The Dark Knight Rises Ending: What Happens To Batman, Gotham And John Blake

In two months, Ben Affleck is taking over as the latest live-action Bruce Wayne inBatman v Superman: Dawn of Justice - a role he’s already officially reprise for at least three more movies. For most of us, though, 2012’s The Dark Knight Rises is still a fresh memory. Following 1997’s disappointing Batman & Robin, director Christopher Nolan successfully rebooted the cinematic superhero in 2005 withBatman Begins, and after continuing the story in the enormously successful The Dark Knight, he concluded the Dark Knight trilogy in 2012 with The Dark Knight Rises. Although the movie earned many positive reviews from critics, it’s a mixed bag among fans - some feeling it was a lackluster conclusion to the overall epic trilogy. However, there’s one thing that can’t be denied: it’s one of the few Caped Crusader stories to give Bruce Wayne a definitive ending.

Because of Christopher Nolan wanting to tell a complete Batman story, as well as Warner Bros’ eagerness to kick off the DC Extended Universe, the Dark Knighttrilogy is a shut book now. While there was talk shortly after the film’s release about whether the Dark Knight series could continue, be it in a John Blake-led Batman movie or a Catwoman spinoff, those ideas were quickly shot down. So unless DC decides in a decade from now that they want to do a comic book continuation, we’ll never officially know how this universe continued. However, that doesn’t mean it’s not possible to figure out what would have happened afterwards to lay the groundwork for a fourth movie.

Before we give our thoughts on the Dark Knight universe might have looked following The Dark Knight Rises, let’s first recap how the threequel ended….... Read More »