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Posted: Tue, 9th Dec 2008 23:29 Post subject: Nolan Plans 'Dark Knight' Sequel, Wants to Film All in IMAX!

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Christopher Nolan Starting to Plan 'The Dark Knight' Sequel
Wants to Shoot it Entirely in IMAX

With The Dark Knight arriving on DVD today, director Christopher Nolan has been making the rounds of interviews and of course, everyone wants to know about the third film.

Slash Film reports that Nolan is interested in filming the entire third film in IMAX after having success with several sequences shot that way for the current feature. He speculated that a work around to the noisiness of the IMAX cameras would be to shoot the action in IMAX and the dialogue-driven scenes with a 65mm camera.

Nolan also told USA Today that he has been “jotting notes and doing some rough outlines” for a third story. Obviously, Warner will happily green light a third installment just as soon as there’s a story that captivates the director’s mind.

“It was obvious when the box office was so big ($530 million domestically) that we had underestimated how ready fans were to reboot the franchise,” he said. “The worst thing you could do now that you’ve gotten the plane back in the air is mess up the landing.”

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Posted: Tue, 9th Dec 2008 23:33 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

Atleast 3 years away. But it's great to hear that he's actually thinking about material for a sequal and not just whether he wants to do one or not. 8 out of 10 dentists prefer zipfero to competing brands(fraich3 and Mutantius)!

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Posted: Tue, 9th Dec 2008 23:34 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

With such box office numbers? It was obvious! "Only one country can destroy NATO in 40 minutes - it's Russia"

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Posted: Tue, 9th Dec 2008 23:38 Post subject:

Vodka-Redbull wrote:

With such box office numbers? It was obvious!

It was obvious there would be a sequel it wasn't obvious that Nolan would direct it, as only the main actors are contracted for 3 movies, Nolan isn't Smile

But he obviously loves the batman universe, thankfully ;D

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Posted: Tue, 9th Dec 2008 23:42 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

yea i'm for it as long as it's him doing it though, i still would have loved to see aronofsky's vision for begins

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Posted: Tue, 9th Dec 2008 23:46 Post subject:

shole wrote:

yea
i'm for it as long as it's him doing it
though, i still would have loved to see aronofsky's vision for begins

You must be the only one, then. He has no thriller/action experience and to be frank I consider Nolan a much more able director in that genre.

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Posted: Wed, 10th Dec 2008 00:07 Post subject:

The original source says the following:

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Nolan says he is jotting notes and doing some rough outlines for a third story, but he hasn't yet found anything he's willing to commit to film, despite Warner Bros.' eagerness to get a new film underway.

He is looking into it but not fully convinced yet. Let's hope for the best Very Happy

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Posted: Wed, 10th Dec 2008 00:25 Post subject:

zipfero wrote:

I consider Nolan a much more able director in that genre.

that's the point - it's likely his would have been radically different
more about emotion and internal conflicts that force him to become this man bat

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Posted: Wed, 10th Dec 2008 00:40 Post subject:

shole wrote:

zipfero wrote:

I consider Nolan a much more able director in that genre.

that's the point - it's likely his would have been radically different
more about emotion and internal conflicts that force him to become this man bat

Plenty of emotion and internal conflicts in the current Batman Begins. This isn't a soap opera. I have no doubt Aronofsky can handle action, but Nolan has clearly showed he was the right choice. Besides Aronofsky will have plenty of opportunity to display internal conflict with a masked avenger in the Robocop remake :)

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