Also Bazooka, Bane is a really interesting character too. He kind of had the past of Edmond from The Count of Monte Cristo, I dunno if you know it. He spent a long time in a jail, paying out his father's debt, and during that time he got a real classical education. He's actually really really smart, like, he figured out Batman's identity in one day and, instead of just taking him on himself, he freed everyone from Arkham and after Batman tired himself out catching everybody, Bane fought Batman and broke his back. He's also on this drug called Venom, which makes him super-strong. He needs to have it every 12-hours, though, or else he goes into this extreme withdrawals.

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In response to speculation that Philip Seymour Hoffman was approached for the role of the Penguin, as a British arms dealer in The Dark Knight, franchise director Christopher Nolan said he considered the character difficult to portray on film, explaining, "I'd be more excited to have Philip Seymour Hoffman in the film than to have the Penguin. There are certain characters that are easier to mesh with the more real take on Batman we're doing. The Penguin would be tricky."[3] Recently, viral marketing for The Dark Knight included a Gotham Times newspaper, featuring a newspaper ad for the Iceberg Lounge, one of the Penguin's businesses. Prior to the release of The Dark Knight in 2008, David Goyer ruled out using the Penguin or Catwoman as a villain in a future film, preferring to use antagonists from the comic that had not yet been portrayed on the big screen.

So apparently they want to use characters that haven't been in movies already.

Just one quick question about what defines a Superhero movie:  Are movies like the James Bond movies and The Bourne series count as superhero movies?  I mean, if Batman counts (especially the latest films) shouldn't Bond movies with all his out-of-this-world gadgetery and crazy impossible stunts be superhero movies?

Some movies just blur the lines.

So apparently they want to use characters that haven't been in movies already.

If this was true, and he counted all the Batman movies... Wouldn't this leave...the Black Mask...and a bunch of no-name villains?

Superhero movies are movies based on superhero comic books. James Bond isn't a superhero.

A superhero (sometimes rendered super-hero or super hero) is a fictional character "of unprecedented physical prowess dedicated to acts of derring-do in the public interest"

A Superhero film is an action, fantasy or science fiction genre film that is focused on the actions of one or more superheroes, who are individuals who possess superhuman abilities relative to a normal person.

That isn't to say he wasn't originally an anti hero, but his archetype is slowly being considered more heroic in general. Back when it first came out it was probably considered anti heroic, but not really anymore as the genre has advanced.