SDCC: New 'Batman' Film to Begin Shooting Next Year!?
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This just in from The Book of Eli panel at Comic Con: Gary Oldman, who of course plays Commissioner Gordon in the latest series of Batman films from Christopher Nolan, has announced that the next Batman movie will begin shooting next year with a potential release date of 2011. Since these actors can never actually officially go on the record, Oldman followed up that news with the line "... but don't quote me on that." Thus, we're now left wondering whether he was guessing when he threw out a production start date of 2010, or if he really was telling the truth -- that he's been contacted, that they're currently ironing out a preliminary schedule behind the scenes and that Christopher Nolan's third Batman movie will indeed go in front of cameras next year at some point.
Unless we're talking really late in 2010 (like fall, winter), then we can't imagine when Nolan would have the time to begin shooting in 2010, especially since he just started production on his sci-fi flick Inception starring Leonardo DiCaprio, which will arrive in theaters on July 16, 2010. One imagines Nolan will be busy in post-production on that sucker through at least the beginning of 2010, followed by press junkets for Inception and all that jazz. So when, exactly, would he be shooting Batman 3?
Unless he won't be directing Batman 3?
Stay tuned for more details as they develop from The Con -- and check out all our Con coverage right here.
Erik Davis and Todd Gilchrist contributed to this report
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
7-24-2009 @ 2:59PM
Matt said...
pre production in the spring of 2010 and shooting in summer/ fall. I think it could be ready. He did make the prestige in between batmans with a lot of time to spare didn't he?
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7-24-2009 @ 3:06PM
TheDarkKnight said...
Oh goody I guess we won't have to wait a decade to see it.
Batman Begins and The Dark Knight were also three years apart so maybe this shouldn't be all that surprising.
I can't wait to see what else Nolan has up his sleeve though at this rate everybody we know will be dead.
Nolan is like a mad genius. He can create something so beautiful and then meticulously destroys it in front of your eyes and your guilty of not only looking but enjoying it.
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7-24-2009 @ 4:49PM
Kyle said...
i dont believe this, but if to be true then it should be show villians having resemblences and a moral of redemption.
there should be more stuff added that we haven't seen before: bruce giving up being batman at his parents cemetery, gordon retiring after the mobs end, and military police trying to end the petition.
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riddler
black mask
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7-24-2009 @ 7:13PM
mrardente said...
Nolan will have the hardest task ever trying to top the dark knight.(I think he can do it) How do you follow up a movie that makes $1 billion? Johnny Depp is the only person that can bring that much hype to a movie. But which villain will he play?
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7-24-2009 @ 8:36PM
gs942002 said...
well IF johnny depp is in it, then he will MOST LIKELY play the riddler. although that might not be a good idea...
7-24-2009 @ 8:37PM
mezzaninex said...
I still think The Dark Knight is overrated, and part of its success is due to the death of handsome man Heath Ledger. The third one will not be as successful money-wise (unless Christian Bale dies or something) but I think a better movie could be made. As long as Black Mask isn't the villain, he's so C-list.
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