10 Reasons We Don't Want Batman Reboot After The Dark Knight Rises

3. We Want to See Robin

Nolan has always stated that he'd never place Robin within his series, saying it focused on a younger Bruce Wayne, but it'd be great to see how the Boy Wonder could be incorporated into this version of the story. One of the great things about Nolan's Batman - that separates it from the rest of the superhero movie landscape - is that it explores to some extent how Batman's very presence is potentially unhelpful to the world. He is a vigilante and that idea is - in real-life at least - uncomplicatedly psychopathic, something the Batman world hints at by having all of the (Batman-inspired) villains being completely mad. Batman villains don't go to jail - they go to an insane asylum. And the obvious question is: does Batman belong there with them? After all, Wayne is doing this because of an inability to come to terms with the death of his parents. He's a little bit of a troubled soul, to put it lightly. Nolan's movies acknowledge this theme in all its troubling moral ambiguity. Now imagine for a second that Bruce Wayne brought someone else into this sick world. Imagine that person were not too far off being considered a child. That's a pretty interesting element if handled with the intelligence of a Christopher Nolan movie.
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A regular film and video games contributor for What Culture, Robert also writes reviews and features for The Daily Telegraph, GamesIndustry.biz and The Big Picture Magazine as well as his own Beames on Film blog. He also has essays and reviews in a number of upcoming books by Intellect.