Originally posted by Bat Dude
In a reboot for the series, what I would want to see is Batman back where he works best and ultimately where he belongs: In a never-changing 1940s world. Gangsters in pinstripes and fedoras, tommy guns, cigars and pipes, etc.Villain-wise, I would still want to see the Joker, Two-Face and Catwoman at some point, but Black Mask, Scarface, and etc. should definitely appear. A mob war movie between Black Mask, Scarface and a rebooted Penguin would be awesome. Possibly even an appearance by a certain Year Two villain that I had been pimping around the boards in the past? 😉
This is what I was expecting after watching Begins. I thought that movie started the Nolan franchise in the right direction; introducing an element of the mob in line with Bat villains (Ra's Al Ghul, Scarescrow), and I actually thought an all out mob warfare element would be introduced in the second film with Batman in the thick of it.
I was not really keen on seeing an old style movie with tommy guns, the old style cars, etc. But hey, executed correctly it could have been something good and may have even surprised me.
Penguin, although having been used as a villain before, would have been good as a Mob boss, along with Black Mask.