Batman Franchise To Be Rebooted?

"He's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs" Christopher Nolan has said that 2012's The Dark Knight Rises will be his final Batman film, leading to speculation as to what will happen to the critically acclaimed comic-book adaptation's franchise. Could the whole saga be rebooted? Jeff Robinov, the head of Warner Brothers, seems to think so: "We have the third Batman [Rises, due next July], but then we'll have to reinvent Batman". Pressed further as to whether he thinks this would mean restarting the modern series, Robinov said "I do. Chris Nolan and Emma Thomas will be producing it, so it will be a conversation with them about what the next phase is." Now, before any fans of the Caped Crusader get out their pitchforks at the supposed announcement of a reboot, bear in mind that since Nolan has previously called Rises his last work on the series Robinov's claim that the director and producer of both Batman Begins and The Dark Knight will definitely produce the "next phase" seems more ambitious than it does true right now, and with Christian Bale and Gary Oldman each having said that they would be up for another instalment a full-on reboot seems a lot less likely. For me, if The Dark Knight Rises does its job and really finishes off the saga of Batman with a bang as Spider-Man 3 and X-Men: The Last Stand failed to do (hence the reason why we're getting reboots The Amazing Spider-Man and X-Men: First Class respectively), then it doesn't matter if a few years down the line Warner Brothers make a new incarnation, but let's wait and see how well the third flick performs first. In other interesting DC news, pressed on the possibility of a Justice League film, DC writer Geoff Johns said "we'll talk about it at Comic Con"...