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!

(“Where ya goin’?  Doncha wanna see what a one-eared elephant looks like?”)

With Memento, Insomnia, The Prestige, Batman Begins, and Dark Knight, Chris Nolan has one of the best track records in Hollywood (Nick Nolte has the best track marks).  His next film is called Inception, and in what is sure to warm fanboys’ harbls, he says it’s the “biggest” film he’s ever made.  From the LA Times:

“I grew up watching James Bond films and loving those and watching spy movies with their globetrotting sensibility…. We get to do that here, not just geographically but also in time and dimensions of reality as well. We get to make a movie that’s expansive, I suppose you’d say, in four dimensions.”

“This is the biggest challenge I’ve taken on to this point,” said Nolan, who may return to Gotham City for his next feature. “We’re trying to tell a story on a massive scale, a true blockbuster scale – the biggest I’ve ever been involved with. We tried to make a very large-scale film with ‘The Dark Knight’ and with this one we wanted to push that even further.”

So Chris Nolan thinks this movie will be huge.  But keep in mind, Chris Nolan is British, and over there a “large” soda means like half a can.  This is costing me $10, right?  32 ounces or GTFO, what do I look like, the Dalai Lama?

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  Heath would have wanted it this way.

A few weeks ago, Gary Oldman let it slip that the next Batman film would begin shooting next year.  Michael Caine, in an interview last March, said he believed the Riddler would be involved in this one, which added more fuel to ridiculous rumors like the one about Eddie Murphy playing the Riddler.  Well, hold on to your goofy hats because here’s another steaming pile of speculation coming at you. 

Cinefools just reported that director Chris Nolan has dropped out of filming for The Prisoner, which was 1 of 2 movies he was set to film before the 3rd Batman.  With 1 less film in production, shooting for the 3rd Batman may start sooner.  Here’s 4 other numbers I forgot to cram into this 1 paragraph: 18, 32, 8, 69, HIKE!

As for The Prisoner, it may have a tougher time moving ahead without Nolan attache– OH WHO CARES?  BATMAN!!!

~ robopanda

Sorry, folks, those are the rules – Batman sequel news, no matter how small or unconfirmed, means I have to drop everything and cover it.  The word out of Comic Con (from various sites) is that a not-at-all-joking-sounding Gary Oldman said that the next Batman begins shooting next year, “but you didn’t hear it from me.”  …And that’s pretty much the whole story.  Meanwhile, no one has said anything about director Chris Nolan coming back, and with him busy shooting Inception, it’s hard to say whether he’d have time to shoot a Batman sequel, if what Oldman says is even true.  So does that mean they’re hiring a new director?  Yes.  Yes they are.  Brett Ratner will come aboard to direct, Christian Bale will be replaced by Will Smith’s son, Cher plays his love interest, and Shia LaBeouf will play the villain, a midget prostitute that murders.

This one’s just called “No One Wants to Play Sega with Harrison Ford.”  Artwork by Brandon Bird.

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