Important features a potential Batman reboot MUST Have

[Nefarius]

Ι would love a Golden Age Batman.An urban vigilante in 40s.I would follow Burton's root and not presenting an origin and Batman would be an established crime fighter who cornered Gotham's organised crime.As a first opponent,i would use Hugo Strange as a genius master planner who can challenge Batman's wits and skills.Sort of like Game of Shadows,with Strange as Batman's Professor Moriarty.

[Zak213]

Batman and the outsiders.

[Mr. Holmes]

Basically make him like the Guy Ritchie Sherlock Holmes. So he's a detective genius and fights analytically. Use the costumes and cinematic style of Watchmen.

[Power Torch]

Less realistic themes, like Poison Ivy, Killer Croc stuff like that. Or Scar Face, that would be cool.

I just think, putting someone in a Bat suit and then trying to keep everything realistic is not realistic at all. It just makes Batman look silly. It was the one problem I had with the last set of Batman movies.

[Mr. Holmes]

Except not everything was realistic. The League of Shadows borderlined on mysticism, Lucius Fox designed unrealistically advanced gadgets a la James Bond, the plots were heightened far beyond reality. They kept the tone grounded, but that's how people were able to from there buy into the unrealistic parts (ie Batman's suit). It's the same approach Donner did with Superman.

[Power Torch]

Except not everything was realistic. The League of Shadows borderlined on mysticism, Lucius Fox designed unrealistically advanced gadgets a la James Bond, the plots were heightened far beyond reality. They kept the tone grounded, but that's how people were able to from there buy into the unrealistic parts (ie Batman's suit). It's the same approach Donner did with Superman.

Again I said less realistic, Christopher Nolan said at some point (not sure where) that he was going for a more realistic Batman, and would not be using un realistic villains. He wanted them to be humans with weapons. Which is what he did, and I love it. But I did not try to say that the whole film was realistic, I mean come on its a Batman movie. Its just him trying to make it more realistic just seemed a little silly to me. Plus I love the unrealistic villains better. But this is just my opinion.

[jgiannantoni05]

I want the next Batman films to borrow the detective stuff from those new Sherlock Holmes movies. That's all I know. Because I daresay I want to see film Batman be a detective (Nolan disagreed apparently).

[Mr. Holmes]

Again I said less realistic, Christopher Nolan said at some point (not sure where) that he was going for a more realistic Batman, and would not be using un realistic villains. He wanted them to be humans with weapons. Which is what he did, and I love it. But I did not try to say that the whole film was realistic, I mean come on its a Batman movie. Its just him trying to make it more realistic just seemed a little silly to me. Plus I love the unrealistic villains better. But this is just my opinion.

That's fine, obviously Nolan didn't introduce zaniness or super-powers. But I'm responding to the latter part of your post. The fact that he wore a Batsuit was no more unrealistic than several other aspects of this universe.

I want the next Batman films to borrow the detective stuff from those new Sherlock Holmes movies. That's all I know. Because I daresay I want to see film Batman be a detective (Nolan disagreed apparently).

He was a detective, the plot just didn't focus on it.

[stk]

I don't think anyone is going to out-Nolan the Nolan Trilogy, so I'd take Batman the opposite direction away from 'realistic urban commando' and head into 'spooky creature of the night' territory. With strong detective elements and more of a Gothic horror vibe. That's the movie I'd love to see. The Batman movie that Hammer Films would have made in the early 1970s, maybe.

And no ensemble cast of villains, splitting the screen time and thus making sure none of them get any kind of adequate development. I hate that.

[Power Torch]

That's fine, obviously Nolan didn't introduce zaniness or super-powers. But I'm responding to the latter part of your post. The fact that he wore a Batsuit was no more unrealistic than several other aspects of this universe.

I get what you are saying, sorry for the mix up. But I just feel in a world that was mostly real. A person who wants to get justice and fight bad guys or whatever would not just see a Bat and make a suit into one. They would just wear a normal looking suit and mask. The less real stuff did not come up really till after he was making the Bat suit I think. (other then the bond type of gadgets) and I guess the League of Shadows can be seen as unrealistic though to....maybe I am just crazy lol XD

I don't think anyone is going to out-Nolan the Nolan Trilogy, so I'd take Batman the opposite direction away from 'realistic urban commando' and head into 'spooky creature of the night' territory. With strong detective elements and more of a Gothic horror vibe. That's the movie I'd love to see.

Yes, yes, yes, and yes! This is what I want too lol XD

[Motherboy]

1. Leather gimp masks. Hard, black, sculpted-rubber codpieces. Batarangs ripping blood from punctured orifices. EXTREME.
2. Batman should have a bat that sits on his shoulder and he talks to it. This would show that he's unstable and not your granddaddy's superhero.
3. An extended scene of Alfred and Batman smoking opium in the cave and discussing how the city is corrupt and hopeless and how he's the damned, hell-bound soul who has to save it. But, in a shocking scene toward the end of the movie, it's revealed THERE IS NO ALFRED.
4. When the villain of the movie defeats Batman midway through, and Bruce has to retreat and regroup, he goes up into the mountains to ride horses and spend some time at the Wayne farm. This would be a full half-hour of the movie, with Bruce riding horses and wrestling with dogs in the mud.
5. Geordi LaForge should make a brief background cameo.

[dntfeedthemnkys]

This is a great thread. Awesome thought into the OP and then heaps of great responses.

I'd love to see Harley and Deadshot appear in future movies. Hell, maybe even Hush. Why not. (hahah stirring the pot over here).

But on the point of Harley - I'd hope for the sexy Harley - not the comical jester Harley.

[Dr. Cheesesteak]

I agree w/ the "no origin" sentiments. I say make the Morrison epic in to a Batman movie trilogy

1st movie - Batman and Son, Final Crisis
2nd movie - Batman & Robin, Return of Bruce Wayne
3rd movie - Batman, Inc

if that can all be condensed somehow. Even I left out Black Hand, RIP, etc...

[Namtab]

1. Leather gimp masks. Hard, black, sculpted-rubber codpieces. Batarangs ripping blood from punctured orifices. EXTREME.
2. Batman should have a bat that sits on his shoulder and he talks to it. This would show that he's unstable and not your granddaddy's superhero.
3. An extended scene of Alfred and Batman smoking opium in the cave and discussing how the city is corrupt and hopeless and how he's the damned, hell-bound soul who has to save it. But, in a shocking scene toward the end of the movie, it's revealed THERE IS NO ALFRED.
4. When the villain of the movie defeats Batman midway through, and Bruce has to retreat and regroup, he goes up into the mountains to ride horses and spend some time at the Wayne farm. This would be a full half-hour of the movie, with Bruce riding horses and wrestling with dogs in the mud.
5. Geordi LaForge should make a brief background cameo.

This sounds great! Especially, 3-5.

[Whip Whirlwind]

Basically make him like the Guy Ritchie Sherlock Holmes. So he's a detective genius and fights analytically. Use the costumes and cinematic style of Watchmen.

Pretty much this.