Batman: A New Dawn is an film directed, produced and co-written by Christopher Nolan, meant to start a second trilogy continuing Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy. This film stars Christian Bale as Batman with Manu Bennett, Mark Wahlberg, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Mathew McConaughey, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Slade Wilson, Andrew Juarez, Alfred Pennyworth, James Gordon, The Joker, and Robin John Blake respectively.