Sean Report :Future of Batman after Nolan

Director Christopher Nolan stated that Batman 3 will be his last Batman movie and Christian Bale announced that he'll continue as Batman only if Nolan is directing. So what will happen to Batman after Nolan hangs the towel?

Who will be the director to replace him and carry on the dark and realistic theme of his version of Batman? Who will replace Christian Bale as the Caped Crusader? These questions and a few others remain in unanswered.

Even though the realistic theme is working magnificient for Nolan's Batman, it will be great for fans of the comic to see characters such as Nightwing, Batgirl, and Catwoman helping Batman to defeat villains like Black Mask, Bane, Poison Ivy, Clayface and Killer Croc in future Batman movies. It will be pleasing if Superman makes an appearance.

The realistic feel of The Dark Knight brings in more adult audience and the film is also enjoyable for those who does not like Batman or thinks it's for kids.

However, if the studio is to stay true to the Caped Crusader's comic ventures and please the hard-core fans, characters and villains of Batman's later years will have to appear in future films to portray masterpiece storylines such as The Dark Knight Returns, War Games, No Man's Land and Hush.

The no-CGI- based villains rule will have to be broken but how these interesting characters will be portrayed in the most realistic way possible will depend on the future writers and director of the franchise.

- Sean Hein