"The Dark Knight" director Christopher Nolan spoke with USA Today, telling the paper that he is hesitant about starting the third Batman movie, because third installments in franchises don't do very well. Just look at "Shrek the Third," "Spider-Man 3," "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" and many others.
"I don't know why they're hard to do," said Nolan. "Maybe there's so much expectation to them. But I wouldn't want to do one if it weren't going to be as good as the first or second. That's not respectful to the fans."
The DVD for "Knight" will be available in stores tomorrow (December 9th) and we already heard that Heath Ledger does not appear in any of the deleted scenes. According to Nolan, it has nothing to do with Ledger's death. "For my past three films, I really haven't had scenes that didn't make it in the movie," he said. "If it's in the final script, I tend put it on screen."
At this point Nolan is jotting notes and oding some rough outlines for a third story, but he hasn't yet found anything he's willing to commit to film, despite Warner Bros' eagerness to get a new film underway. "It was obvious when the box office was so big ($530 million domestically) that we had underestimated how ready fans were to reboot the franchise," he said. "The worst thing you could do now that you've gotten the plane back in the air is mess up the landing."
In addition, Nolan recently spoke during a "Dark Knight" Blu-ray event where he said that he would like to shoot an entire film in IMAX. He explained that shooting with an IMAX camera is very expensive and too noisy to capture dialogue. So, all conversations would have to be shot using a 65mm camera and combined in post-production.
"I don't know why they're hard to do," said Nolan. "Maybe there's so much expectation to them. But I wouldn't want to do one if it weren't going to be as good as the first or second. That's not respectful to the fans."
The DVD for "Knight" will be available in stores tomorrow (December 9th) and we already heard that Heath Ledger does not appear in any of the deleted scenes. According to Nolan, it has nothing to do with Ledger's death. "For my past three films, I really haven't had scenes that didn't make it in the movie," he said. "If it's in the final script, I tend put it on screen."
At this point Nolan is jotting notes and oding some rough outlines for a third story, but he hasn't yet found anything he's willing to commit to film, despite Warner Bros' eagerness to get a new film underway. "It was obvious when the box office was so big ($530 million domestically) that we had underestimated how ready fans were to reboot the franchise," he said. "The worst thing you could do now that you've gotten the plane back in the air is mess up the landing."
In addition, Nolan recently spoke during a "Dark Knight" Blu-ray event where he said that he would like to shoot an entire film in IMAX. He explained that shooting with an IMAX camera is very expensive and too noisy to capture dialogue. So, all conversations would have to be shot using a 65mm camera and combined in post-production.
-It certainly seems like his heart is in the right place when it comes to a third film, but he's not wrong about the lofty expectations following Dark Knight. Thoughts?
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Just let it go..These whole Batman thing, it's over..Let it go,Chris and stop talking about it!!
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