Oct 7, 2008 by The MovieWeb Team

There Is No Truth to Any Batman 3 Rumors

We all know that The Dark Knight has set a new bar for superhero films, both commercially and artistically, so it only makes sense that everyone on the planet is trying to figure out what is going to happen with the (probably inevitable) sequel. Well, David Goyer recently spoke to MTV to address these rumors. And what did he have to say about the rumor that Johnny Depp, or David Tennant, will play the Riddler? Or that Philip Seymour Hoffman will be the Penguin?

"It's all B.S.," he said. "ALL of it."

Goyer continued, saying "Chris and I haven't even talked about it. He quite understandably is taking a long, long vacation and wants to purge himself." Now while Goyer and Nolan haven't officially bandied ideas about yet, 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 of guy," Goyer said. "I wish I could tell you more. There really isn't anything to tell."

So, this means that, for the present, there is nothing to announce about a third Batman film from Nolan and company. No villains are set. No casting has been set. Nolan hasn't even officially signed on for the third movie yet. Will there be a third movie? Almost certainly, but as of now, nothing has been set in stone.

"If and when [Chris is] ready to talk - we'll talk," Goyer promises.

The Dark Knight Rises comes to theaters July 20th, 2012 and stars Christian Bale, Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Tom Hardy, Anne Hathaway, Marion Cotillard, Joseph Gordon-Levitt. The film is directed by Christopher Nolan.


Sources: MTV’s Splashpage

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Comments (123)

  1. Avrahama

    Damn doesn't the Batman comics have more villians than those top three? How many times can we see the same sh*t regurgitated over and over again??? Who are these die hard fans for Penquin, Joker and Riddler? Frak off will ya! Let's see the Scarecrow.. and not just some cameo appearance.. but a whole movie on this guy. He scares me more than the other villians. How about Johnny Depp as Scarecrow? Please! Or a Punisher vs. Batman crossover. That would be cool! :D

    2 years agoby @avrahamaFlag

  2. internetwin

    i hope mr depp does play the riddler

    2 years agoby @internetwinFlag

  3. Remy72883

    jbenson240 i hope everything you posted about the next batman film is completely false, because it sounds like it would suck, and i have faith that Nolan wouldn't butcher the series with lame story telling, i think your alleged source is messing with you, that is the worst plot idea i have heard thus far

    2 years agoby @remy72883Flag

  4. T.Clark

    Jbenson240, I only read portions of that comment, and there is no truth to any of it, and if there is, it hasn't been confirmed yet. Most of it sounds like the rumors we've been hearing or your wacky fanboy delusions.

    2 years agoby @insertusernamehereFlag

  5. Jbenson240

    *************major spoilers, inside info**********
    everyone must remember two things first off when david nolan made the dark knight he knew he was making a sequal also chris nolan always likes to stay ahead of the audience also this is chris nolan's batman world and not the comic world he is directing so there are some major differences,but because of heath ledgers death some tweaks were made. I received so much good info from my source i don't know where to start but here we go.

    the movie starts about a year after the dark knight, batman is now a wanted criminal because of this wayne has shut down batman temporarily and is working at wayne trying to do good with medical research and not military research.
    during this time period gotham is again in chaos but a controlled chaos led by semi gangster oswald copplepot called the penguin (has not yet been casted) because of his stature. he is a arms dealer and controls all crime but is also very political and yes he will have a weaponized umbrella that we will see throughout the film but only used at the end. here's where it gets interesting

    the riddler is definitely in the film and has already been casted. this was the suprise news i received. chris nolan already snuck him in the last film. He was the man named coleman reese, in the dark knight he finds batmans identity. he was snuck in as a easter egg,get it coleman reese-Mr.Reese-Mysteries. in this film he will call himself the man of mysteries. they will show a backstory about his life being ruined and the loss of his family because of the joker threat.he ends up being a murderer highly sophisticated almost like from the movie saw. he is physically a nobody and will have no physical confrontation with batman in the entire film but he will kind of be batmans mental superior and tormenter since he also know batmans identity. at all his murder scenes he will leave behind riddles that appear to make no sense to the murder till the end. the riddles are not riddles to the murder but to batmans identity as bruce wayne. he signs his riddles with the term the man of mysteries, he gets the name riddler from the joker who he sends letters to at arkham. the joker in this movie receives the riddles signed ? before the murders happen.

    the joker is in this film, originally he was to escape but because of heath's death they found a new way to add him in the film which makes total sense. he will be a patient at arkham and in the "realistic" world that they are trying to create he will wear no makeup and will just have sever scars on his face from my source(paul bettany was offered the role ). once they realize that he is receiving the same riddles before the murders the city sends in Dr Harleen Quinn i hate to say this but my source says sarah michelle geller will take the part. Dr quinn and joker will have a hannibal lector-clarece type relationship at first until the joker pretty much drives her insane but unlike the comics she ends up killing him at the end and takes on his persona.

