“Dark Knight” could continue the spin-off about Robin, but Nolan cut the project

But Christopher Nolan intervened and forbade to touch his trilogy categorically. He told about this The Wall Street Magazine In the material about the restart of the cinema combat dc.

Nolan, as you know, held hard control over all creative solutions for Batman. They wanted to develop success in the studio, but the director quickly made it clear that he would not allow side branches. The idea was reversed and Nolan limited himself to entering his version of Robin in the last film-detective John Blake, played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

In which year Warner came up with a spider -off, the source does not indicate. The idea probably appeared somewhere between 2008 and 2012-that is between the release of the second and third films. In those years, the studio just tried to promote other DC strip films without success:

• Tenders (2010)
• John Hax (2010)
• Green lantern (2011)

All three failed at the cash register and were defeated by critics. The series about Robin could be for Warner Bros. An analogue of the “Arrow”, which started in 2012 on the CW and De Stijl “Batman: Startman” largely copied.

There is a version that could plan spin after the “Dark Knight: Renaissance” in 2012. Then the Studio Superman tried to conquer with a “man of steel” by building Kavill and a single cinema combat DC. At some point they even discussed the option to return Christian Bale as Batman in “Batman vs. Superman”But they quickly rejected the idea – the realistic world of Nolan was in no way combined with the existence of Superman.

Nolan himself continued to work with Warner Bros. And apparently the studio did not want to spoil the relationship with him. As a result, it was decided to leave the trilogy of self -sufficient and not to form a continuation. This approach was maintained until the Nolan finally broke the relationship with the studio against the background of their decision to release films in the cinema at the same time and at streaming.