Emma Thomas says Christopher Nolan will never make another Batman film?

In an interview with our siblings at SFX, Emma Thomas has stated that Christopher Nolan will never return to Batman after The Dark Knight Rises.

When SFX
put the question to Thomas, who is Nolan's wife and producing partner,
as to whether Nolan could be tempted to make a fourth Bat-flick, she
responded, "No. Never."

When pressed on whether that meant never,
or never say never again, Thomas said, categorically, "No, that's truly
a never. I can't imagine a world in which he would ever want to come
back.

"At a certain point it’s fun to go off and do something
different, you know. We’ve spent almost 10 years of our lives making
Batman films. He was very excited about this film, and the story that
he’d come up with, but I just cannot imagine that he would get that
excited about another version of the same thing.

"The great thing
about a trilogy is that it feels like you’ve got a beginning, a middle
and an end. It’s like an extended version of a regular film. Once you
get into a fourth film then it’s just episodic, and I just can’t see him
getting excited about making another film where basically you’re just
wheeling in different villains.”

On the one hand, it's hard not
to admire a filmmaker sticking to their guns, and refusing to bow to
audience or studio pressure. On the other hand, it's a little depressing
to know that The Dark Knight Rises will be our last visit to the Nolan bat-verse.

Oh well, we'll have to make sure we enjoy it then.

For more from Thomas on TDKR, be sure to pick up SFX #224, which hits newsstands next Wednesday.