Nice!

Mad Hatter maybe? I was hoping for the title of Shadow of the Bat.

I’m still hoping for Bane, but only if he can be portrayed as an intelligent and lethal Anti-Batman. It would make sense for the government to bring in someone to find the Batman since they think he’s a murderer and the GCPD (especially with Gordon potentially sabotaging them) won’t be able to catch Batman.

If Nolan wants to bring everything full-circle, they could tie Bane to the League of Shadows and even bring Ra’s back at the end.

Two guesses:

I like the idea of Ra’s coming back in some form (Bruce’s love interest is dead, so that would give a nice romantic interest in Talia) to bring it full-circle.

However, if you retconned the end of the last film that Gordon and Batman decided that it would be better to pretend Dent was dead, but he really wasn’t, then the revelation of that becoming public would clear Batman’s name, and he could “rise” again.

I just can’t imagine any other villian giving that “epic” feel that the other two movies achieved. Plus, if Nolan is truly thinking of this as a third act, it might be a bit late to introduce completely new foes.

I’m thrilled that the Riddler is out! He is camp as hell! I do not like the title however. They could go for The Caped Crusader or Gotham’s Guardian or something…

Pretty sure the title makes sense to me, from a business standpoint. They’d definitely want a tie to THE DARK KNIGHT and the heaps of cash it made.

Bummed about the Riddler, though. He’s definitely a character I wanted the Nolan perspective on. I’ll hedge the bets and say we get Catwoman, some mash-up of Penguin/Hush/Black Mask, and hopefully a Scarecrow cameo.

Rises from what? Is he rising from ashes? Death?

They should use the use the series of the killing joke or Batman family as a background? Hush series would be great or knightfall

Lets see Bane go toe to toe with Bats

Maybe Batman went into hiding immediately after the first movie, and he must “rise” to face a new threat.

I like that the Riddler is NOT in it. The Riddler never did anything for me. I’m going with Mike’s thoughts, I’m betting Harvey Dent/Two-Face isn’t dead. Another theory is that Ras Al Ghoul was reserrected through the Lazarus Pit, because after all in Batman Begins Ras didn’t look to upset that he was about to “die”. Hell maybe it’ll be both Ras and Two-Face. Oh and Eek!….LAUGHING MY ASS OFF!!!!!

While Talia would be a great story, I always thought Clayface would be an excellent opponent for this Batman. I would have him be an actor who is researching a part and communicates with Joker in jail and falls under his spell (as does his psychiatrist in a cameo) and is an excellent make up artist. He starts having side effects from Janus make up products which makes his face to lose coherence. The influence of Joker makes him turn lemons into lemonade and we find the Batman up against a criminal who could be anyone. We could also see Joker mess with Batman’s mind by having clayface appear as two face or even the Joker briefly. (reuse footage or CGI or have it out of the corner of your eye)
I think _that_ story would be awesome…
Which is why we will never see it.

The return of Ras would be great. Using Talia as the love interest which later turns out to be a set up by her father could be interesting. I would love for them to bring back Two-Face and am not sure iof Dent was really killed in the last movie… Catwoman???

The title is redundant. Of course he’s going to “rise”. It’s the third part of a trilogy. He’ll be redeemed from the end of TDK. I’m guessing he gets his identity revealed and will finally be able to follow in his father’s footsteps as Gotham’s benefactor and protector without the need for the mask.

Glad Riddler isn’t in it, and hopefully Catwoman and Penguin stay away. Talia makes total sense, and would combine a likeable villain/hero with a love interest now that Rachel’s gone. Don’t know if Ra’s will come back, but as long as Talia is in there, I don’t care who the major ‘villain’ of the film is.

btw Bale is an incredible Batman/Wayne.

Cool poster.

BUT…! I think “Batman: DARK VICTORY” would have been a million times better as a title. And definitely, Two-Face as the villain. He could be responsible for the deaths of Dick Graysons parents, and thereby taking inspiration from several versions of Robin, and finally bringing the franchise full circle.

Last scene of the movie would be Bruce Wayne finally adopting a 12-year old Dick Grayson.

too bad Two-face is dead he would of been great for these movie and the Riddler too he more dark then Joker sometimes but I understand why they did it I mean they don’t want to make the same mistake Marvel is doing.

As for the bad guy since Nolan has dumb down batman bad guys and none of the cool ones can appear I guess that leave Wrath, Black Mask and Catwoman

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Talia, Catwoman, Ras Al Ghul, and Scarecrow.

Angelina Jolie should be either Talia or Catwoman (she could be great as either). Liam Neeson back as Ras Al Ghul; Cillian Murphy back as Scarecrow

Talia helps resurrect her father via the Lazarus Pit and the two of them come after Batman for revenge.

Catwoman debuts. Scarecrow escapes jail.

The triangle of Batman, Talia, Catwoman begins.

iim still hoping for Dr. Hugo Strange as the main villain.

“why do we fall?”

“So that we can learn to pick ourselves up”

I still don’t understand why people were so hung up on the Bat-voice… It was fine, I think his voice really would be rough and gravelly, and he had to disguise it somehow.
Better than Tobey Maguire not changing his voice AT ALL when he was in his Spidey costume!

I think Bale has easily been the best live action Batman/Bruce Wayne ever. The only other Batman I like as much is, naturally, Kevin Conroy’s.

Anyhow, I’d love to find that Ra’s was revived via the Lazarus Pit, thanks to Talia, and Ra’s ends up reviving Two-Face to bring him over to his crusade and help in his efforts to bring down Batman.

