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Re: Christopher Nolan's Inception (2010)
ComingSoon.net reports thatChristopher Nolan has set up his next project with Warner Bros., an original screenplay he wrote called Inception. The "Dark Knight" director hopes to shoot the sci-fi action film in the summer for a release during summer 2010.
Inception is described as "a contemporary sci-fi actioner set within the architecture of the mind."
This pushes back any potential filming on a third Batman film, but three years -- and The Prestige -- passed between Batman Begins and The Dark Knight. Nolan has also long been attached to direct a big-screen adaptation of the British TV series "The Prisoner" for producer Scott Stuber at Universal.
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This is exciting news. I was a fan of Nolan's since Memento (lot a lot of us I would guess), and just as I was excited to see him take on the new Batman franchise, I was hoping he wouldn't pull a Sam Raimi and let it otherwise derail the trajectory of his career. My hopes were met when he released The Prestige, which was phenomenal. Aside from directing, the guy's a helluva writer, especially with his brother Jonah in the mix. I'm looking forward to this one.
And then bring on more Batman. 
Re: Christopher Nolan's Inception (2010)
I don't want to wait another 3 years after this comes out for "Batman Begins 3"... It's a pity Nolan can't wait until after he does a few more, before he does this.
Christian Bale isn't a twenty-year old... time will limit the series.
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Time should limit the series. The Batman of the comics isn't in his twenties either. Once Nolan tells his story, the series should end. Quite honestly, I could see the argument for the series ending after The Dark Knight. If he does choose to continue and has a good enough story, then I can't wait for his third entry. But Batman ages and especially after the events of The Dark Knight, that should be reflected. How about we do one more proper and then take a long, long time off. Then Nolan and Bale can regroup for The Dark Knight Returns someday.
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I agree 100% and that's what scares me. If they cared about artistic integrity, they would have continued supporting the bold moves Tim Burton was making for the original series with Batman Returns, instead of cowtowing to parent groups and action figure sales. They dropped the ball once, hard, which makes me believe somewhere deep down that they'll try and play by Nolan's rules as long as possible. He not only delivers them highly profitable commercial product, he's redefined the genre by making the art of the superhero movie both critically viable and geared towards a serious, adult audience. There'd be no Watchmen without The Dark Knight.
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Re: Christopher Nolan's Inception (2010)
I agree 100% and that's what scares me. If they cared about artistic integrity, they would have continued supporting the bold moves Tim Burton was making for the original series with Batman Returns, instead of cowtowing to parent groups and action figure sales. They dropped the ball once, hard, which makes me believe somewhere deep down that they'll try and play by Nolan's rules as long as possible. He not only delivers them highly profitable commercial product, he's redefined the genre by making the art of the superhero movie both critically viable and geared towards a serious, adult audience. There'd be no Watchmen without The Dark Knight.
Watchmen was going to come out anyway. It was in production at the same time TDK was in production. Watchmen is more the product of Batman Begins and 300's success than TDK's.
Re: Christopher Nolan's Inception (2010)
I agree 100% and that's what scares me. If they cared about artistic integrity, they would have continued supporting the bold moves Tim Burton was making for the original series with Batman Returns, instead of cowtowing to parent groups and action figure sales. They dropped the ball once, hard, which makes me believe somewhere deep down that they'll try and play by Nolan's rules as long as possible. He not only delivers them highly profitable commercial product, he's redefined the genre by making the art of the superhero movie both critically viable and geared towards a serious, adult audience. There'd be no Watchmen without The Dark Knight.
Yeah, but Batman Forever was very profitable, and a bigger success than Batman Returns, which in the studio's eyes proved that successful Batman films can be done with other directors and other stars. They just felt it was Batman & Robin that was the misstep.
I think they feel the same way. In a perfect world, imo, there never would've been Nolan's films. Burton would've kept making darker and darker more sinister flicks, and it would've been beautiful. Even now, Returns is the darkest it's ever been.
The studios imo will look at it as "worst case scenario... we bring back Nolan again one day". But Chris Nolan & Christian Bale, do not dictate the Batman franchise with Warner Bros. and despite what diehard fans think - neither do they.
Let's just all hope if the studio balks at Nolan's "Axl-esque timetable" for films, they'll give Burton a call, instead of doing something lame like hiring McG or some shit.
- tejastech08
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Axl,
There's two kinds of dark. There's freakshow dark and there's realistic dark. Both are great, but I'm glad we got a chance to see Nolan's version of dark instead of just the freakshow dark of Burton. It sucks that we had to put up with BF and B&R in order to get Nolan's version, but nonetheless I'm glad we got it. For instance, I think Nolan's Joker is more sinister than Penguin and Catwoman were in Batman Returns. Burton turned them both into victims of the freakshow, which actually creates sympathy for the characters compared to Nolan's Joker, which you feel zero sympathy for...he's evil and that's really all there is to it.
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I don't know if you guys know, but Burton was a producer on "Batman Forever" and was greatly involved in Pre-Production.
- tejastech08
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Re: Christopher Nolan's Inception (2010)
I don't know if you guys know, but Burton was a producer on "Batman Forever" and was greatly involved in Pre-Production.
Yes, I knew that. What does that have to do with what was actually put on screen? The studio largely dictated what went on with that movie. Meanwhile, like I said regarding Burton's brand of darkness, I wouldn't call it sinister as Axlin08 did. I think there's certainly a camp element in his Batman movies (and all of his movies for that matter), which would partially explain why he was OK with Batman Forever having quite a bit of camp involved.
