10. The Director Doesn't Need To Be A Fan
Read any sit down with the director of a major franchise reboot and the one point theyll be very quick to stress is how theyre a big fan of the source. While on the face of it this is promising (and not to mention fan pleasing), it can lead to glorified fan fiction. You can quite easily end up with something misguided, taking only one persons preferences about the franchise into account (Joss Whedon with Alien: Resurrection anyone?). Before he redefined the character, Nolan had little more than a passing interest in Batman, only reading the comics once hed taken the job. This helped him temper normal fan desires and make films that, while respectful of their source, worked in their own, separate world. Obviously David S. Goyer was along for the ride to put the fan side of things in, but having someone detached from the fanbase at the front of the series is what made The Dark Knight Trilogy so damned good. I'm not saying you want a director to disregard the character completely (this would be a problem with The Lone Ranger, which threw out all elements of the Rangers code, if anyone actually cared about a thirties radio/fifties TV show), but a fresh eye, critical to the heros more zany elements can only help. Considering a successful blockbuster is going to play to a much wider audience than the fans of the source, it seems a tad short sighted to try and win only them over.