Hello Bat fans! I have a couple items of news the first being an announcement of the new animated series Batman: The Brave and the Bold which is scheduled to air November 14, 2008 at 7:30pm, on Cartoon Network.

Ok, so this is hardly new information, but hey it's just around the corner, so here it is.

Batman: The Brave and the Bold is going to be a series of several Batman team up. The fun part about this series is that it nods it's head at the retro campy Batman of old. So Bats isn't gonna be the dark, brooding character we all know and love, but the tone is fun and light hearted, and who doesn't love that?

Here's a link to an Interview with creators James Tucker and Andrea Romano on SuperHeroHype.com That also includes footage shown at ComicCon.

http://www.superherohype.com/news/featuresnews.php?id=7527


The other bit of news I have is that Christopher Nolan seems to have some doubts about continuing with the Batman films. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times he gave some fairly ambiguous answers on the subject:

"GB: Could you see actually yourself not making the third Batman film?

NOLAN: 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."

However, when talking about Warner Brothers he does seem to enjoy working with them:

"GB: You've said you aren't sure what you next project will be. But clearly Warner Bros. looks at Batman as a core part of their movie business, perhaps now more than ever, and there are marketplace pressures on them to schedule the next installment of the franchise. Are you getting a lot of pressure to make a decision?

Nolan: They’re being extremely gracious. I have a very good relationship with the studio. They know that I really needed to go on holiday and take some time to figure what I want to do next. They’ve been very respectful of that, which is terrific and one of the reasons I enjoy working with Warner Bros."

So it's still up in the air.

You can read the entire interview here:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocomplex/2008/10/christopher-nol.html