Chris Nolan is rightfully considered a God among nerds for resurrecting the Batman franchise Joel Schumacher killed, burned, and pissed on. Naturally, he’d be the first choice to handle any comic-book franchise. And now…
EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros is trying to ready its DC Comics stalwart Superman to soar again on the Big Screen, and the studio has turned to Chris Nolan to mentor development of the movie. Our insiders say that the brains behind rebooted Batman has been asked to play a “godfather” role and ensure The Man Of Steel gets off the ground after a 3 1/2-year hiatus.
Let us emphasize that Superman 3.0 is in the early stages of development. And we doubt Nolan would direct. This wouldn’t be a sequel to Superman Returns but a completely fresh franchise. [DHD]
If it pans out, this seems like the best thing they could possibly do with Superman. Then again, that’s what I said about getting Bryan Singer to direct Superman Returns, and we all know how that turned out. GRRR, OVERCOMING KRYPTONITE WITH SHEER WILL POWER!
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but will it have a giant spider in the 3rd act?
I want a Peter Porker, The Amazing Spider-Ham film in 3-D.
’nuff said.
Superman speaks like he has throat cancer or GTFO.
Yet another Superman reboot? More like Man of Stale.
*lays back down under trash bag in the corner, huffs more paint*
There’s a comic artist who draws Superman as Christopher Reeve.
That’s cool, as long as he doesn’t draw Batman as Michael Keaton.
Does this mean that Nic Cage will finally get his shot to play the man of steele?
Fuck no! What are you, mental?
Can we replace reboot with do-over?
In other Superman news, Margot Kidder ate my mailbox yesterday.
If a mentor is supposed to make something not suck, my Big Brothers of America mentor was doing it wrong.
Psst, Spacetraveler is back to defend Avatards.
[filmdrunk.uproxx.com]
Chris Nolan got stuck doing this because when he was at the last DGA get together and the head of DC asked who would help, he was the last one to stick his thumb on his forehead.
“There’s a comic artist who draws Superman as Christopher Reeve.”
What are his superpowers, blinking and drooling?
“a completely fresh franchise” is Hollywoodese for “reanimating the corpse of an 80 year old character that’s been fucked to death.”
Why so derivative?
Five words:
Terrence. Stamp. As. Zod. Returns.
I know David Goyer is going to want to direct this. I saw into the future.
Allison Brie should play Lois Lane
Superman needs to unboot and then reboot because he put his undies on over his tights.
bex, I couldn’t agree more.
(apologies to chelle07)
What are his superpowers, blinking and drooling?
He can use his super breath to make his chair go 10 mph.
What are his superpowers, blinking and drooling?
They’re casting Cam Gigandet?
Nerp!