When any movie is a massive success, let alone with the unprecedented nature achieved by The Dark Knight, there will always a lot of speculation surrounding a follow-up. Over the past year there have been reports of various castings being made which have not panned out as well as script ideas or simply the current status. The culprit for starting much of the rumors has been Michael Caine. He has now made news again with the following statement.
As for the future… if they ever make another Batman, I will be in, I will be the butler…But I don’t know if they are ever going to make another Batman. If they do it won’t be for quite a while.”
Previously Caine had stated that there was no way the movie could be made before 2011 because of the work director Christopher Nolan is doing with Inception. At this point the next Batman appears to be a long ways off but no one truly feels that it won’t ever happen.