Re: The Dark Knight Rises
That's why I have no worries about TDKR only being what Nolan wants it to, he does great with this franchise, and WB is well aware of his enthusiasm and all, if they let him ride out the energy, we're going to get a great movie, if they start tampering with his work, they'll ____ it up and they know it.
yes yes!!! Not to tarnish this thread with word of the old Batman films, but when I was younger that was half of the excitement. Waiting to see what new tricks Batman has with the Batmobile, Batwing, and Batboat. It was very cool to see the Batpod in TDK, but I was hoping for something else to happen too. I really think a Batwing isn't plausible in these films, but I'd definitely be down for a newly designed Batmobile and cycle.
I don't think a plane would be farfetched, but, thus far, there hasn't really been situation calling for it. All of the battles have been very small scale. I think the memory cloth cape will be the extent of Batman flying, and I kind of prefer that, it's more like he's a creature flying than just a guy in a vehicle.
Oh, I have no doubt that we will see a redesinged batmobile, batpod, and not to mention a new batsuit. We have toy sales to think about after all.
I really don't think the TDK suit was driven by toys. Take a look at the TDK toys, the majority of the kids line didn't even resemble the film costume so Mattel can make up whatever it wants for toys and sell them like they always have for Batman, even going back to the '89 film, Batman movie figures have usually been farfetched designs with nothing tied to the movie.
I'd be surprised to see a new suit, new gadgets for it sure, but the TDK suit was a Bale/Batman need, in the film and in reality, the Begins suit looked nice but wasn't functional. We might see a more Begins style cape perhaps, get that majestic look back, but I think this suit's going to stay.
What will be interesting is now Lucious Fox is fully aware of Bruce being Batman, where in the first film there was a wink and a guarded distance.
Now that Lucious is knowingly working on special projects rather than combing through Wayne Enterprise corporate assets I expect more than just a new suit.
That is, of course, if the law doesn't finally go after Bruce and company. Someone figured Bruce out in TDK, I'd almost be disappointed if it didn't happen on a large scale in the next film.
I don't get this statement, you talk about Fox as if TDK never happened. We've seen what Fox is like knowing Wayne is Batman, if WE is already making it or has it, he gives it to him, and if not, he gets it made, like the new suit, the Batpod which wasn't part of the Tumbler's original design, or the sonar technology.
What we haven't seen and probably will see is a strained relationship, and perhaps Wayne having to be more self relient and Fox now wanting to be involved.
While the new things are exiting to think about, right now, I'm really eager to hear that Bale, Oldman, Caine and Freeman will be back and that Zimmer and Newton-Howard will be doing the score once again.
