Christopher Nolan Is The Only Screenwriter Currently Attached To Next Batfilm
Let’s stop calling the next Batman filmBatman 3, shall we? Let’s just call it the next Batman film – or TNBF, if you want. That’ll do. The Batman films didn’t start withBegins, you know. Not nearly.
IGNhave discovered a tiny crumb of info on TNBF that is bound to fuel speculation. According to their detective work, the only screenwriter formally attached to the project isChristopher Nolan.
IGN’s source was an official document from Warner Bros. to “a guild”, presumably the WGA. Studios are obliged to inform all guilds with the work lists of those toiling on their projects, and somehow one of these was intercepted by Bothans on the IGN friendlist.
This suggests to me that the project is at the sketchiest of sketchy treatment phases right now and I’ll speculate that another writer or writers will be named once any fleshing out takes place and, heck, I’ll go out on a ledge and say this other writer will be Jonathan Nolan and this time, David Goyer won’t be on board. Idle speculation, that’s all. That’s all there is to do at the moment.
In other TNBF non-news,Batman-on-Filmhave alleged that Nolan’s deal forInceptionincludes a Batman clause, shackling him to the cash cow that laid a giant egg for at least that one more go around. This claim has already been given the old non-denial denial atMTVbut the one-for-them, one-for-me negotiation doesn’t seem entirely improbable. What does derail the claim a little is that Batman-on-Film name David and Jonathan and not Christopher as formally engaged writers, suggesting the exact opposite of IGN’s evidence.
