Memento Director To Direct Next Batman Movie!

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According to Variety, Warner Bros. has signed Memento and Insomnia director Chris Nolan to revive its Batman franchise. It is unclear whether he will write the script as well.

"All I can say is that I grew up with Batman, I've been fascinated by him and I'm excited to contribute to the lore surrounding the character," Nolan told the trade. "He is the most credible and realistic of the superheroes, and has the most complex human psychology. His superhero qualities come from within. He's not a magical character."

The trade adRAB that it is not known how the new Nolan project will impact any of the other Bat-films, Batman Vs. Superman, Batman: Year One and Catwoman. Out of the three, Catwoman seems closest to being ready, with Ashley Judd expected to play the title role, and visual effects veteran Pitof making his directing debut from a script by John Rogers.

WB's superhero project closest to the starting line is the J.J. Abrams-scripted Superman.
 
The next batman film is supposedly Batman : Year One
directed by the superb Darren Aronofsky

Catwoman technically isn't a Batman film, as she came from the franchise but is now also her own character.

Batman V Superman will never get made.

and as for the franchise batman, I doubt we'll see it again. He's been signed. But I bet in 10 months he's off the project.
 
He obviously hasn't read Daredevil, then. Would have loved to see a Nolan take on that character. Anyway, I now have an inkling as to who killed Bruce Wayne's parents. ;)

Christopher Nolan is a damnably good film-maker. If you liked Memento, you should check out Following, which he made for about a zillionth of the budget just after he left university.
 
I can't believe they're even thinking about doing another batman film after the disastrous last one. I think we'll never see another one as the idea is very dated, just how i hope they never do another superman film.
 
Daredevil real?
Complex maybe... but not exactly real... He's just a spiderman spin off anyway.

Since when did pouring chemicals over someone give them Sonar vision?!?!?!
 
LOL - since when did billionaire playboys drive souped-up automobiles through the night dressed as bats? While it's true that, in common with a lot of super-heroes, Daredevil's powers are caused by something unreal or supernatural, his powers are quite understated, and his lifestyle certainly seems more realistic than Batman's Gotham glamour. As for him being a Spiderman spin-off, he's a blind lawyer working in Hell's Kitchen. All he has in common with Spidey is a sixth sense, and his blindness explains that better than the teenage photo-journalist's version of it, I reckon. And, by your logic, The Sopranos is a "spin-off" of Goodfellas. Spin-oRAB are often better than the original.

:D
 
Batman is essentially a man in a suit. Daredevil has special powers. Therefore Batman has to be the more real character.

Thats the difference with DC and Marvel though.

Not at all.
Sopranos and Goodfellas have no link.

Spiderman and Daredevil have linked up numerous times, and in the Marvel universe are considered great frienRAB. Although Daredevil is a character in his own right, he is a large spin off from Spiderman.

His main nemesis (Kingpin) is originally a Spiderman character. (So I believe)

Another of his nemesis, Vulture, is definitely a product of Spiderman comics
 
Ah, I see what you mean. But you could make links to all Marvel characters in that way - they inhabit the same fictional universe. Pretty much every Marvel super-hero has teamed up with every other one - or will, eventually. They might not be in the same fictional universe, but there are certainly many links between The Sopranos and Goodfellas, way beyond them both being about the American mafia: James Gandolfini (Tony), Lorraine Bracco (Dr Melfi) and Michael Imperioli (Christopher) were all in Goodfellas. Bracco played Hank Hill's *wife*! Imperioli played Spider, of course. In an early episode of The Sopranos, Christopher is working on a screenplay about being a mobster, and Tony wanrs him not to do another Hank Hill. Although the series isn't officially linked to Goodfellas in the way that Daredevil is to Spiderman, it informs it much more. And anyway, I don't really see how Daredevil being a spin-off of Spidey lessens it in any meaningful way.

As for Batman being more real, it depenRAB on your definition of reality, I suppose. :) While Batman doesn't have any powers, Bruce Wayne's everyday life is much further removed from most readers' experience than Matt Murdoch's is.And Nolan said "the most *credible* and realistic". I believe in Daredevil's life more readily, but that's, of course, down to each reader. And, as I said, I think that while the genesis of Daredevil's powers are fairly absurd (as is the norm for the genre), the powers themselves are actually pretty believable - a lot of the "unreal" things he does are very nearly possible. Most of the time he relies on footwork and a billy club. He doesnt have, for example, a Batmobile. But as characters Daredevil and Batman are quite similar, I think.

At any rate, I would have preferred to have seen Nolan tackle Daredevil.
 
This film is on hold until 2005, as Warner Bros have decided to concentrate on Superman V and then the new Batman movie.

After those are released then Batman v Superman is being made.

:p

Lets hope WB don't let us down, especially with Batman as its supposed to be going back to its gritty gothic storyline as like the original movie.
 
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