Nolan on Superman and Batman Ends?

It sounded like fanboy wishful thinking, but no… Christopher Nolan talks to The LA Times about his plans as the new movie godftaher of DC’s top two

And now, in The LA Times , he finally talks about his new role, revealing some interesting titbits about how he landed the dual role and his plans for both the Superman reboot and his third Batman film.

“He basically told me, ‘I have this thought about how you would approach Superman,’” Nolan recalls. “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.’ I wanted to get [wife and producer] Emma [Thompson] and I involved in shepherding the project right away and getting it to the studio and getting it going in an exciting way.”

Meanwhile, that impasse Goyer and Nolan reached over the next Batman movie has also been breached, though he seems pretty adamant this will be his last time overseeing a movie version of Gotham’s masked anti-hero: “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. We have a great ensemble, that’s one of the attractions of doing another film, since we’ve been having a great time for years.”

Dave is a TV and film journalist who specializes in the science fiction and fantasy genres. He's written books about film posters and post-apocalypses, alongside writing for SFX Magazine for many years.