I don't know if this is true but there was a rumor that Nolan is totally opposed to having Robin in any way, shape or form in the new Batman films. Is this true? Supposedly takes away from the seriousness of Batman--which IMHO is false, since Robin has almost always been part of the Batman mythos (more than 60 years); some have said that if you bring in Robin that's just going to make it like
Batman and Robin all over again....which is ridiculous I think, since that film TOTALLY messed up the character and made him way too old! It wasn't just Robin, it was everything.
That's like saying you should never show Bane or Mr. Freeze in any Batman movie again because they were messed up so badly in 1997. We know that's not how those characters really are.
And of course in B:TAS, Robin played a vital part of quite a few episodes.
(Although personally I liked the younger Tim Drake Robin better, he seemed to be more a part of the whole thing, since he actually was still a kid and lived with Bruce Wayne and all. The Dick Grayson Robin seemed more like a part-time superhero than anything else. To me anyway.....
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It's a tricky thing with Robin since he hasn't always been portrayed all that well (the 66 Batman film,
Batman Forever and
Batman and Robin) and many automatically associate him with "camp" although many interpretations of him have been quite dark. (the comics Robin 3 Tim Drake and Robin 2 Jason Todd for starters)
The thing is, if you bring in an actor in his twenties (and how can you possibly do that since Bale is still so young, even if they age him a bit to play an "older" Bruce) you screw up the character and the whole balance between Batman and Robin as two guys living together brings up all kinds of questions....then if you try finding a child actor who really suits the role (and it just seems like children in mythic films get so much flack nowadays, *coughTristanLakeLebeauJakeLloydcough* that you're already putting the film at risk. How do you have a kid hero without making it seem cheesy or Spy Kids rip off? Or how do you find a good teen actor who suits the role and pleases fans (and once again, teen/adolescent/young adult actors get lots of flack too, *coughHaydenChristiansoncough*)
Then there's a whole other can of worms of a kid living with an older man, particularly a young boy.....they can get around it of course, just have to really bring home the whole "Bruce Wayne millionaire playboy buys a hotel to treat his girlfriends" thing, and of course Rachel, maybe then they can swing it. And even THEN, if they take a kid actor who's about 12-14, they have to justify all the child endangerment issues with a kid risking his life against homicidal psychopath villains, etc....(Look at all the trouble
Return of the Joker got into.....
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Anyways, I still hope they get around to including Robin, the TRUE Robin, in one of the upcoming films(as many fans do)....but there's a bunch of hurdles they have to cross first.
You can’t just have your characters announce how they feel! That makes me feel angry!
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