Why the Batman Movie Franchise Shouldn't Have a Reboot

This will be the end of Nolan's Batman arc...yes. But with Nolan now producing a Superman reboot, I'm hoping that he will be able to carry "his" Batman into a team-up style movie, whether that be Batman/Superman or even better a Justice League film.

I really hope they don't reboot or even re-imagine the character. I think they can make this work. Especially since Nolan is involved in more than one franchise now.

@ecksmanfan: As much as I would love to see that, Nolan has alrady made clear that he sees them both in their own universe, not together.

@TheUnkown: That's a wide range, either way, by then a new generation of CMB fans will need a reboot for sure....unless they do their homework and heek up with the series, ha. Bond did petty well that way.

Well If there's a new director after Nolan I doubt all of the cast will stay especially Christian bale , so it will technically be a reboot.

i don't even know why people are still talking about a unified JLA movie. Whether or not Nolan's Batman will fit into a unified JLA movie is a pointless debate now. Even if they DID reboot Batman, Nolan is now in control of Superman, and he said Supes would take place in his own world with no other heroes. (sound familiar?)

so even if they DO reboot Batman, now we have the same exact problem all over again with Superman.

I've said it before, and i'll say it again. Nolan is not the man for the job, simply because he doesn't want to unify the heroes. To me, that means they got the wrong guy...

let him go make more movies like Inception or something. leave the CBM's to someone else for god's sake.

@Mike- I'm pretty sure it's just to piss you off. It seems to be working...=>

i hope that there wont be another reboot, unless it was in a five or six year wait. i dont think that a reboot will be nearly as good as this franchise.

I think the the Nolan Batman could work outside the "real world setting". As much as I love Batman separate from the superpowered world, if you treat Superman, in The Man Of Steel as a first contact with aliens type scenario then all of the world (including Batman)would be in an adjustment stage. Same thing goes for Green Lantern, Hal Jordan gets the gift of a ring from another world and has to learn how to deal with this new power, trains on Oa and returns to the "real world". Batman could totally work in a world with SuperHeroes if done right, it just can't be treated as "Oh yeah, superpowers exist"

@Anil Rickly, I totally agree with you, I was more or less just trying to figure out how it would work if WB made the decision to go in that direction. Also it looks as if this is still "Year One" or "Year Two" of Batmans career....nevermind I can't agrue on something that I agree with you on haha, it's just that I think Batman is still learning all of his "tricks of the trade"

@odie00, I've always wanted to see Batman ripped straight from the Neil Adams and Jim Aparo pages along with all his rogues and a Robin done right (even though I'm more of a fan of a Batman without a Robin). A Justice League movie with the "Big Three" would be awesome but you're right, if they want Batman, they're gonna have to wait. If not, alude to the fact that he exists but just have all the "superpowered" characters in The League?

Hey, give Batman a chance, he is just getting started!

He hasn't yet reached the "dark Night" stage where "collateral damage" is acceptable.

I see him and "The Punisher" in Marvel as similar characters, albeit very different back stories.

The world that Mr. Nolan has created is perhaps one of the best ever for a DC hero. Real world, real acting (no matter Bale's personal issues) etc. Believable, etc.

I think there is a big "push" from fans to do what Marvel/Disney has done and create a "Universe" for DC on the Big Screen.

Frankly that has vnever really been a DC "thing.

BUT it has always been an intrinsic Lee/Kirby Marvel constant, starting with the "Fantastic 4"

The stories featured not only "reflective moments" from previous issues, but cross overs as well. Really helped sales and continuity.

DC was always more "separate (i.e. several names for NYC "Gotham, Metropolis, etc.) and really treated JLA as an almost separate entity with little "tie-in" to the ongoing issues of DC comics.

DC were character essays, Marvel was a team approach.

To really "work" each of the DC heroes needs to be "on their own" the back stories are more "loner" type of people who single handed defeat bad guy(s).

Marvel adopted the "team approach" in 1963 with the Fantastic Four (ironically based on the JLA success at NC / DC).

Thing was, Stan and Jack stuck with the "Universe" and kept expanding it,i.e. Avengers, until the point where they had cross over after cross over. Titles like Marvel Team Up, Defenders, Invaders, Avengers East, West, X-Men, yada, yada.

Marvel characters seem to thrive on the comradery, DC (with the exception of JLA) seem to be more of central character themed.

In Marvel, even the "bad guys" switch nemesis(s). Doom fights Mr. Fantastic one minute, Iron Man the next.

That is what made Marvel work.

That is what made DC work.

don't mess with what works!

I wouldn't mind a reboot, maybe it could be accurate to the comics....just sayin'.