    also mr freeze will be in the movie as dr.fries, he is being set up for a 4th batman movie along with harley quinnn. Dr fries works for wayne enterprises as a medical scientist but because of his dying wife begins doing cryogenic research on animals, near the end of the film he will end up perfecting it on animals and will end up experimenting on a human, Lucious Fox head of wayne enterpriese, yes unfortunately morgan freeman is killed in this film, dr fries ends up being caught and convicted for the criminally insane and is sent to arkham.

    batman will end up coming out of retirement in the first half of the movie, throughout the beginning he will be bashed by the papers and the news while penguin will kinda be looked upon as a savior who got rid of the freaks. Bruce Wayne understands what he's done from the last 2 movies and will now turn a blind eye to criminals like the penguin since gangsters will just replace gangsters. but when the man of mysteries aka the riddler is committing murders he decides he will try to stop the freaks, also after a couple riddles he learns that they lead to his identity being released. the main plot between him and the riddler is when he starts trying to beat the cops to the riddles and him and the riddler get into a mental cat and mouse game. the mayor of gotham will end up asking the penguin to hunt down the batman, he will offer him immunity for past crimes and also legitimize the penguins business interests.

    the movie will end with batman at arkham trying to get to the joker so he can figure out the riddler, harley quinn will kill the joker before this. the penguins goons find out he is at arkham and try to use excessive force in getting to him but end up damaging arkham to the point everyone is freed from his cell. the mayor of gotham will eventually quarantine the entire island and cut it off, so the fourth film will have batman with mr freeze,harley quinn and all the crazies on the island while the riddler and penguin will be in gotham. the fourth film from what i hear will definitely be the last.

    don't worry robin is not in the movie, bruce wayne will go to a circus show and just mention that little dick grayson glides like a "robin" and also barbara gordon will oversee and here her father and batman speaking to each other and will bring up a curiosity but definitely no batgirl. it seems though there is a chance we may see a batgirl in the fourth film.

    2 years agoby @jbenson240Flag

  6. knobie09

    nolan succeded in making two-face a tragic character. but he's also one of batman's "bob-kane-brand" age-old villains,and he's been around for a long time. they made his story too short. (to my opinion)nolan would have made more with the character,to make the inpresion that he made more than just seek revenge upon those who destroyed his life,but that he also ruined more lives in the process,like he usualy does in the comics.

    3 years agoby @knobie09Flag

  7. Rainy_Dae

    Thanks radimus, but I am a chick lol. One last thing- I won't be mad if two-face is dead, just a bit dissapointed. I *will* be mad if there is a plot splicing like there was between 2 and 3 of the old series and there is no acknowledgment of the murders batman claims to have commited and no bruce wayne personnal conflict over the one he actually did commit. In other words I want the third to pick up more or less where the second left off, with gotham thinking batman is the bad guy.

    3 years agoby @rainy-daeFlag

  8. Radimus-83

    or maybe you're a chick. oh well.

    3 years agoby @radimus-83Flag

  9. Radimus-83

    that was a good comment. what he said!

    3 years agoby @radimus-83Flag

  10. Rainy_Dae

    well sure, he could be dead and I wouldn't hate the movie or anything if he was. I would rather they kill him than throw the lazarus pits into the mess, it wouldn't fit the realism and by the fourth movie they'd have Rachel leading Old Yeller out of those stupid pits... eulogy would be a cover up, everyone but Gordon thinks he blew up in the hospital, gordan needs to alert batman so batman can find harvey, but batman is guilt-ridden over harvey's apparent death and publicly on the run from gordan, making him impossible to reach... most importantly though, is your source. Every other rumor gets the response that nolan goes one movie at a time, so this rigidly defined response seems susp*cious in comparison. The other deaths in the movies (Ra's and Rachel) have been completely unquestionable and it seems odd that he would break that form without conciously wanting to leave the death more open-ended than the others.

    3 years agoby @rainy-daeFlag

  11. Soylent Green:The Devil's Eyes

    I don't care.

    3 years agoby @jcisawesomeFlag

  12. Radimus-83

    i'm taking that as a compliment!

    3 years agoby @radimus-83Flag

  13. Soylent Green:The Devil's Eyes

    NO NO ONE WON HE'S JUST F*CKING ANNOYING

    3 years agoby @jcisawesomeFlag

  14. Diaigma

    Sounds like you won rad...

    3 years agoby @diaigmaFlag

  15. Soylent Green:The Devil's Eyes

    WHAT THE F*CK EVER!!!!!

    JUST SHUT THE F*CK UP. I'M F*CKING DONE WITH YOU.

    3 years agoby @jcisawesomeFlag

  16. Radimus-83

    oh here we go. you're Irish? haha... no no my young fool. you're of Irish desendent, that means you're half/quarter or maybe 2 drops of sperm Irish!! If you were Irish you clearly would not give a f*ck about you're so called views!

