Could One Of These Be The Title Of Batman 3?

"Rise of Arkham" and "Siege of Gotham" are pretty cool. for the game!

Arkham City is a sweet name. It just feels like the scale would be much grander and things would be awesomely chaotic.
As for the movie, I kind of doubt the game and movie will tie in at all. The Asylum hasn't been emphasized much in the movies. The Joker is presumably at Arkham. They're not recasting the Joker and you can't do an Arkham story without him.
As for The Dark Knight Returns, to me it sounds to much like an adaptation of the graphic novel. General audiences wouldn't care, but I just don't think Nolan would do it.

SHADOW OF THE BAT!!!

And NORTON better be in AVENGERS or they can stuff it up their collective holes! : P

If Robins or nightwing isn't in the game Im going to Be Seriously mad, I know wishing for a co op mode is far fetched but come on?

The Third Batman from Nolan The third movie curse will kick In I can feel the Third nolan Batman Bombing.

As For the Avengers they've seriously messed things up, I mean Come On Nortons not totally greedy, I would say If Marvel prez hadn't of jumped the ship so Soon Norton would have done it for little of nothing He is a talented actor and did a FN awesome job with the hulk, I Just hope one day I can see a Edward Norton Cut of the Incredible Hulk Film

Arkham Asylum was a great game all the way up until the final boss battle. That just didn't fit with the rest of the game. Hopefully they will remedy that in the sequel. I'm also excited they are using Mr. Freeze. Love the character. From the teaser we've seen previously, it looks like the inmates break out and overrun Gotham. So I would imagine the feel will probably be like Batman in GTA. You can roam and do side missions all over the city, not just on the asylum grounds. Sounds pretty amazing. Can't wait!

LEE: You're back! :D Oh, and [frick] Norton!

@ArrionShadow

Now that he doesn't have Hulk he's he's walking and trying to find another job................with no luck

That Wheresbrucewayne domain is probally for that Grant Morrison run

Ha ha ha Tea@!
Off-white! Oh,
Gawd Nooooo!!!!

for gods sake stop with the recasting, anil! i've cut and pasted the same anti-reboot post three times and you still keep at it with this idiot "comic-booky Batman" idea. i'm right about this and you need to face it. if bale is willing to do JL they need to LEAVE IT ALONE.

i love reading the stuff with everyone up in arms about ed norton and the hulk... as if it MATTERS to the world of non-comic-reading ticket-buyers! (the second p.o.s. hulk movie made 265mil... more than the first hulk's 245mil but hardly a landslide.)

but that's Marvel money. DC deals in real money.

"begins" made 372 million, and TDK has made OVER A BILLION DOLLARS... SO FAR! why the !@#$%^& would DC !@#$%^& with that kind of success????? people LIKE this batman... why the !@#$%^& do you want them to screw it up? shall we get schumacher to direct? shall we get a cgi gleek and scooby-doo in there too? just stfu and leave the world's favorite CBM character ALONE!!!

HERE is the CORRECT opinion, everybody. (i wrote this on the joe dante page the other day)

"To conclude... a reboot would be a copout. changing the whole world's favorite CBM character to make it easier to meld the universes would be cowardly and pandering. a versatile director could make a better movie by EMBRACING the variety of styles and showcasing the unique environment from which each character has sprung, and a smart writer will craft a story that enables and REQUIRES each individual hero to do what he or she does best. Clark & Diana do the brawling, with HIM repping in the Oval Office and HER talking to the UN. Hal will find historical connections in the Book of Oa and enlist aid from other planets, while Arthur's troops prevent the enemy from taking refuge in the sea...

... and Bruce will be the DETECTIVE: on the ground, shaking down thugs and sifting through the muck to uncover corruption, deception and "enemies in high places," including the key piece of data that provides the key to victory. Batman was born in the dark and he has to LIVE in the dark, no matter what movie he's in.

If the characters are homogenized just so they can all look right in a Times Square slugfest, the power of the whole JLA concept will be diminished and we'll just have another X-Men movie. And i think we've ALL had enough of those!"

get it? the beauty of the jla as opposed to other teams (even, imho, the Avengers... but I am an admitted DC guy so take that as you will) is that they don't just have different POWERS, or even that they have different PERSONALITIES. it's that they THRIVE IN DIFFERENT SETTINGS AND DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENTS! leave batman on the ground in a gritty urban setting like bangkok or rio or new york and let him do what he does best.

and go find a superfriends torrent if you wanna see happy-Bats, ok?

