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"The Dark Knight Rises star Christian Bale has revealed that he would be open to making a fourth Batman movie with Christopher Nolan.  The upcoming third instalment of Nolan&amp;#039;s superhero series, currently being promoted with the tagline &amp;quot;the legend ends&amp;quot;, is expected to be his last.    However, Bale - who has said in the past that he will not play Batman without Nolan - stated that he would enjoy the &amp;quot;challenge&amp;quot; of pushing the Dark Knight story further. &amp;quot;My understanding is that this is the last one,&amp;quot; he told Empire. &amp;quot;I think it&amp;#039;s appropriate, I think it&amp;#039;s going out at the right time.  &amp;quot;But... if Chris came to me with a script and said, &amp;#039;You know what? There is another story&amp;#039;, then I would love the challenge of making a fourth one work.&amp;quot;  Last month, Nolan confirmed that he still intends to leave the Batman franchise after The Dark Knight Rises, saying: &amp;quot;Without getting into specifics, the key thing that makes the third film a great possibility for us is that we want to finish our story. &amp;quot;And in viewing it as the finishing of a story rather than infinitely blowing up the balloon and expanding the story... is useful.&amp;quot; Warner Bros chief Jeff Robinov announced in March 2011 that the studio will &amp;quot;have to reinvent Batman&amp;quot; after The Dark Knight Rises.  Nolan and his wife Emma Thomas have been tipped to produce a future reboot. The Dark Knight Rises will hit cinemas in the UK and US on July 20. Watch the trailer for The Dark Knight Rises below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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