Despite rumors to the contrary, it looks like Christopher Nolan may now indeed be signed to direct a sequel to The Dark Knight. The newest edition of Production Weekly went out this morning, and they list Nolan as the official director of Batman 3, along with Christian Bale, Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, and Gary Oldman in the cast.
They further confirm some of the rumors which were swirling around earlier this week, listing Batman 3 as slated to go into pre-production in February of 2009. On Wednesday IESB.net attempted to debunk the rumors of the film’s imminent pre-production when they were told by a WB exec that the film “is not in pre-production and is not getting ready to shoot”. That’s not necessarily wrong. It’s not in pre-production and it’s not getting ready to shoot… right now. It will however be in pre-production this coming February.
Production Weekly is not normally prone to exaggeration. In theory, they get all of their information directly from official sources and not internet rumors. Still, it’s somewhat surprising that Warner Bros. would give that information to Production Weekly before they’re able to make a big, splashy announcement themselves. This Batman franchise is sort of a big deal after all.
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Nolan has a huge task ahead of him. How do you one-up a film that is 76 million (give or take) short of the ALL TIME BOX OFFICE RECORD. Not only do you have the pressure of living up to your previous film, one of the stars from that previous film is no longer with us. Which helped fueled the success. But how do you move on from that? Introduce BANE...but make him intelligent with equal strength. Unlike the Batman and Robin version. I'm glad Nolan is back.
Mr. Nolan, i know that your still in seach of a joker to play the role in batman 3. But my huband mark shaver would play an excilent role as to tieing up with heath ledger. He has studied and reanacted every move he made in the film and his acting had exceded all the videos on utube. though he dosnt have one posted but we would if we had the technology for one. but i do promise that if u look at him u will not ever need to look any further.. i promise you that!!
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Despite rumors to the contrary, it looks like Christopher Nolan may now indeed be signed to direct a sequel to The Dark Knight. The newest edition of Production Weekly went out this morning, and they list Nolan as the official director of Batman 3, along with Christian Bale, Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, and Gary Oldman in the cast.
October 4th, 2008 at 21:05
First. Great news.