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Christopher Nolan Reveals Whether Or Not He’ll Be Involved In The Justice League Movie

by Jill Pantozzi | 11:02 am, July 9th, 2012


Director Christopher Nolan was honored over the weekend at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. He joined countless film and television icons by immortalizing his hand and foot prints in cement on Hollywood Boulevard’s Walk of Fame. But the bigger news today is the definitive answer the director gave as to his involvement in Warner Bros. Justice League film. Hit the jump to find out if he’s in or out. 

Nolan is very close to done with his Batman work, what with The Dark Knight Rises heading to theaters in less than two weeks now. The director has stated time and time again that he won’t work on any further Batman films after this but he’s not exactly done with the DC Universe. We already know he’s producing Zack Snyder’s Superman reboot Man of Steel, but will he have a hand in Justice League?

The answer is, sadly, no.

Nolan definitively told Entertainment Weekly: “I’ve got no plans to do anything more, and certainly, no involvement with any Justice League project.”

Well that’s certainly a bummer. Not that we’d want a Justice League film to play out like Nolan’s Batman, but he certainly has a knack for great storytelling and has a superb box office track record so far. But something tells me Justice League is going to be far removed from Nolan’s trilogy.

Warner Bros. has already tapped writers for the Justice League project and has several other superhero projects in development but Nolan may finally be out of the comic book game following Man of Steel. That is, unless Man of Steel is a hit and warrants a sequel.

But let’s not get ahead of ourselves.

One thing is for sure, Nolan knows how the machine works and accepts that Batman will eventually be done by someone else.

“Batman will outlive us all, and our interpretation was ours. Obviously, we consider it definitive and kind of finished,” he said. “The great thing about Batman is he lives on for future generations to reinterpret, and obviously, Warners will have to decide in the future what they’re going to do with him. We’ve had our say on the character.”

As to his big Hollywood honor, ComingSoon.net reported on what Nolan had to say. ”There is something about the permanence of these things. I’m standing on Clint Eastwood’s name right now and there’s something about knowing that he actually wrote that,” the director said. “There’s something very interesting about that phenomenon of trying to preserve something and trying to hang onto it.”

(via DC Women Kicking Ass)

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  • Katie Marinelli

    I know I’m one of the minority but this makes me glad. I never really liked his Batman movies, it felt like he got the first layer of who Batman was and then didn’t go further than that. Plus the whole ‘non magic/superpowered’ world bothered me because one of Batman’s biggest things was being ‘just a man, but able to take down the strongest superpowered villains’. 

  • Anonymous

     I half-agree with you. Because I really do love a lot of what Nolan has done with the series (especially with the supporting characters of Alfred, Two-face/Harvey Dent, Rachel, Commissioner Gordon, Joker).

    But on the other hand, it’s easy to overlook some of the big faults (Rachel getting fridged, Batman’s voice, Whitewashing Ra’s and Bane no matter how much I adore Liam Neeson.) because his series is comparatively better than any other live-action Batman movie. Even my favorite of the original movies, Batman Returns, really betrays it’s excellent, quality moments with scenes of wtf camp.

    In any case, I’m always glad to see how people tackle Batman. It’s one of those franchises I’m okay with seeing rebooted and having different people tackle. Especially since it’s so well-known that hopefully we won’t get another origin story with the reboot. (Batman Begins is one of the few superhero origin movies I can tolerate along.)

  • Anonymous

    Has batman ever been the interesting character of Gotham? I ask as someone who has not read any of the Batman comics. I have seen most of the animated shows and films. It seems like the other characters are what made Batman interesting. Such as with the Joker in Nolan’s film; how do you respond to such a lunatic, more akin to an animal than a man.

    As for the magic/superpowers, I will have to agree to disagree. I think there is room for excluding and including them in various imaginings of Batman. I think Nolan handled this quite well.

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