Christopher Nolan's Involvement in Superman Reboot "Nothing But Rumor"
Posted 02.19.10 by BrentJS
Comic book movie fans everywhere were practically jumping for joy after Deadline Hollywood announced the news that director Christopher Nolan, the man responsible for revitalizing the Batman movie franchise by stripping away the neon glitz and bat-nipples of the Joel Schumacher era, had been tapped by Warner Bros. to "Godfather" the reboot of the Superman franchise.
Nolan's leadership of the project can set it in the right direction with the critics and the fans, not to mention at the box office.
The only problem? It turns out that the "news" wasn't actually news after all. In a recent MTV interview, Diane Nelson, president of DC Entertainment, the comic book division of Warner Bros., discussed the recent restructuring of DC Comics' executive team and said that Nolan's participation in any future Superman movie is only a rumor.
We don't have any plans about that, and as I've mentioned, in the coming months we'll be making a lot of announcements about what our content plans will be. But right now, that's nothing but rumor — and we frankly don't say a whole lot more about rumor than that, so...