Christopher Nolan Doing What WB/DC Can't - Get Justice League Going?
Mon, March 4, 2013 
"How do we go up against... that!?"
There is little doubt that was the question Burbank executives asked themselves following The Avengers' monumental success last summer.
Made worse by the fact their counterpoint to the Marvel juggernaut, Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy was wrapping up before their very eyes. So while The Dark Knight Rises was the mega financial bread-winner as expected, Warner Brothers was back at Square One and no closer to Justice League, the logical answer to The Avengers.
Lots of chatter, lots of attempts and lots of directors offered with no bites at the apple. They're in a corner they can't get themselves out of. And like three years ago as they sat powerless (in this case, directionless) over what to do with Superman in order to keep the rights on their home-turf, they're turning to a familiar and reliable face to get them out of their rut.
Christopher Nolan.
Latino Review reports Nolan will anchor (ahem "Godfather" – remember that term bantered about in 2010) a Superman/Batman feature to the silver screen. It could be Justice League. It could be World's Finest. The important part is its Krypton's Last Son and the World's Greatest Detective together for the first time at the multiplexes. And like Bats trapped against the Gotham police with a drugged-up Rachel Dawes, Nolan's brought backup. Well... maybe. They speculate David Goyer could write, Zack Snyder (with his fresh, and looking like victory based on the buzz, bruises from The Man of Steel) could direct.
And Christian Bale could come back as Batman. That is the key selling point. Bale is Batman in the eyes of the public, more so after all the charity work he's done since the release of The Dark Knight Rises. And the goodwill left over from the concluding Batman chapter is high with the general public.
But would both Nolan and Bale be willing to essentially retcon the ending to their own story? That they swore to the highest of heavens for the last three years, especially last year during the heavy press circuits, was the final hurrah?
Money talks and stranger things have happen (Bryan Singer is back at 20th Century Fox making X-Men pictures, Michael Bay and Megan Fox are working together again).
Reader Comments (1)
Could be FANTASTIC if true. I'd like to let the Nolan-verse lie, but if they come up with a killer story then great. I'd like to see a World's Finest movie first as these two are the big draws anyway and it seems that would be the easier movie to move on right now. You can end the film with a bigger threat approaching which will set up JL for later. Batman and Superman on their own are enough to take on the Avengers. The Justice League (if done right) would allow WB/DC to dominate. The Avengers are hot right now, but we all GREW UP on the Justice League in one form or another. For me it was the Superfriends, for the younger generation it was Justice League/JLU.