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Originally Posted by jjmoohead

to me if they make another movie they cant include the joker since in the original batman move joker was created and destryoed in that movie. He was Jack then he fell in that acid or whatever and then died at the end. It just doesn't work for me.

New characters only in my mind.

The previous movies are not connected to the new one. This is not only according to the director, screenwriters and producers, it is kinda obvious also if you pay attention to the story.

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For example in Burton's movie, Wayne's parents died in a way that would be totally against the way they are shown to die in Nolan's movie: in Batman is the Joker to kill Bruce Wayne's parents, while in the new one they are killed by Joe Chill, like in the comics.

Tim Burton gave his own interpretation of Batman, adding a lot of inventions that are not loyal to the comics. Not that this means it hurts to have a movie inspired by comics that doesn't follow the original story, but that is what Batman Begins tries to avoid, remaining more loyal to the comic books, and that's why it cannot be connected to the older movies., thus there would be nothing wrong to have a sequel to the new Batman with the Joker and other villains who previously appeared in other Batman flicks.