| If Nolan will be back for the third installment, I'd be pretty sure that Bale would come back as well. As to the future of the franchise after the trilogy, we shall just have to wait and see. Perhaps a trilogy is enough. Just look at some other comic book franchises - both Spider-Man 3 and X-Men 3 were totally overkill, and now they're even going for Spider-Man 4, really milking it for all that it's worth instead of leaving it at that. But yeah, I'm crossing my fingers that Nolan and Bale will round out the trilogy, and if the third one coems out good, then I'd say Batman would rank up there with Star Wars OT, Back to the Future, The Lord of the Rings and very few others as one of the best movie trilogies of all time. My hopes are up. |