Nolan talks Batman 3 and Superman

Nolan can’t do anything wrong these days, he’s easily one of the best directors out there at the moment. We’ve been waiting on some official Batman news for a while (we kinda gathered afther the success of the last one, he’s be on it!) but its the Superman news that has us suprised here at filmtwats. Before it was just an unconfirmed rumour, now Nolan has admited he and David Goyer have had some ideas.  

LA TIMES Reports:

On Batman 3

“My brother is writing a script for me and we’ll wait to see how it turns out…. He’s struggling to put it together into the epic story that you want it to be.”

“Batman Begins” was the origin and back story of the hero, while “The Dark Knight” found the hero reeling as his Manichean, good vs. evil worldview was upended by a new villain, the Joker, who was a wild-card agent of chaos going up against order, be it a police department or the mob. The second film ends, literally, with Batman on the run, a fugitive. 

 “Without getting into specifics, the key thing that makes the third film a great possibility for us is that we want to finish our story,” he said. “And in viewing it as the finishing of a story rather than infinitely blowing up the balloon and expanding the story.”

Perhaps. But the great challenge is to find a villain (or villains) who can not only match up with the Caped Crusader but also with Heath Ledger’s Academy Award-winning portrayal of the scabby, demented Joker. Fans have churned up the rumor mill for months now (Johnny Depp as the Riddler? Angelina Jolie as Catwoman? Philip Seymour Hoffman as the Penguin? Ben Kingsley as Hugo Strange?). But Nolan, no fan of letting cats out of the bag, declined to play along.

His villain choices to date have steered clear of strongly supernatural or super-science characters (no Man-Bat, Mr. Freeze or Poison Ivy, for instance) but he shook his head when asked if that was a trajectory he would continue. He did however concede one tidbit: “It won’t be,” he said, “Mr. Freeze.”

 On Superman

Goyer gave the filmmaker a daydream version of how he would tackle a story about the last son of Krypton.

“He basically told me, ‘I have this thought about how you would approach Superman,’” Nolan recalled. “I immediately got it, loved it and thought: That is a way of approaching the story I’ve never seen before that makes it incredibly exciting. I wanted to get Emma and I involved in shepherding the project right away and getting it to the studio and getting it going in an exciting way.”

Goyer is now writing the screenplay and Nolan is keeping it close to the vest.

Man, I’m excited the fact there going to cap off the Batman trilgoy this is great news, it can go in my great trilogy collection along with Back to the Future and the original Star Wars. I’m glad they’ve got balls to actually end the story, which is something we’ve never seen before in a superhero franchise and I’m glad that my favorite hero will get a good send off! Its not like they’ll never do some kind of “reimagining” in the future, but at least this story gets to be told. As for the Superman franchise, well if Christopher Nolan has something to do with it…. count me in!