I for one really enjoyed the most recent Batman film mainly because, in my opinion, it treated the source material with more reverance than any other Batman movie and I appreciated how faithful it was despite some deviances. If they are on track to making more films, perhaps a whole series of films, how long can they continue without establishing the Batfamily?
I feel that Batman in media will suffer the less and less we see the Batfamily and Bruce interacting with the rest of the family. There is the Gotham Knights game coming out, but Batman isn't even in it. Titans has a lot of Batman supporting characters, but Bruce Wayne himself barely appears. I think with live action media in particular these producers seem like they're wary of showing a character like Batman interacting with young people, or being a father/guardian figure, but without that, they are cutting themselves off from so much of what makes up the character of Bruce Wayne. I feel that Batman on his own, the brooding loner, will start to get stale.
That's not to say there aren't still plenty of great stories they can do that don't involve the Batfamily, but it's been almost 60 years of Batman films and the best representation they've had in that entire time is in the 66 film. The more I see any movie or show without Batman working with the rest of the family just has me losing interest.
I don't think there would need to be any huge tonal shifts from the Batman in order to introduce characters like Dick, Jason, Barbara, Cassandra, etc, nor do I think adjustments in tone would be inappropriate. I just think it's been too long that we haven't seen this crucial aspect of Batman explored much in live action films.
What are everyone's thoughts?