Actually, no, and I’m glad to clarify that, because I know that can be confusing.
“Batman Begins” was actually not a prequel to “Batman,” but the start of an entirely new Bat-movie franchise. So the sequels (it will probably be a trilogy) will have all new takes on the characters, and it will (respectfully) have nothing to do with Tim Burton’s movies.
The thinking was that since “Batman and Robin”, the one with George Clooney, was so unbelievably awful, that the only way to continue more Batfilms would be to start over from scratch. Although it took them about eight years to figure out how they wanted to do it.
OK. I was reading about how in a third film they are hoping to have the Harvey Dent/ Two-Face conversion and maybe have the penguin, I’m sitting here scratching my head. If they are going to start from scratch, I hope they make a series out of it, like James Bond. It’s not like there aren’t a plethra of villains to choose from for each possible movie.