LAT: “Could you actually see yourself not making the third Batman film?”
Christopher Nolan: “Well ... let me think how to put this. There are two things to be said. One is the emphasis on story. What’s the story? Is there a story that’s going to keep me emotionally invested for the couple of years that it will take to make another one? That’s the overriding question. On a more superficial level, I have to ask the question: How many good third movies in a franchise can people name? [Laughs.] At the same time, in taking on the second one, we had the challenge of trying to make a great second movie, and there haven't been too many of those either. It’s all about the story really. If the story is there, everything is possible. I hope that was a suitably slippery answer.”
Grumblier cynics than us might suggest he’s just playing the long game and gambling on a bigger paycheck for the next Bat-film. Or perhaps he knows something we don’t and is passing the baton to an, ahem, less subtle auteur. After all, the script has already been written...
AWESOME!
