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Pre-production to start in Feb 2009? October 5th, 2008

News reported by Pro­duc­tion Weekly (an indus­try pub­li­ca­tion), has indi­cated that it is expected that pre-production for bat­man 3 should start in Feb 09.  It also lists Christo­pher Nolan as dire­tor but this is yet to be con­firmed by Warner Bros. or indeed Christo­pher Nolan.  How­ever we would all be sur­prised if he isn’t gonna be involved.  We sit and wait for the offi­cial announcement.

Comments No Responses to “Pre-production to start in Feb 2009?”

Ben­jamin October 5th, 2008

I wouldn’t be sur­prised, he hasn’t expressed any real inter­est in doing it yet. He said he would only con­tinue if he felt some­thing needed to be told or if he thought he could top him­self. I ould be sur­prised if he got the notion that he could con­tinue the series.

Bruce Fig­gins October 6th, 2008

Nolan didn’t think “some­thing needed to be told”? Gor­don and the cops chas­ing Bat­man at the end of TDK didn’t leave the story open to a con­clud­ing film?

Jasta October 7th, 2008

With all the mas­sive hype like do this, do that, etc going on after the suc­cess­ful sequel, it’ll be a dif­fer­ent and dif­fi­cult task for Chris Nolan to com­plete the thrid one. Since Bat­man came back to life with Bat­man begins, I have a feel­ing that the fol­low ups don’t have to be extremely super hyped like the antic­i­pa­tion for the third movie. Just let Bat­man be. I hope Chris Nolan and co with Hans Zim­mer and James New­ton Howard come back with­out get­ting by the fans. I’d rather have a sur­prise than telling those peo­ple do this and do that.

DAVID S. October 7th, 2008

Lets just hope for the best that he returns to do the third film.

Nick October 10th, 2008

i hope Nolan returns for the third film i think he will, the fact is that Warner Bros. are going to have a third film no mat­ter what they want the money, so its bet­ter to have the guy who made it great to return then give the film to some­one else to direct

DAVID S. October 13th, 2008

I just heard that David S. Goyer said that all the rumors to start­ing Pro­duc­tion in Febuary is total Bull­shit! That all the rumors are com­pletely false.

Tim October 16th, 2008

Yeah, Goyer debunked all those rumors

Kelly R October 18th, 2008

Bale and Nolan both signed on to do 3 bat­man films. I also believe that Old­man and Caine did as well. They’re will be a 3rd bat­man and Chris Nolan will be return­ing to direct.

Eugene October 20th, 2008

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OYD October 25th, 2008

I don’t really care see­ing as Dark Knight stank big time

Tim October 27th, 2008

Kelly R,

You’re very wrong and I need to cor­rect you. Chris Nolan didn’t sign for 3 movies. Why do you think everyone’s been talk­ing about him return­ing for a 3rd?? The pres­i­dent of DC Comics even said that Nolan isn’t signed for a new Bat­man flick. Yes, the actors signed on for mul­ti­ple movies, but none of the crew. Film crews don’t (or can’t) typ­i­cally sign on for mul­ti­ple movies due to the movie stu­dios. And we’ll see a third film only IF they make one.

OYD,

you are a flam­ing, trolling idiot.

destruct26 October 28th, 2008

Chris­t­ian Bale has also stated that he will only do it if Chris Nolan is direct­ing. I find that mighty inter­est­ing. So what hap­pens if Chris Nolan doesnt direct? Bale is con­trac­tu­ally bound to do it. I can see David S Goyer tak­ing the reigns as direc­tor with Jonathan Nolan writ­ing the screen play. Or– take in a com­pletely dif­fer­ent direc­tion while keep­ing some of the same vibe that Nolan used in BB or TDK. In the end, I hope he does come back to direct the last in the fran­chise. I dont want another “Bat­man For­ever” or have it turn out like the Xmen tril­ogy. And id be appalled if he came back and it turned out like the Spi­der­man tril­ogy. Uck. Its only been 3+ months since TDK pre­miered so I doubt that any fur­ther info will be announced until the end of 2009 or early 2010 but hey, i could be wrong…

T-Bat December 4th, 2008

I cant imag­ine there not being an inter­est­ing story to tell. The Bat­man uni­verse is spilling over with poten­tial so its just a mat­ter of the right script. per­son­ally I think the stage is per­fectly set to intro­duce Selina Kyle aka Cat­woman. As much as this might smack of “bat­man Returns”, The Dark Knight tack­led the orig­i­nal 1989 Bat­man theme and hit it out of the park. With the death of Rachel Dawes, Bruce/Batman is ripe for con­fronting the likes of Ms Kyle. As much a savvy busi­ness woman as Bruce him­self in the real­ity world, and then pack­ing her finely honed bur­glary skills that places her on the other side of Batman’s val­ues. yet the chem­istry between them can­not be denied.
Plus with Maroni’s demise as Gothams crime lord, the stage is set for the Pen­guin to step in as Gothams ver­sion of Al Capone.
This story tri­an­gle has solid poten­tial and could put for­ever to rest the total crap and mock­ery that Tim Bur­ton pro­duced in Bat­man Returns. Its time to tell this story right and Nolan is the man for the job.