Interesting article - and responses. Arkham Asylum was a 10/10 game and it sounds like the sequel will go for 15/10.
Now, let's talk the films :-D

@Anil Rickly - The Superman reboot will not be leading into a JLA film as Nolan has already said. It's gonna be a film/franchise based solely on Superman, so even WHEN they reboot Batman, it will have nothing to do with the upcoming Superman film, and they won't have two different Superman films running concurrently in order to have a JLA film. As Nolan said in the Empire interview, Marvel are going the Avengers route, merging several characters etc. and maybe it will work for them, but Nolan is keeping Superman a solo effort. So no JLA film in the forseeable future.

@ Twilight - Nolan has said several times that he finds it tricky fitting a relatively normal character like the Penguin into the Batman universe they've created, so I find it highly unlikely you would get Bane in it. I like the title Knightfall though :)

Now, I'm not writing this to try and sound "clever", but I've read quite a lot of Nolan interviews regarding Batman, and, lately, Superman, and he always mentions things of this nature.

@ Intruder - I'm with you, Shadow of the Bat would be a great title. I actually heard that title getting tossed about not long after The Dark Knight came out.

And yes, it is s**tty of Marvel to get rid of Norton like that. Let's form our own Avenger Initiative and go "persuade" Marvel to reconsider this! lmao! :)

wait ...

WHAT? GL's gloves are off-white?!?!?!?!?!? AND CGI!?!?!?! AND BLAKE NOT-SO-LIVELY IS THE LOVELESS INTEREST ?!?!?!?

FCUK THAT MOVIE AND FCUK DC!!!!

BOYCOTT ALL DC MOVIES FOR LIFE!!!!!

LMFAO

@ DDD - I enjoy reading both. I kind of lean to the Marvel side more, but that is just my taste. I prefer my heroes more flawed and with real life issues. I still enjoy reading DC (though if not for Blackest Night they may have lost me). I'm with you on the Batman thing. He is and has always been my favorite character. Having said that, I HATE WHAT THEY ARE DOING WITH THE BAT BOOKS! I like Dick Grayson ... as NIGHTWING! There will always only be one Batman and his name is Bruce "Fcuk You Up" Wayne! Accept no substitutes!

The problem I find with DC movies is that there aren't enough of them. They are too few in between and the only good ones as of late are the Bat movies. If not for that, we would only have the Vertigo movies. I love what direction Marvel has taken their movies and any DC fans that say they don't want DC to do the same with their character is LYING THEIR ARCES OFF!!!

COME ON DC, GET WITH THE EFING PROGRAM!!!

@anil ... i am pretty chill actually, but thanks for the reply. now that there's a dialogue going i can relax lol...

my issue is with the reboot idea in general. reboot reboot, reboot. the stupid Hulk movies showed that you can redefine a character and franchise mid-stream without rebooting, and we saw styles change in comics too until the world went all reboot-happy in the 90's and especially the 2000's.

of course nolan is done with batman after 3... and he's already said that he's keeping superman in a distinct universe. so what? if DC/WB gets what they REALLY want, Nolan will be right next to Johns godfathering the whole shebang for the next 10 years! and why would they wanna blow 200 million dollars just to redefine the batman character so he can fit into JLA? people LOVE Nolan's Batman, and JLA is an iffy enterprise and a financial gamble. Don't you think WB/DC would think it makes more sense not to eff with the most successful CBM movie character EVER?

look, if you're right you're right! (but i hope you're wrong lol!)

and anil... you should be the one to relax a bit. adding smileys and other little cutesy stuff to your comments doesn't disguise the fact that they're loaded with insults.

sure i tossed in a "stfu" at the end, but i didn't call you a clown, a buffoon or an... asshat? wtf is that anyway? i said your idea was dumb, not you personally. sheesh.

@Arrion, the third movie in a series doesn't always bomb. Look at Revenge of the Sith. It was crap, but compared to the other two it was gold. My best example is 'The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly'. One of the best Westerns ever, and a dang good movie with an amazing three way showdown. How about 'Return of the King'? The problem with most third movies being crappy is generally because they have different directors, except Sam Raimi, and they are trying to bleed the franchise. THere are plenty of great Batman stories, and I'm pretty dang sure Nolan is better than Shumacher and won't eff it up. Have a little faith.

Rise of Arkham.