Batman 3?

The Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan disappeared on July 18 for an extended vacation while his wallet back in L.A. steadily filled up with millions of dollar bills. Now he has returned to civilization coated in solid gold and is most probably receiving fellatio from the entire Warner Bros. exec team (and all other studios too, I'm sure) but had enough time to answer some questions to the L.A. Times.

On the potential third Batman movie:

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.

In other words, pay me enough and I'm there. And Warner Bros. - PAY HIM ENOUGH! We don't need an X3 on our hands here. I didn't mind that film, but the batman series is so inexorably linked to Nolan's intense vision, it would be a crime to chuck Brett Ratner in the mix. The X Men were a little lighter. We don't need another Batman & Robin. Really.

On some kind of Justice League film:

I don’t think our Batman, our Gotham, lends itself to that kind of cross-fertilization. It goes back to one of the first things we wrangled with when we first started putting the story together: Is this a world in which comic books already exist? Is this a world in which superheroes already exist? If you think of "Batman Begins" and you think of the philosophy of this character trying to reinvent himself as a symbol, we took the position -- we didn’t address it directly in the film, but we did take the position philosophically -- that superheroes simply don’t exist. If they did, if Bruce knew of Superman or even of comic books, then that’s a completely different decision that he’s making when he puts on a costume in an attempt to become a symbol. It’s a paradox and a conundrum, but what we did is go back to the very original concept and idea of the character. In his first appearances, he invents himself as a totally original creation.

Here here. But I've always felt that Batman and Superman never really mixed in well together. I love the bad ass bat dude, but let's be honest: Supes is a fucking alien who can fly, Bats is just a super ninja. Bruce Wayne would feel like the poor kid who can't afford the latest Superman Xbox and would go mad with envy and start spraying Supes with krypton bat poo.