save our souls and don't make a TDK sequel

[Lapis Exilis]

From the article:​

The difference here, of course, being that even before Batman Begins was released the plotline for The Dark Knight was known. In May of 2005, prior to the release of Batman Begins, David Goyer was quoted saying the following:

"The next one would have Batman enlisting the aid of Gordon and Dent in bringing down the Joker... but not killing him, which is a mistake they made in the first one... In the third, the Joker would go on trial, scarring Dent in the process."

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Boom! You read that? Now do you see why the end of The Dark Knight is the way it is? Ledger's death is going to be a major factor in the third film.

Um, no, it won't - Nolan later said that they changed the ending of Goyer's original story because they had to in order to tell the story they were telling in TDK. The ending of TDK was not, as the author implies, due to Ledger's death.​

While he's got a point about threquels, which so far have mostly sucked, someone's got to figure out one day how to make a decent trilogy. It seems highly unlikely that Nolan will turn down the bajillion dollar offer I'm sure Warners is currently making to him - though you never know, I suppose. I have no problem with leaving the story right where it is, and I really have no desire to see a movie that ends like Batman '89 with a heroic Batman standing on a building staring at the bat-signal. But there is a third act waiting to be told to this particular story. The fact that it hasn't been written yet doesn't change the fact that it's out there lurking in the shadows. It's just my hunch, but Nolan strikes me as a storyteller, and that story's likely to dog him until it gets put to film.​

And then there is the bajillion dollars...

But what do I know? Maybe he'll be happy to go out on top.​

 

[Jax]

The story is not finished and so what if the 3rd movie is not on the same level as TDK, there is no reason a 3rd film cannot be good or great on its own merit.

IMO the 3rd Batman movie will be better than BB but behind TDK though it will be a good flick with a nice resolution to the trilogy.

 

[Jack Bauer]

If the guy truely feels that they shouldn't make a third one then he can be proactive and not see the damn thing. The rest of us who want a third one can go see it. Enough! with the whining.

 

[RandyS]

If the guy truely feels that they shouldn't make a third one then he can be proactive and not see the damn thing. The rest of us who want a third one can go see it. Enough! with the whining.

Agreed.

 

[Pat]

What pretentious garbage. The new type of fanboy, "the don't ruin a good thing by keeping it going" kind, always in fear of trilogies because they can't get past the fucking Ewok thing (or now the Brett Ratner thing). Grow-up. It's all business. And even the blogger admits the franchise isn't ending, and it really won't end until it stops making money. As for "...shut the hell up with these stupid rumors", how about "shut the hell up with this trilogy/franchise doomsayer crap"? Rumors always abound regarding sequels to hit franchise films. Get fucking used to it.

Spot on.