From the most recent Emipre mag…
For the next Batman
Nolan still hasn’t officially signed on to direct the next “Batman” and he says its due to workload -
His brother Jonah is currently working on the script and Nolan is excited about it because he “particularly like(s) where we are taking the characters and what the ending is… There are things for me to be very excited about in addressing the characters again.”
He once again confirmed that the film will essentially be the capper of a trilogy rather than a random third entry - “the finishing of a story rather than infinitely blowing up the balloon and expanding the story.”
He “emphatically and unhesitatingly” said we will NOT see the return of The Joker with someone else taking on the late Heath Ledger’s role
On a Crossover
What about a DC style superhero teacup project? No chance. “Superman is very specifically superpowered and obviously otherworldly; Batman is very human and flawed… there’s an elemental feeling of power in the iconography of those characters. To me that’s originally because they stood alone. I need to hang on to that in my imagining of them.”
Superman
Nolan says David Goyer pitched him a new approach to the Man of Steel one day, and Nolan “thought it was really tremendous. It was the first time I had been able to conceive of how you would address Superman in a modern context.”
He took that idea to Warners, they liked it and now “It’s something we were just trying to put together a vision for, and then find the right person to take it forward… it’s not something for me to direct.”
