
Amid intense internet speculation as to whether there will be another installment in the
Batman franchise,
The Hollywood Reporter dug into the anatomy of the success of
The Dark Knight and talked with producer Chuck Roven about the possibility of a third film.
Warners and Legendary are both interested in doing a third in the series, but all involved say it will be up to Nolan to come to them with a story and a plan.
"There are a lot of us who emotionally would love to do it," Roven says. "But it's really Chris' call. Chris is the kind of filmmaker who just doesn't think about the next movie before he has completely finished the movie he is working on."
For now, Nolan is taking a well-earned vacation.
Says Roven, "When he comes back, we will see how he feels."
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"The Dark Knight" filmed from April 4th 2007 through early or mid or late August 2007. Since movies film all the scenes that take place at one location first, then take off elsewheres. And not all director's will do 37 takes of a guy tossing a booklet into the car seat beside them like David Fincher would & did in "Zodiac" which therefore cuts down the amount of time spent at each location. My guess is that the truck/batpod chase scene was the most costly and lengthy part of the movie, simply cuz of the amount of explosives and effects. Plus different camera angles and set-ups.
Even the original "Saw" was a lot longer, but cut for a reasonable runtime. You'll find that's true with several movies. OR, projects are done consecutively, such as when production wrapped on "No Country For Old Men" in 2006, the Coens began doing the pre-production for "Burn After Reading" and filmed it probably last summer, in June maybe, which would be a month after "No Country..." premeired at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2007 in France, yet it was held from conventional theatres for another 6 months.
It doesn't really matter as long as it happens, and the stars are all cast good, with Nolan. The only thing that is junk is that it won't make as much money as the second film. =(
Like when actors in a series say that they've been living with a character for several years, truth be told, they've only been living with them for the months they spent filming that series all added up to total roughly 2 years or so. Not much more, and sometimes a lot less.
And the official word is that "Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins" is part 1 of a trilogy, otherwise the sub-title wouldn't be included, and it'd just be called "Terminator Salvation." Usually titles like the one they're going with make viewers think that the film will be one of those direct-to-video types no matter how good the quality & content is.
As for Chris, he'll be vacationing for a couple months perhaps. Cuz after "Begins" was released, he went into doing "Prestige" which was released exactly 16 months later. Then he went into pre-pro for "TDK" which started filming on April 4th, 2007 that left him pretty much NO vacation time between "Prestige" & "TDK" except for a couple days or so. Maybe a week.
Whether or not he returns for a third film IMMEDIATELY will also depend on whether or not he'll undertake another film project BEFORE even writing the script for a third film, assuming of course that he intends to, with the help of Goyer too of course.
Either way, he's got plenty of time to think about it.