Moving on from that point, I'm not really bothered about what else happens in the film. As long as they don't destroy Heath Ledgers potreyal of the Joker, and enroll Quinn properly. I also think this film might be more about the girls (Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy, and Catwoman?) It will be interesting to see who will play these characters. I also think the Riddler will be a main character.

As for the issue on the fact that everyone will be hating Batman now, because he's taken the blame for all Harveys killings, this may be difficult to get around. He will have lost the trust of those who looked up to him, but Gotham will need Batman at some point or another, especially with these other super criminals about to rave havock.

I just hope Nolan pulls it off.

My take an a few Batman 3 titles…

The Knight Crusader… The Dark Crusader… The Caped Crusader… Gothams Crusader… Gothams Knight… Gothams Knight Returns…The Dark Knight Returns…

and my NEW favorite title… ‘The Prince of Darkness’

Christopher (Nolan) should surprise us all… Berry Pepper (Saving Private Ryan, Unknown, Enemy of The State) might be a good surprise as the Riddler, or maybe someone a tad bit older.

Please, I say NO to Johnny (Depp) or Robert (Downey).

Maybe others will agree, I’m just a bit tired seeing them on screen.

Another option would be to have the black mask and his gang.

But please no Robin

OK first of all everyone needs to relax bc this article (as the author stated) was just something silly that while some reasons are actually legitimate, others are not. Secondly, despite all the "great" reasons being put out there, I cannot truly agree with those who say there should not be another film. While I know all of you were wetting your pants for a 2nd Batman film, none of you really thought it was a good idea bc none of you thought that Nolan could do a better job than Batman Begins, and look how wrong you all were. I want a new Batman film as soon as possible, but I think Nolan has proved to us that he will not venture to create a new film unless it is completely perfect and well worked on. So you guys don't have to worry about it being a piece of shit (even if it doesn't top The Dark Knight). Thirdly, I think that a film dedicated to the struggles Batman will have to deal with by BLATANTLY being the villain to the public could be a really great and interesting film. Remember, this isn't a sequel (at least not in Nolan's eyes) because Batman Begins and The Dark Knight were too very different, very exceptional films. The third film would be another installment, but a completely different one. I personally cannot wait for the details to be released on the new film but I'm happy with waiting as long as possible because I expect nothing but the best from Nolan. And I believe that he will not disappoint. And as for he Raimi reason, Nolan would never ALLOW himself to turn into that, because unlike the Spiderman films, Nolan's Batman series is not blatantly comic bookish or campy.

the first movie showed the beginning of batman : Bruce Wayne creating an unavoidable uncorruptable character, with that he injected fear in Gotham's criminals. They feared him because they didn't understand him and that was what created a new evolution of criminals like the joker, which as the second movie showed, began with some bullets and cash and ended up with all the criminal minds in the city.

the joker did his share and took over, watching the world burn, which made batman look really bad as he was the origin of all this. But this time things changed, as batman experienced something new and unexpected: an interfere with his personal life; the joker managed to kill Rachel, make it look like batman's fault and not only that, but making bruce thinking it's really his fault. at the end Harvey Dent – the real true hero – turns into an enemy and dies at the end. for the city to remain hopeful, batman suggests the whole thing to be his fault; by declaring that, batman is Gotham's enemy.

I know nothing about the third movie but I should say that I'm really waiting for it to come, because the artistic mind, the great plot and the uncredible screenplay planning of the great Christopher Nolan are by a great distance,the best things that contributed not only to the fiction-reality conversions, but to the filmography world. the Dark Knight is very likely to be the greatest movie of all times, I see movies all the time but I could never get over the DK.

The whole plot twist could then be for the upstanding citizens to betray the people of gotham and batman rising to the occation, saving them once more.

As for viral site being annoying, don't be dumb, you have to VISIT the site to even see it, and if you're not interested in it then you don't HAVE to visit, so it's more likely that YOU are annoying.

There is nothing wrong with Raimi. He's more of a director than he is a writer (Nolan can't direct a fight scene for $h!t) but that doesn't mean anything. The final act of (the mostly crap) Spiderman 3 was AMAZING (no pun intended).

I'm not even gonna bother reading the rest of what is most likely crap.

But I agree with you Krys: the third need not be better (or at least, not along the same lines). Nolan can do a really solid job without feeling that it challenge the second one, which was admittedly through the roof. But there may be a few actors who will welcome the challenge of being more of a threat than Ledger's Joker, albeit in another direction.

I do wonder if (since it's been admitted that Ledger was to be in the third movie) we had a hint about what was in store when Alfred observed that "some men just want to watch the world burn".

Two things, the coin was being flipped for Gordon's son. I'd like to believe that it meant Harvey is alive, and I'm not saying he isn't, but the flip was for the son who lived.

And I'm not sure if I'm the same as most fans in this regard, but I won't ask Nolan to make a better movie for the third installment. All I will ask of him is that he does it, and that it is at least as good as Batman Begins. I hope this will be true of most fans, and I hope that will convince him to do it. As you will notice, most of those 'third installment issues' where from a change in director, and I think if Nolan sticks with it, it will still be great and not fall into any 'curse'. (My one qualm is that I actually like Blade Trinity much better than the second one, so I don't think it falls into the 'curse' either.)

Just take stock of all the bad three parts in a film and see what they have in common. They abandon the complex story thread and character development in lieu of more explosions, more gadgets, more fights. Take X-men 3 as Exhibit A. It followed the highly complicated and intriguing character-driven film X-men 2. And then proceeded to jettison all of that potential for a knockdown street brawl meant to highlight the various mutants' powers. In fact, the Iceman/Pyro duel at the end of the movie is representative of the film as a whole – good guys face bad guys, both are at a standstill, good guys figure out how to beat bad guys, bad guys lose (without actually dying, so as to keep the option open for a fourth film).

X-men 3 suffered from the same temptation that most franchises succumb to – the tendency to market the next story as 'their greatest adventure yet' or 'the biggest challenge they've ever faced' or 'this bad guy is really *really* bad ass.' By trying to constantly up the ante the story gets lost in the shuffle. And without solid narrative a movie – especially a comic book adaptation – is just a series of special effects and fights.

So if Batman 3 is made, I'm not worried about who the villain will be. In fact, I hope it will be rather low-key. Batman doesn't need an enemy as challenging or as intense as Ledger's Joker for the movie to be great. Personally, I would like to see a film where Batman takes on crime rings without there even being a major villain. Even if they don't take this tack, however, the film can still be good so long as it is not trying to compete with the previous film. Another Batman film that explores more of the Batman mythos will be plenty entertaining.