Christopher Nolan FINALLY talks about Batman 3, as well as the Superman movie he's producing
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Information comes from The Los Angeles Times... sadly they're preventing people from seeing the full interview online, you have to buy the paper to read the whole thing, and can only read a condensed/edited version on the web. So thankfully Garth over at Dark Horizons condensed all the salient bits for us, and here is the information of interest, courtesy of DH:
Batman 3
Jonathan Nolan is working on the script at present, based on a story concept from David Goyer - "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.”
Though he won't confirm if he will direct, the main appeal for Nolan to return is to give his creation an ending, making his work unfold in the classic film trilogy mold: "Batman Begins" (re)introducing the characters, "The Dark Knight" taking our protagonist and Gotham City to the brink, and a third one essentially resolving everything.
"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 and in viewing it as the finishing of a story rather than infinitely blowing up the balloon and expanding the story” says Nolan who won't even hint at the villain beyond one possibility - "it won't be Mr. Freeze".
Nolan says he's "very excited about the end of the film, the conclusion, and what we’ve done with the characters... viewing it as an ending, that sets you very much on the right track about the appropriate conclusion and the essence of what tale we’re telling and it hearkens back to that priority of trying to find the reality in these fantastic stories."
Superman
“It’s very exciting, we have a fantastic story and we feel we can do it right. We know the milieu, if you will, we know the genre and how to get it done right” says Nolan.
Unlike Bryan Singer's "Superman Returns" which owed a lot to Richard Donner's vision of the character in the earlier movies, Nolan's plans however will stand as their own approach.
That approach actually came from writer David Goyer who is penning the script. Goyer told his approach to Nolan who said "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." Goyer is writing the script. He previously wrote "Batman Begins" as well as coming up with the story for/doing a polish re-write on "The Dark Knight" for Nolan.
Off-handedly he shoots down rumors of his involvement in a "Justice League" movie as he believes his Superman will exist in a different world to that of his Batman - "Each serves to the internal logic of the story. They have nothing to do with each other."
He also shoots down reports of his brother helming the Superman film, saying he has no idea who will direct the project, but clarifies that his involvement will be akin to Peter Jackson's hands-on producing roles on Neill Blomkamp's "District 9" and Guillermo del Toro's "The Hobbit".
Information comes from The Los Angeles Times... sadly they're preventing people from seeing the full interview online, you have to buy the paper to read the whole thing, and can only read a condensed/edited version on the web. So thankfully Garth over at Dark Horizons condensed all the salient bits for us, and here is the information of interest, courtesy of DH:
Batman 3
Jonathan Nolan is working on the script at present, based on a story concept from David Goyer - "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.”
Though he won't confirm if he will direct, the main appeal for Nolan to return is to give his creation an ending, making his work unfold in the classic film trilogy mold: "Batman Begins" (re)introducing the characters, "The Dark Knight" taking our protagonist and Gotham City to the brink, and a third one essentially resolving everything.
"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 and in viewing it as the finishing of a story rather than infinitely blowing up the balloon and expanding the story” says Nolan who won't even hint at the villain beyond one possibility - "it won't be Mr. Freeze".
Nolan says he's "very excited about the end of the film, the conclusion, and what we’ve done with the characters... viewing it as an ending, that sets you very much on the right track about the appropriate conclusion and the essence of what tale we’re telling and it hearkens back to that priority of trying to find the reality in these fantastic stories."
Superman
“It’s very exciting, we have a fantastic story and we feel we can do it right. We know the milieu, if you will, we know the genre and how to get it done right” says Nolan.
Unlike Bryan Singer's "Superman Returns" which owed a lot to Richard Donner's vision of the character in the earlier movies, Nolan's plans however will stand as their own approach.
That approach actually came from writer David Goyer who is penning the script. Goyer told his approach to Nolan who said "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." Goyer is writing the script. He previously wrote "Batman Begins" as well as coming up with the story for/doing a polish re-write on "The Dark Knight" for Nolan.
Off-handedly he shoots down rumors of his involvement in a "Justice League" movie as he believes his Superman will exist in a different world to that of his Batman - "Each serves to the internal logic of the story. They have nothing to do with each other."
He also shoots down reports of his brother helming the Superman film, saying he has no idea who will direct the project, but clarifies that his involvement will be akin to Peter Jackson's hands-on producing roles on Neill Blomkamp's "District 9" and Guillermo del Toro's "The Hobbit".