Jonathan Nolan wrote The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises alongside his brother (after contributing to Batman Begins), filmmaker Christopher Nolan, and he's since shifted focus to small screen projects like Westworld and Fallout.
Christopher has said on multiple occasions that he's done with Batman, while Christian Bale has vowed to only return if the director does. As a result, we've come to accept this trilogy ended in 2012 and will be left alone (thankfully, The Flash didn't sour it in any way last summer).
However, in a new interview, Jonathan has made it clear he'd be open to returning to the Caped Crusader's world...even if his brother would take some convincing.
"Wouldn't that be a dream," he said. "That period was about 10 years of my life, from when I got the call to work on Batman Begins in 2003 to putting out The Dark Knight Rises In 2012 and it was epic."
"The chance to work Christian, Heath, Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine and the extraordinary cast of those films," Nolan continued. "A sort of American icon. So, if I had the chance to go back and work on that again - absolutely."
It's a nice thought, but with DC Studios rebooting the DCU and two Batman franchises - Matt Reeves' The Batman and Andy Muschietti's The Brave and the Bold - soon to dominate theaters, there's arguably no place for a revival of any sort.
Had Warner Bros.' planned Crisis on Infinite Earths movie become a reality, it's not outside the realm of possibility that Bale might have been talked into donning the cape and cowl one final time.
"Chris was on the fence about making another one," Jonathan previously said of how The Dark Knight came to be. "I think he didn’t want to become a superhero movie director. He was very proud of 'Batman Begins,' but to me, it was like we built this amazing sports car, and I’m like, 'Let’s take it for a drive. Don’t you want to make another one?'"
"We spent an hour telling the origin story, and that’s great, but it’s like, 'What [more] can we do with this?' Can we take the same characters and shift ever so slightly into a different genre? Can we go from an adventure film to a crime film, to a mob movie, and bring that feeling into it?"
Check out this new interview with the filmmaker in the player below.