The Next 'Batman' Movie Has a Title

Christopher Nolan has been very smart the last few weeks with how he's slowly been teasing out information for the maniacally awaited next installment in the Batman franchise: It's going to shoot this summer! Tom Hardy's gonna play a bad guy! Today, Nolan was nice enough to actually reveal three whole new tidbits about the movie, although even those clues have their own mysteries attached.

The first big takeaway from his interview with Hero Complex's Geoff Boucher is that the film will be called "The Dark Knight Rises." Count us among the people who think it's pretty cool, connecting the new film to the last movie's unresolved Batman-on-the-run ending.

The other big headline-grabbing revelation is that the Riddler won't be the bad guy. Since Nolan had previously eliminated Mr. Freeze as a possible villain, that leaves the Penguin and Catwoman as the most famous baddies left in the Batman universe. (And depending on who you trust, those options may have been rejected too.) As close to a hint as Nolan would offer in his interview with Boucher is "We'll use many of the same characters as we have all along, and we'll be introducing some new ones," although Moviehole seems pretty convinced that a love-interest/Catwoman character might be one of those new faces.

But while those first two items will get the most attention, we humbly submit that the most exciting news to come out of today's Nolan Proclamation is that "The Dark Knight Rises" won't be 3-D. Instead, it'll be shot on high-def and IMAX cameras, which are less about visual gimmicks and more about sharpening already superb images. (Our friends who saw "The Dark Knight" in IMAX still won't shut up about how amazing the mid-film car chase sequence was.) Beyond the fact that Nolan wasn't seduced by the dark side of 3-D, the decision is fantastic because it shows that he's a filmmaker with enough clout to tell Warner Bros. "no" to something that would have been sure to add another $300 million or so to the film's grosses. How many blockbuster directors have the stature or integrity to do that?

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which would you rather see? Batman vs Penguin or Batman vs Catwoman ?

CATWOMAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'd like to see the "Dark Knight" version of Her. these movies seem kinda dark and gritty so I'd like to see how they portrait her.

Catwoman a million more times!! im excited for the movie.. even if i have to wait awhile to see it.

I would like to see Mr.Freeze

I think Catwoman would be the best option next probably.

Penguin could be intresting.

They should've went with Riddler

I wonder who would get the role of Catwoman?

I still wish we had seen Black Cat in one of the Spiderman movies

shoulda called it the Dark Knight Returns

'Rise of the Dark Knight'

That name is garbage. It's damn near redundant. I would've prefered 'KnightRise' or 'KnightFall' over that. i hope he doesnt use Catwoman because Catwoman has already been overkilled. I'd prefer seeing two-face getting a proper run but that's severely unlikely. The Penguin....meh..Burton did the best incarnation of him.