Nolan Won’t Make Fourth Batman Movie

When the final frame of The Dark Knight Rises hits screens later this summer, that will be it for director Christopher Nolan and the Batman franchise. Speaking at the Produced By Conference in Los Angeles, Nolan says that he never intended to make a sequel much less a trilogy of films in the Batman universe when he rebooted the franchise with Batman Begins.

“We never had a specific trajectory,” Nolan says. “I wanted to put everything into making one great film, I didn’t want to hold anything back.”

Nolan also didn’t pull any punches about Hollywood’s move to digital filmmaking, calling it “devaluing of what we do as filmmakers.”

Nolan told the audience, which included Warner Bros‘ Jeff Robinov, that he “didn’t have any interest in being the research department for an electronics company.” Nolan added, “It’s like filmmakers are being encouraged to buy cameras like we are buying iPods.”