham
had been corrupted by the smiling madman, he instead
helped Jim Gordon cover up the death and allowed himself
to become the villain who betrayed Gotham to instill a
sense of hope in the citizens of Gotham that their one
true hero was dead but still prevailed in his values and
teachings. All the while preventing further vigilantes
from emerging. Gordon was now Batman's enemy in the end
and that was something he had to do or else lose Gotham
once and for all to grief. In the end of the third film
I don't want to see Batman waving to crowds in a ticker
tape parade, but I would like some acknowledgement that
his crusade was not in vain and that Gotham trusted him
again thanks to a grand deed. What deed? That's for
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