Sure buddy. Listen if cheesy serials, a camp (though brilliant) TV show, and Joel Schumacher didn't kill the possibility of more filmed Batman, I don't think that they'll let it die after one of the most critically and financially successful films of all time. It just may be that you and Nolan aren't involved.

And maybe that's a good thing, go out on top. Tim Burton did well for a couple, Nolan did well for a couple, let's give it to some new blood. Batman is bigger than you my friend.

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Why can't we just continue that: flash forward a few years, and -- since he's already dead -- give Two-Face's plastic surgery/rehab subplot to Joker, thereby allowing the role to be recast? Fix the cheeks, give him a haircut, take off the paint, and watch as Bruce Wayne attempts to heal himself by getting Joker out of Arkham and into the world, only to see it all go up in flames. That's an appropriately sad and serious manner in which to continue the series, no?

And who to pick up the role? I wanna say Ed Norton, who sort of looks older/normal enough to where it'd be weird/exciting to see him Joker out, but maybe he's not right. Weird to say, but he might not take the role seriously enough (I thought that Bruce Banner was a little wink-y), and he might be a little too dra-MA-tic about the Joker-y stuff unless they wrote it as something more regal, less Sid Viscious-ish (which is sort of how it is in TDKR)... Any other thoughts?

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