What Lies Beyond 'The Dark Knight Rises'

Fan-made poster by Guy Bourraine, Jr   

Thanks to Forever Geek for the heads up about these images. Guy Bourraine, Jr. created these posters for a live-action Batman Beyond  film that will probably never be made. However, as Forever Geek points out, Warner Bros. has committed to re-booting the Batman franchise once the Christopher Nolan-helmed trilogy is complete - of course the last installment is The Dark Knight Rises, which is opening this summer. Granted, it might be a tad early to speculate about what the next film version of Batman will be, but what the hell - it's fun.

Full disclosure here- I'm not very familiar with the DC Animated Universe, which the Batman Beyond TV series was a part of, but from what I've seen, I think the story would translate quite well into a live action movie.
Batman Beyond (known as Batman of the Future in Europe, Australia, Japan, and Mexico) is an American animated television series created by Warner Bros. Animation in collaboration with DC Comics as a continuation of the Batman legacy. Depicting the teenager Terry McGinnis as a new Batman in a futuristic Gotham City under the tutelage of an elderly Bruce Wayne, the series began airing on January 10, 1999, and ended its run on December 18, 2001. (from Wikipedia)



Fan-made poster by Guy Bourraine, Jr   
Of course, Batman Beyond is not the direction Warner Bros. will take the Bat franchise, but that leads into the question - What are WB's plans for the post-Nolan Dark Knight? Although Nolan will be involved in future Bat films, I think it's safe to assume they won't resemble the current trilogy. Do you think WB will follow Sony's Spider-Man strategy and re-tell the origin story and pretend the first trilogy never happened, or do they try to maintain some connection to the Gotham that Nolan created in his films? I try to keep up with the latest rumors surrounding the future of Batman films, but if you've read any articles that might offer clues as to the direction WB is headed, I'd love to hear about them.
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Posted by Matthew Killorin at 1/05/2012 02:40:00 AM Labels: , , , , , , , ,

2 comments:

Vann Emmanuel Vicente said...

Seems interesting. Obviously, Nolan will do a spot-up job with the last film in this trilogy; but if he's going to write (or direct) the next series then it'd probably be possible to link it to this one. Maybe they could make a brand new Batman, or they could finally include Robin into the picture or something. Either way, it'd probably be pretty great if it's done by Nolan.

Hope you don't mind shameless promotion, but here's a post I recently made about Nolan's films. http://moviecritical.blogspot.com/2012/01/directors-order-christopher-nolan.html

January 5, 2012 8:37 AM
Matthew Killorin said...

Thanks for the great comment, Vann. I liked your list of Nolan films. Interesting picks there.

January 5, 2012 4:00 PM

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