Re: The Dark Knight Rises
I think the greatest benefit of having someone like Nolan behind these is his approach of almost ignorning that it's a comic book and all the source materials, and focusing on developing a movie. I feel like comic films go wrong when there's too much focus on the source material and pleasing fans and trying to get as much from the originals as they can, like Spider-Man 3. Nolan seems to have no problem sort of telling fans to ____ off about what they want if he feels it doesn't suit the movie. Hell, he went with Ra's Al Ghul as his main villain for the first film, ignoring all the more marquee villains, but Ra's suited the story better than anyone.