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I dunno. despite the man-bat being an interesting comic character and a reversed reflection of the main character, it's do highly doubtful Nolan and team will go down that route. And, frankly, I would agree: unlike every other single DC character, the Batman is based on an at-least-in-theory realistic form of fiction, i.e. detective pulp, so, to introduce sci-fi elements (other than the very subtle tech & gear sci-fi) would make the movie depart heavily from the previous two. I mean, Ra's al Gul was not immortal, the Joker did not have a bleached skin and natural green hair. I doubt a splice mutant would be their choice.
A movie in which the Batman is forced to deal with a lawless Gotham, a la Earthquake-No Man's Land-Dark Knight Returns issue 4, as suggested above more than once, would indeed make a very interesting movie which would lead the character into new directions, exploiting the human drama angle (and, which would be a surprise turn, could totally forgo the need for a costumed villain as antagonist), but could end up being thematically detached from the previous two. That can be good or bad (the later being in the case of the film-makers attempting to make a close-ended trilogy, which is the fad in the industry now, it seems).
If we want to maintain the "crime drama" theme from TDK, my choices for villains would be Cat-woman (coll roof-top chases, and a hint of sex appeal, which was absent, IMHO, in BB and TDK), the Riddler (a underused character that would fit perfectly into a realistic version of Batman, as a calculating, rational criminal mastermind who pulls the strings from the backstage, pitting mobsters against each other, fooling the cops, and manipulating the Batman, who, in turn, would have a great chance to finally do serious detective work. we would need to drop the green suit and mask, obviously), and Pinguin as well (the latter mostly as a support character, a mobster who never leaves his restaurant and who hates the stupid nickname people only call him by to his back, at the risk or having a few bones broken, but could double as Batman's informant, after a nice amount of ass-whooping).
But let's be honest about this. We can speculate which villains would appear in the next, now-inevitable-with-all-those-box-office-numbers third Nolan Batman, until we give Haus nightmares, but they will NEVER be as good as the Joker was in this film, and we better accept that. |
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