Credit: DC / Warner BrosChristopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy will be back in theaters soon, but just for one day, and you have to know where to find it.
Batman Begins (2005), The Dark Knight (2008), and The Dark Knight Rises (2012) were the defining superhero movies of the early Aughts before the Marvel Cinematic Universe fully dominated both the genre and the global box office.
The films starred Christian Bale as Batman/Bruce Wayne, Michael Caine as Alfred Pennyworth, Morgan Freeman as Lucius Fox, Gary Oldman as James Gordon, along with Liam Neeson as Ra’s al Ghul, Anne Hathaway as Selina Kyle, Tom Hardy as Bane, Marion Cotillard as Miranda Tate/Talia al Ghul, Aaron Eckhart as Harvey Dent, and the late Heath Ledger in an Oscar-winning turn as the Joker.
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The critical and commercial success of the films gave Christopher Nolan a blank check that has allowed him to expand beyond the Dark Knight and to even greater successes with Inception (2010), Interstellar (2014), and Oppenheimer (2023). However, even though Christopher Nolan has moved away from Gotham City, fans will always hope that he will return to the world of the Dark Knight.
It seems increasingly unlikely that Christopher Nolan is ever going back to comic book movies, but at least the Dark Knight trilogy will be (briefly) coming back to theaters.
‘Batman’ Day
Since 2014, DC Entertainment (which has been partly restructured by Warner Bros Discovery into DC Studios) has promoted September 16 as “Batman Day,” an occasion to celebrate all things related to billionaire playboy Bruce Wayne and his quest to save Gotham City via elaborate costumes and vigilantism.
To celebrate this, the Showcase Cinema theater chain is showing Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy for one day only in select locations.
The caped crusader is back 🦇 Celebrate #BatmanDay with #TheDarkKnightTrilogy, only in select Showcase Cinemas on September 16. pic.twitter.com/qzU9nayGEd
— ShowcaseUS (@ShowcaseUS) August 28, 2023
This is mostly helpful if you live in the New England region, but dedicated Batman fans have certainly shown themselves willing to do a little travel in order to show their devotion to the Caped Crusader.
After Christopher Nolan’s ‘Dark Knight’ Trilogy
Since Christian Bale last starred as Batman, the role has been taken up by Ben Affleck, Robert Pattinson, a returning Michael Keaton, and (briefly) George Clooney.
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It seems unlikely that either Christopher Nolan or Christian Bale will return to the series, but we will definitely be seeing the Robert Pattinson version of the character in the upcoming The Batman 2 and a currently unknown actor in James Gunn’s announced The Brave and the Bold movie.
If you absolutely need to see the Dark Knight back on the big screen at least one more time, it sounds like it’s time to head up to New England.
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