Christopher Nolan will return as co-writer/director and Christian Bale will once again don the batsuit. There's no word yet on the plot or confirmation on when Batman 3 will head into production, but now Nolan and crew have a release date to shoot for. And the July 20th release just adds to the anticipation of the summer of 2012 for all comic book movie fans. Also heading into theaters that summer are The Avengers (on May 4th), the next Star Trek (on June 29th), and the reboot of Spider-Man (on July 3rd). That's a pretty impressive line-up.
Nolan and Bale's first Batman film together, Batman Begins, was released on June 15, 2005 and did $48 million over its first weekend. It was followed by The Dark Knight which lit the box office on fire, bringing in $158,411,483 during its July 18-20, 2008 opening weekend
