The Dark Knight Rises

The Dark Knight Rises is the third installation in Christopher Nolan's Batman films. It is said to go into pre-production in 2009. It is expected to be released along with 3 other DC hero films, including a rebooted Superman movie set in the same tone as Nolan's film, in the next 3 years. It will be released July 20, 2012.

Plot
No known details yet.

Cast

 * Christian Bale as Batman/Bruce Wayne
 * Michael Caine as Alfred Pennyworth
 * Gary Oldman as Commissioner James Gordon
 * Morgan Freeman as Lucius Fox
 * Tom Hardy as a currently unconfirmed character

Production
Christopher Nolan only signed for two films but has signed on to direct the third movie. It is said that Nolan is going to start working on it in 2009. Is said to be finished in 2010 or 2011. Christian Bale did say a couple things about not doing the movie without Nolan. But Nolan is doing the movie so Bale is doing it too.

Throwing cold water to the flaming fire, the "Blade Trinity" writer stated that they are all merely rumors stating, "It's all B.S. ALL of it." In fact, he insisted that no official talk has been done between him and Nolan about the future film plan for Batman. "Chris and I haven't even talked about it. He quite understandably is taking a long, long vacation and wants to purge himself," he explained.

Still, he also confessed that they have loosely discussed themes and ideas. "We have mused here and there [but] I mean Chris is pretty much a one movie at a time kind a guy"

"Well ... let me think how to put this. There are two things to be said. One is the emphasis on story. What’s the story? Is there a story that’s going to keep me emotionally invested for the couple of years that it will take to make another one? That’s the overriding question. On a more superficial level, I have to ask the question: How many good third movies in a franchise can people name? [Laughs.] At the same time, in taking on the second one, we had the challenge of trying to make a great second movie, and there haven't been too many of those either. It’s all about the story really. If the story is there, everything is possible. I hope that was a suitably slippery answer."

- Chris Nolan