    If you can't take a bit of stick then keep you're bullsh*t views to yourself. i'll type and act whatever way i see fit. so back to you're mothers tit we man.

    3 years agoby @radimus-83Flag

  17. Diaigma

    I see what you're saying, Rainy Dae, but Nolan SAID SO HIMSELF, that Two-Face was gone "Toast". Notice the quotations? Should I put in a reference too?
    How about this one

    http://www.zimbio.com/Batman/articles/650/No+Harvey+Dent+Two+Face+Nolan+Third+Batman

    I could list a few others, but what's the point?

    If Two-Face is alive, why did they show freak'en Gordon talking at his Eulogy? Did you not pay attention that last minute of the film, Rainy?

    Now, if they bring back Ra's al Ghul, and dump Harvey in a Lazarus Pit, maybe I'll take that into consideration...but do you REALLY think Nolan will go that route?

    Anyway, Two-Face is dead, in the Nolan version. Nuff said.

    3 years agoby @diaigmaFlag

  18. Soylent Green:The Devil's Eyes

    'Poor "Soylentgreenanalmonkey", take it mommy had no ice-cream. :(
    So you hang out with alot of 13 year old kids who get their dicks sucked? ......nice.

    So far you're comebacks have been "Y'all can go f*ck yorselves".. "go suck a dick and learn to f*cking spell, retard"... "You talk like a f*cking 13 year old"...

    very mature!and you cut me real deep with the last one. :(
    Why don't you put up a decent argument instead of acting like one of the 13 year old boys you like to touch. but to be fair, i don't give a toss what it is. i'm not american."

    Uhmmmmmm no. i do NOT hang out with a bunch of 13 year olds who get their dicks sucked. I'm 17 you f*cking douche. You DO need to learn to spell and you act like a 13 year old are you sure you're 25?? You have to grow up. And i bet you're the toucher of 13 year olds. F*cking f*ggot. you make me ashamed to be irish.

    And before you say ANYTHING, it took me a while to reply because I have a life.

    oh, and f*ck you slysnide or whatever the f*ck your name is. i've been bashed on this site for at least two months because of my views. Just back the f*ck off before you say anyone takes things "too seriously".

    Is that a decent argument for ya radimus????

    3 years agoby @jcisawesomeFlag

  19. Clockworkcookie

    Not really looking forward to a 3rd movie, to be honest. I'm not so keen on being disapointed with sequels and I bet this one will not live up do TDK, if anything, because there's no Joker and no Two Face in it.

    3 years agoby @clockworkcookieFlag

  20. knobie09

    they should at least put zasz,black mask,and deadshot in 4.

    3 years agoby @knobie09Flag

  21. Space101

    With all the money this movie made, for sure there gonna be a 3rd movie. Now having the same cast and crew, that's another story...

    3 years agoby @space101Flag

  22. Rainy_Dae

    Diaigma, ALL of the rumors are BS, no sense excluding the disappointing ones. If there's a great plot with Two-Face alive they won't have any trouble using it. Drewski and I are going to go and sit comfortably on the edge of denial now until we've seen the next movie.

    3 years agoby @rainy-daeFlag

  23. Radimus-83

    yeah i think i agree with comrade, they haven't even a script or a full cast yet. and already i'm tried of hearing about the next Batman movie.

    Bring back Val Kilmer!

    3 years agoby @radimus-83Flag

  24. -comrade-

    Look, the movie's coming, and I guarantee you it will be more top secret than TDK, so we won't know sh*t until they want us to.

    Thing is, I think they've already burned through their hype with casual fans... the third movie won't do as well.

    3 years agoby @taberjohnson18Flag

  25. bendor_heman

    I am what America is and always will be...
    more super awesome than Germany

    3 years agoby @bendor-hemanFlag

  26. bendor_heman

    Batman 3 starring Zombie Heath Ledger...?!??!?!?
    *an immense supply of brains had to be imported from china for this film.

    3 years agoby @bendor-hemanFlag

  27. Saquin Turok 'X'

    That Burn America retard said the same thing about what he said to Radimus to me a few months back, and I'm not American either. So BA, go play with some gunpowder and matches and Burn Yourself.

    3 years agoby @teesterxFlag

  28. T.Clark

    Rad isn't even american...I was going to insert the term "douchebag" after that comment, but ur not worth it seeing as how ur just a fake profile or spammer...

    2-face is dead. What the hell else are they gonna do with him? His story has been told and his purpose has been met. Leave him be...this is the part where i insert "douchebags"

    3 years agoby @insertusernamehereFlag

  29. Burn-America

    radimus your a f*cking retard that represents what america is and will always be.

    3 years agoby @burn-americaFlag

  30. Radimus-83

    ahh i love reading all these silly comments.

    3 years agoby @radimus-83Flag

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