While I am getting emails telling me Nolan is officially directing and writing Superman, I have to tell you that just isn’t true. At least not yet. It seems that his partner David Goyer who is writing Batman 3 has a pitch in mind for the Man of Steel and it has Nolan excited, but he isn’t signed on to direct or help Goyer write.
He is still just being considered the Godfather to Kal-El, offering a watchful eye over the property development. However he did speak on the subject and talked about Batman 3 to the LA Times
Worst Previews quotes:
Apparently Nolan and writer David Goyer were working on ideas for “Batman 3” when “Superman” discussions started. “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 [wife Emma Thomas] and I involved in shepherding the project right away and getting it to the studio and getting it going in an exciting way.”
Goyer and brother Jonathan Nolan are now finishing up the script for “Batman 3,” which will be the last installment in the franchise. “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,” Nolan said. “And in viewing it as the finishing of a story rather than infinitely blowing up the balloon and expanding the story.”
Nolan backing both Superman and moving ahead with Batman3 is exciting news indeed.
I have full trust in Nolan that he will handle Superman with the most delicate of care, and while he is only producing/advising, his input and vision will certainly steer the film. But it is amusing to think that if anyone OTHER than Nolan said “a way of approaching the story I’ve never seen before” the fanboys would be in panic mode already wondering if they were going to “rape their childhood!”
And his approach to Batman 3 sounds kind of final making me wonder if he is going to end his run with the cape and cowl with this third film. He says this will “finish our story” which could easily mean this shaping of the hero he becomes. He doesn’t want to expand the universe of Batman, but perhaps his vision originally extended just to get Bats to a certain point in his career and then he would be done with the story.
