There must be some miscommunication here. I never said The Dark Knight(TDK) is being created by a new team and is being taken into a different direction than Batman Begins(BB). TDK is being made by the same team(director, writer, etc) that made BB and is a sequel to that film and will continue the arc(s) established in it. It will build on the continuity established in BB. And, just how Batman Returns was a much darker film than Batman 89, TDK will be a darker version of BB. With that said, BB was much, much darker than Batman '89(the first Burton film) and much more realistic(which was the aim of not camping it up and using true costumes with the villains...Joker in TDK will not necessarily be a purple suit wearing fool, although that remains to be seen).
B89 was just downright silly in places. Nicholson's Joker is not The Joker as he should be potrayed. Yes, he looked like him and laughed it up and had his little electrocution buzzer and an accurate origin(in regards to how he became Joker), but the behavior and stupid Prince soundtrack completely contradicted everything else. It's Hollywood legend that Nicholson basically did what he wanted to do, and would take no direction from Burton on how to do it. In some instances he got it right(early on), and then he just turned into an idiot. If you want to witness an accurate potrayal of the character, watch Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker(Uncut version) or watch the episode of Batman: The Animated Series called "The Laughing Fish." That's the psycho, not silly Joker that they will hopefully aim for in TDK.
There will be a third film, and likewise it will continue what transpires in TDK. Two-Face will be the primary villain in it. Harvey Dent(who becomes Two-Face) will be a major character in TDK and if rumors are true, The Joker will play a hand in his transformation in the 3rd film.
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AvsP was a [censored] joke
Yes, but it has nothing to do with either the Alien or Predator franchises. It completely overlooks continuity(set forth by those films), and the director is a hack by the name of Paul Anderson(Mortal Kombat, Resident Evil, Soldier, and Event Horizon(which I consider his only decent film)). If you hated AvsP, then you're going to love the sequel. 
If the script review I read is true, then it takes place in Texas and a bunch of stereotypical type characters do battle with the Predien hybrid thing that was born at the end of AVP. I think there's even a scene that takes place in a Wal-mart of a type of store like it.
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making a remake puts you into a difficult situation because people know the stories
Yeah, but they aren't remaking anything. There are 70 years worth of Batman plots. Literally, thousands of potential directions or inspirations to choose. They aren't remaking the 89-97 movies. Batman Begins was primarily based on 3 comics stories(The Long Halloween for Scarecrow, Year One for the basic premise, and the other I forget...it's from the 70s but it's one of the early days of Bruce Wayne stories and shows how he trained. Anyway, the first hour training portions of BB is inspired by that).
