Christopher Nolan (Batman Begins, Dark Knight) To Direct Next Superman Movie

Christoper Nolan, the director for both Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, has been tagged by Warner Bros to take the helm in the next live action Superman movie. The decision was primarily due to the Dark Knight’s box office success, which brought in over $1 BILLION dollars worldwide along with the fact that Supes 3.0 has been sitting on the shelf FOR THREE FRIGGIN’ YEARS!

Nolan To Direct Superman

People criticize the less than stellar success of Bryan Singer’s Superman Returns, which only brought in $391 million, but they seem to forget that Batman Begins didn’t even hit that benchmark, bringing in only $372 million; not as much as X-Men Origins: Wolverine, but a little more than The Golden Compass.  Gooo Bryan!

But, it gets even more better! Not only are we going to be seeing Big Blue up in the sky again, but Christopher Nolan’s brother, Jonathan “Jonah” Nolan, and David Goyer (who both co-wrote Batman Begins and penned The Dark Knight) are off scripting the 3rd Batman movie!! YEAH BABY!!

But, and this one big BUT, I tell you what, the big question on everyone’s mind is, “… what are you going to do about the Joker?”  Now, Heath Ledger’s performance, compounded with his unfortunate and untimely death, has made the Joker issue an almost haloed ground for both hard-to-please-uber-comic-geeks and movie goers of all ages.

Heath Ledger, The Joker

Ledger…. well… he nailed it.  Friggin’ nailed it.  One of the few bits of acknowledged perfection seen in any of the superhero movies thus far.  And his Joker wasn’t just a clone off of the comic pages, no! Nor was it some hair-brained, off the wall concept created by someone who doesn’t “get it” (like the conception of organic web-shooters and talons on Spidey’s finger tips).  No, Heath… *sniff… wipes eyes…* he gave us something that we didn’t even know we were asking for, much less wanted or needed. He gave us a rare opportunity to effortlessly suspend our disbelief as The Joker does his thing on screen.  … Heath gave us magic.

And sure as shite, Warner Bros is going to screw this sacred ground to high heaven!  Or, they’re going to take the coward’s way out and not even have Joker in the next movie… $5 bucks says they chicken out.

In the event you’re interested, Legendary Pictures (co-produced/co-financed Superman Returns, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight) is partnering with Warner Bros for both up coming hero movies.  Ooooo I can’t wait!!!

Bye Bye Toby, We'll Miss You

But… if you look behind the curtain, you’ll see that WB/DC just might be following in the footsteps of Marvel.  Remember the Spider-Man movies I, II & III? We’ll, Marvel Mouse decided to reboot the entire story from scratch.  Yuppers! Parker is going to be back in high school as a teen, kinda like Spidey’s version of Smallville.  Can anyone say, “OOPS! We can’t get it right the first, three times so we decided to scratch all of it and redo it again, but this time fer reals… like the Hulk.. but more better!” Remember The Hulk? … not the first one, the second remake with Ed Norton.  Yeah, yet another incident of not nailing it right and getting all of us to buy yet ANOTHER ticket to a newer version of the same story told to us again.  Who’s the idiot there? The ones making the movies or the ones buying the tickets the second time around hoping it’ll get better. … kinda like dating an ex.

Hulk Reboot With Ed Norton, "Don't make me hungry, ... you won't like me when I'm hungry!"

Well, Warner Bros is doing the same thing with Superman 3.0.   It’s not supposed to be a sequel to Superman Returns, directed by Bryan Singer (who did the X-Men and X2 movies) which means it won’t have Brandon Routh playing Clark. They’re just starting from scratch again.

I don’t get it! Do these over payed movie makers know what the heck they even want?? Well, as an insider told Deadline.com, “We know what we don’t want to do. But we don’t know what we want to do. We learned a lot from the last movie, and we want to get it right this time.”

Apparently not.

Come on people!  You take me and 3 other comic geeks, throw us in a room full of pizza, root beer, unlimited World of Warcraft, comics and strippers and we could hammer out a perfect, FLAWLESS movie that would not only adhere to the spaghetti continuity from the comics but would also be entertaining to the entire family and sell lights out.  LIGHTS OUT I tell you! You would think, THINK, that these overpaid writers, directors and producers could make something right the first time. Bah!….

Flawed or not I still can’t wait for the next Supes, Bats and Spidey movies!! :)  Till then… guess it’s just more pizza, Warcraft and strippers!  Yeah baby!!