Christopher Nolan will never do another Batman movie according to his producer wife Emma Thomas.
The Dark Knight Rises is set to be the third and final Batman movie in the Nolan series and it comes four years after the monster success of The Dark Knight.
And there have been some suggestions that he could possibly return if the new movie enjoyed a similar success.
But When asked by SFX whether he would consider returning to the franchise Thomas said: "No. Never.
"No, that's truly a never. I can't imagine a world in which he would ever want to come back.
"At a certain point it's fun to go off and do something different, you know. We've spent almost ten years of our lives making Batman films.
"He was very excited about this film, and the story that he'd come up with, but I just cannot imagine that he would get that excited about another version of the same thing.
"The great thing about a trilogy is that it feels like you've got a beginning, a middle and an end. It's like an extended version of a regular film.
"Once you get into a fourth film then it's just episodic, and I just can't see him getting excited about making another film where basically you're just wheeling in different villains."
Christian Bale is back as Bruce Wayne for what is expected to be a final time and he will battle Bane, played by Tom Hard this time around.
The movie is one of the most anticipated for the year but Marvel's Avengers Assemble has thrown down the gauntlet for the superhero movie this summer it has grossed in excess of $1.4 billion to become the third biggest movie of all time.
The Dark Knight Rises is released 20th July.
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