MUMBAI: Christopher Nolan has announced that the title of the third instalment of the blockbuster Batman franchise will be called The Dark Knight Rises.

Neither will the film be in 3D format nor will the villain, The Riddler, fill in the Joker‘s shoes in the third outing that would be about the caped crusader‘s efforts to keep Gotham city crime-free.

The Dark Knight Rises will be distributed by Warner Bros.
The first film in the series titled Batman Begins released in 2005, but it was the second part The Dark Knight that caught the public eye and went on to gross over a billion dollars worldwide when released in 2008. It also got Australian actor Heath Ledger a posthumous Oscar for his stupendous performance. 

Nolan steers clear of the 3D technology that took Hollywood by storm after the success of James Cameron‘s Avatar as he wants to focus on the high definition cameras and IMAX technology.

The director, whose last outing Inception created ripples worldwide, stated that the third Batman film would follow many of the same characters from the previous films as well as a few new ones.

The Dark Knight Rises is slated to release on 20 July 2012.