Hush seems more Nolan’s style. He’s a really great villain who doesn’t really on some supernatural element in order to be effective. I think a Hush story would have massive potential, with Catwoman being introduced as well so we can have the Selina/Bruce and Catwoman/Batwoman romatic elements. If it turns out I’m wrong about that, then perhaps Victor Zsasz. Whatever Nolan decides to do, though, you can bet it will be a realistic story. His justification of the fantastic is what made the first two films so great.

And this is why I’m glad comic fans don’t write movies.

I liked the idea of introducing Jaris Tech/The Mad Hatter for several reasons: He is a tragic character much like Batman, and he can be very dangerous with technology, as apposed to Batman’s use of gadgetry for good. As the police are hunting down Batman, Bruce Wayne desides to “let Batman disappear for a while” until he can figure things out. Gotham is in financial and moral ruin, and its up to Wayne to help fix the city using Wayne Enterprises. At the same time, I would introduce a young brilliant, but outcast Jarvis Tech, as a scientist who specializes in microtechnology/sleep is hired by Bruce to work in Wayne Enterprises’s technology department. Jarvis is a sad character who never feels the love of others, is always alone, and feels rejected. He lusts the life Bruce has. He reads fantasy novels in his spare time, such as “Alice In Wonderland” to escape from the real darkness of life. Jarvis creates a prototype blutooth cellphone (rather than mind control chips like in the comics) that is designed to emitt soundwaves that force the brain to discontinue stress. Realizing he has created a revolutionary product that can actually help humanity, Tech unfortunatly allows his own personal tragedies get the best of him. At the same time, we introduce Bruce’s new love interest: Barbara Gordon, the beautiful daughter of Commissioner Gordon. She comes back to Gotham to be there for her family after the who Joker/Two-Face scare. Bruce hires her as his receptionist at Wayne Enterprises, and the two fall in love. However, Jarvis too falls in love with Barbara, for she is “the only thing who showed him kindness” and he dubbs her his “Alice”. He is constantly rejected by her, and her and Bruce become a couple. Feeling all the sadness a man can take, Jarvis finally snapps one night, and we see the psychological transformation (much as we saw Harvey Dent to Two Face in TDK) for Jarvis into The Mad Hatter. Jarvis begins to dress in very fancy, modernized clothing and bears a black mortician’s tophat. He comes across as a “Romanticised, fantasy gentleman” like that of a wannabe hero from a book. His gentleman nature hides his newfound cunningness and desire for evil. He cannot differentiate reality from fantasy (by fantasy I mean right and wrong) and murders people when they least expect it. He also frames Bruce/Batman for the murder of someone importaint (like Gordon) in addition for being the blame for Dent’s murder. Bruce is unmasked and sent to Arkham. He screams, “i’m not insane!” and nobody will believe him. Bruce loses all of Gotham’s respect, as the news displays him as insane. Meanwhile, Tech makes a deadly modification to his blutooth cellphones. He makes it so the seemingly harmless soundwaves that are supposed to sooth the brain from simple stress into a devise that emitts soundwaves that slowly rot people’s brains without them realizing it. In the meantime, the citizens who use the cellphones are unable to differentiate between reality and fantasy. (example, some people begin to kill others for no reason, while others think they can jump off a building and fly, but can’t realize the real outcome!) This is what Bruce tries to warn people of. Jarvis takes over Wayne Enterprises and puts the devices into the market. Everyone in Gotham loves Jarvis for creating a stress-reducing blutooth, but can’t see the true evil he plans. Eventually, it leads to a standoff at a crumbling Wayne Enterprises, in that conference room with the long table, windows shattered, dark and stormy morning sunrise. Tech goes mad and lashes out at Bruce, explaining that he always wanted life to be like a fantasy, perfect like Alice In Wonderland. And he finally made it so the people of Gotham are trapped in a psychological dreamland without even realizing it! But he reveals that in a certain amount of minutes, people will instantly die on a grand scale due to the brain rot from the soundwaves. In the end, Batman/Bruce defeats him by deactivating the machines. Jarvis, after realizing how evil he had become, decides to end his miserable life by comitting suicide and jumps to his death off the roof of the Wayne Enterprises building. Batman saves Barbara, and redeems himself to Gotham city. In the end, Bruce and Barbara decide to leave Gotham for a while. Bruce says they are going “To Metropolis”, which could open a door for a future Batman/Superman film. *Bows* Does anyone like that idea? ©Story property of Cedric Stewart

@ Cedric:I like your idea too Cedric! I never thought of the Mad Hatter in that vien.

@ Bunger: Who do you think writes anything in most mediums? …Comic fans do! I even know of member of Congress that used to read comics! Get a clue dude!

@ Ivan_Mtl: do you have to use the term “A la.” So cliche!

@ comic_dude

Why not?

@Cedric:

No one wants to see the Hatter portrayed as an “emo” loner trying to wrench sympathy for the audience. People will piss themselves laughing when they see it and you will have killed all the progress made in the last two films by Nolan and co.

@Cedric:

Nice try, but the answer is still no.

I think if this is to be a FINAL Batman story, I would like to see it end with Bruce Wayne locked up in a cell at Arkham Asylum playing cards (Gin Rummy) with the Joker who suggests that they switch to poker… with jokers being wild!

@Ryan… I use “a la” every day. I live and work in Montreal, Quebec (Canada) where the official language is french. lol It’s like, you know… the way english kids use the word “like” (like in every sentence).

I’m telling you guys, Mad Hatter!

@ timothy Nolan’s gonna start working on a Superman reboot, Nolan style of course, called “The Man of Steel”. Hopefully within the next decade we’ll see a Batman/Superman film. Now that would be cool too. But I totally agree, a legion of superheroes would be sweet!

Wow whered you go to college Harvard, lol, newayz your a great writer, any tips?

Daaaammmm howd you get that layout yo! its FREESSHH!!