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This is special. The mayor of a Turkish town called Batman said he will explore legal options to sue Christopher Nolan, director The Dark Knight and Batman Begins, for using the town's name.

Ever since The Dark Knight came out and started garnering positive reviews, earning lots of money and becoming IMDb's favorite movie of all time (it has since fallen to #4), rumors have been flying regarding various aspects of a possible sequel. They've already been put to rest once. Now we're here to confirm they're all being put to rest again.

Here we go again. It hasn't even been two months since The Dark Knight opened in theaters and it's already a chore to keep up with the hype on the sequel—which, by the way, hasn't even been confirmed yet. Who? When? How? Cher as Catwoman!? (Or is that Angelina Jolie?) 

It’s been a little over a month since The Dark Knight hit theaters. We’ve gone through record breaking sales, fanboy freakouts, and, of course, the obligatory backlash. So it only makes sense that the Batman sequel speculation has already begun. The Hollywood Reporter leaked recently that Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures are ready to greenlight a third Batman film, which isn’t too surprising considering that the film has made—and these are exact numbers, people—eleventy billion dollars.

OK, apologies to Lego Man, Rosie the Riveter and the Yip-Yip Martian Muppet, my vote for costume of the year at Dragon*Con 2008 (at least on Friday) goes to this Aaron Eckhart look-alike, who shaved part of his head, singed his collar and spent a couple of hours putting on his latex mask. All in the name of looking exactly like Harvey "Two-Face" Dent.

[Above: a screenshot from the Batman Begins video game]

We hope it's not spoiling anything if we admit to squirming in our seats a bit while watching The Dark Knight last week. Perhaps you, too, felt there were a few decisions you might have changed, a few lives you might have tried to save. Or maybe you just want to try your hand with the new gadgets Christian Bale wielded in IMDb's new #1 movie.

Release Date: July 18
Director: Christopher Nolan
Writers: Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan
Cinematographer: Wally Pfister
Starring: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Caine, Maggie Gyllenhaal
Studio/Run Time: Warner Bros. Pictures, 142 mins.

Of the recent attempts to reset a moribund Hollywood franchise, Batman Begins (2005) stands as one of two unqualified successes. The series had run out of steam when Christopher Nolan's injection of gritty realism—not to mention complete disregard for any prior film in the series—jerked it back to life. This new Batman was no polished smirker, but rather, a brooding Christian Bale, a loner with a hero complex and too much money. This Gotham City was no expressionistic Oz on a black sound stage, but a clone of Chicago, shown in broad daylight just before it sank into darkness.