by OL » Sat Sep 20, 2008 12:46 pm
I just have nothing to add. While I am an avid comicbook fan, at this point I really have no idea how they'll go about making a third movie in this series. The Dark Knight ended up being a big surprise for me (before seeing any footage from it, I was expecting it to suck), so I figure I'll just let them surprise me again.
I also don't buy into all this "Johnny Depp as the Riddler/Philip Seymour Hoffman as the Penguin" shit. It's way too early for speculation, so casting ideas like that mean absolutely nothing. Hell, they don't even have a script yet.
As long as I'm here though, I guess I can say what I'd like to see in a Batman movie. Frankly, I think I'm a little tired of superhero movies practically being required to be "epic". Sure, with actual superpowered characters (Superman, the X-Men, etc.) it probably makes sense to have the stories constantly involve world-threatening and/or mass destruction-causing events and characters.
But Batman is great because he doesn't have to bother with that stuff to have a good story. He's human. And above all, he's supposed to be a detective. Honestly, I'd like to see a smaller-scale, smaller-budget version of Batman, something involving him investigating "smaller" crimes. Most of Batman's villains fit most comfortably in stories like that. Murder mysteries and the like. That's the kind of story that you can more easily utilize characters like Scarface or Zsasz or Black Mask. Even the Riddler would make more sense in a story like that.
However, since that's an incredibly unlikely route for them to go with, I'll offer up my idea for a big-scale Batman movie, and it involves only one villain: Bane.
Since Batman is now supposed to be on the run, it would only make sense to send a brilliant tactical hunter after him.
My idea doesn't extend very far beyond that, but with all the trouble Bane gave Batman in his initial appearances in the comics, it wouldn't be hard to develop that into a movie-length story. I'm not saying they should do the whole Knightfall storyline or anything. Just something similar.