Nightwing

Nightwing is a 2014 superhero film directed by Christopher Nolan, who co-wrote the screenplay with his brother Jonathan Nolan, and the story with David S. Goyer. Featuring the DC Comics character Nightwing, the film is a spin off to Nolan's The Dark Knight Trilogy after 2012's The Dark Knight Rises, and is the first of The Nightwing Trilogy. Joseph Gordon-Levitt returns as John Blake, who has taken up Batman's crusade. However, he struggles to form a new destiny of his own, and finds himself facing his first real challenge when two criminals named the Riddler (David Tennant) and the Penguin (Stephen Graham) turn Gotham into a battlefield as they fight for control.

Plot
Eighteen months after the death of Batman, Gotham City has attempted to recover from the actions of Bane. The police have taken a harden stance of crime, but secretly the criminal empire is returning under the more manipulative rule of Oswald Cobblepot who goes by the moniker of the Penguin. Things begin to change however when a mysterious criminal named the Riddler appears and starts stealing from him.

Meanwhile John Blake has helped out at the new orphanage at Wayne Manor while secretly training to take Bruce Wayne's place as Gotham's protector with the aid of Lucius Fox. However he has deep insecurities of his capabilities and considers the possibility he can't be of any help to the city like Batman. After a gang war between Riddler and Penguin, Nightwing visits James Gordon and attempts to strike up a partnership with the commissioner. However Gordon is wary of Nightwing and doesn't trust him like he did with Batman.

Cast

 * Joseph Gordon-Levitt as John Blake/Nightwing
 * Gary Oldman as James Gordon
 * David Tennant as Edward Nashton/Riddler
 * Stephen Graham as Oswald Cobblepot/Penguin
 * Emily Blunt as Vicki Vale
 * Morgan Freeman as Lucius Fox

Reception
The film received mostly positive reviews upon release, most calling it "a great, if slightly predictable, continuation of the Dark Knight Trilogy".

Sequels
A second film titled Knightfall was released in 2017. A third film, and the final of the Nightwing trilogy, is expected to be released in 2019.