But I also remember the jolt of wonder and delight I felt years ago reading Jean Rhys's novel, "Wide Sargasso Sea, " when I realized that Antoinette Cosway, the main character, was the girl who would one day marry Mr. Rochester and go mad in his attic at Thornfield.
That establishes six films in the Batman series, and leads into a third trilogy to up the ante and complete the creation of a fully realized Batman world with most of the main elements from the comics in place.