Steve: So now that Batman 3 has a release date, it’s officially time to start trying to guess the plot.
Joe: Riddler right?
That’ll be the bad guy.
Steve: Personally I think Two-Face is coming back.
Riddler will probably be in there too.
Joe: Probably, although now there’s no love interest, so that uncomplicates things.
They’ll have to throw a chick into the mix or do something with Alfred to get Batman pissed.
At least now Batman’s a bad guy in the eyes of the public.
So that’ll at least be a sub plot.
Or maybe they leave it ambiguous, like there’s an explosion and no one knows the deal.
Steve: Well Nolan has said repeatedly that they’re treating this like the end of the story instead of an infinite continuation.
So it’s very possible that Batman could get caught or killed.
You know who should be in it?
Joe: Scott Bakula?
Steve: Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum.
Or Humpty Dumpty.
Who’s another lame Batman villain?
Batzarro.
He definitely needs to fight Batzarro.
Joe: Hmmm, King Tut? Egghead?
Steve: Killer Moth.
Joe: Could redeem Mr. Freeze from Arnold’s shitty performance.
Although, that was more shitty writing.
Steve: I don’t think they’ll do Mr. Freeze.
They’ve been skewing a little less science-fictiony.
They didn’t even let the Joker have his chemicals.
If it gets too comic bookish, i think that’ll be a bad thing for this franchise
Joe: I think they stay simple with the Riddler and maybe Two-Face
Steve: Surely you’re not suggesting they won’t put Crazy Quilt in there?
Joe: Ha.
Maybe they introduce a female bad guy as a quasi-love interest like they did with Catwoman in the second Michael Keaton Batman.
Steve: Well, that could only be Catwoman.
I’m not sure but I think I read somewhere that Catwoman’s presence has been denied.
Oh no wait.
Mr. Freeze.
That’s what it was.
The only thing Nolan’s ever said is “It’s not Mr. Freeze.”
So I guess it could still be Catwoman.
But I doubt it.
Joe: Poison Ivy?
Steve: She was never a love interest.
Joe: Right.
Steve: Plus unless they really change her a lot, she’s gonna be too sci-fi for their tone.
Joe: But, if they did a finale with Catwoman, Batman, Riddler, Two-Face and throw in Scarecrow because Cilian Murphy’s awesome, I think they could do like a 2.5 hour movie that would be not as good as the second one, but still pretty good.
Steve: Clock King.
They need to make him fight Clock King.
You may have something there.
You know what?
They need to just take out every character that’s not Batman, Alfred or a supervillain.
Joe: Gordon?
Steve: Naw, screw Gordon, there’s not enough screen time.
Batman’s too busy punching Clayface.
And Killer Croc.
He could fight Kite Man, the Ventriloquist the Ten Eyed Man.
And The Mad Hatter.
Even the villains’ henchmen should be other villains.
Joe: Wasn’t the Mad Hatter just another version of Scarecrow?
Steve: No.
Mad Hatter was about mind control.
He did it with hats.
Scarecrow was about fear and he did it with gas.
Joe: OF COURSE!
Seriously though, keep it simple and they’ll make three consecutive good super hero movies. That has yet to be done.
Franchises are hitting one, maybe two good movies, but never three in a row.
Steve: Yeah, I think Nolan can do it.
Joe: First two X-Men, First two Spider-Men (really just the second one though), first two 90′s Batman movies, half of the first Fantastic Four movie.
Steve: You mean the last two Spider-Man movies.
First one was ass.
Third one was way better.
Joe: I give the first one a c+ and the last one a B, only the second one was really good
Steve: Agreed.
Well, I would say the third was good.
But just shy of great because of a few major problems.
Joe: I think the third one was too ambitious. Regardless, the one with Doc Oc was the best of the three, and neither of the other two live up to that one.
If the third Batman is any good, it’ll do what no super hero franchise has done so far.
Steve: Yeah, for sure.
I think it’ll be great.
Joe: I hope it will be.
Steve: And I think that because Nolan plays by his own rules.
Which is exactly where things go wrong with most superhero franchises.
Joe: Nolan seems like a really good, creative filmmaker.
I can watch The Prestige over and over forever.
Steve: Usually around the third one they start to try making it more like the comics instead of sticking to the vision of the films.
Which is a failing, I think. If the film worked, stick with what made it good.
