I remember him saying it was the best thing he had ever written and for ages, I have been wondering what it would have been like. He also said it was gonna be from when he was born till his death.

Well I think it could be an unreliable narrator like Memento and The Prestige, with Hughes narrating and film in non-linear like the other two.


1. So I think it would have started off with his relationship with his mother (As I think she suffered with OCD as well)
2. A scene where he builds a radio transmitter when he's eleven and moving on to a motorcycle when he's 12 and so on.
3. His parent’s early death and taking control of his father’s empire.
4. Trying to break into the film industry, making some early successful films and being laughed at for trying to make Hell's Angels.
5. Buying RKO pictures and his relationships with women
6.His accident where he crashed a plane in Beverly Hills
7.Building the Hercules and the Watergate scandal
8.His OCD starting to be obvious to the public and the intense rivalry to Trans world airlines which he eventually acquires.
9. His time buying casinos in Las Vegas
10. Then his death with the big revel of his now final physical state as he comes out of the darkness. The Hughes narrating the film is shown as http://www.solarnavigator.net/inventors ... e_1976.jpg

I think it would be a fantastic film if it’s in Nolan’s hands, especially how he dealt with Anterograde amnesia Memento.

How do you guys think he would have done Mr. Hughes?

All I know is I really want to either read the script or see this thing get made.

Well, having seen The Aviator which caused Nolan to shelve the project in the first place, I don't know how similar or disimilar the two films would have been unless the script leaks or he decides to make the film. Nolan also wrote the script without seeing The Aviator so I don't know how much he'd change it if he tackled it in the future.

I think a "cradle to the grave" approach would be a brilliant take on the film as The Aviator focused solely on his adult career. Hughes' obsessive-comulsive disorder could also be shown from his childhood where it's roots lay and his degrading mental condition in his later life.

Nolan usually excells at crafting "obsessive" characters and Howard Hughes is an embodiment of that affliction. He was a very interesting person and Nolan could make the film more grounded (pun intended) than The Aviator which I felt was a bit theatrical in parts.

One things is for sure, if Nolan did take on Mr. Hughes in the future it may very well be his most ambitious undertaking.

Yeah even though the Aviator is a cracking film, I didn't really feel it was a realistic or true account of Howard Huhes. He was really horrible to his actresses while in charge of RKO for example, had really negative thoughts about some people and their religion.
I also felt Noah Dietrich (Played by John C Reilly) did far more for Howard Hughes than the film potrayed. But the Aviator at the moment is the best feature film about Howard Hughes, the other are rubbish in my view.
But I think if it was a more true potrayal of him and from his early years to his death, it would be a better a film.
So in a way I wish Nolan made this film, but I really liked Batman Begins and I would want that as well lol.

I want my Ice cream and my candy lol.

True. Even though I thought The Aviator was brilliant, it appeared a bit too dramatized in parts. I think Nolan can bring it down to earth and make it feel more genuine.

I think I read this somewhere, didn't Nolan say he incorporated parts of his Howard Hughes script into Batman Begins?

I watched The Aviator a few weeks ago, though I liked it, I think Nolan would have approached it better

I still don't see why he can't make his own (if it's a lot different) a few years from now.

Eternalist wrote:Well, having seen The Aviator which caused Nolan to shelve the project in the first place, I don't know how similar or disimilar the two films would have been unless the script leaks or he decides to make the film. Nolan also wrote the script without seeing The Aviator so I don't know how much he'd change it if he tackled it in the future.

I think a "cradle to the grave" approach would be a brilliant take on the film as The Aviator focused solely on his adult career. Hughes' obsessive-comulsive disorder could also be shown from his childhood where it's roots lay and his degrading mental condition in his later life.

Nolan usually excells at crafting "obsessive" characters and Howard Hughes is an embodiment of that affliction. He was a very interesting person and Nolan could make the film more grounded (pun intended) than The Aviator which I felt was a bit theatrical in parts.

One things is for sure, if Nolan did take on Mr. Hughes in the future it may very well be his most ambitious undertaking.

I thought Nolan and Scorsese competed for the job and eventually Scorsese's script got picked

No they were rival movie companies making a Howard Hughes film, I think Nolan was Castle Rock and Scorsese was Paramount/WB.
The company Nolan was with had been trying to make it for nearly a decade. The Scorsese one was orginally Michael Mann but he dropped out but was still producer and Scorsese became director.

rbevanx wrote:No they were rival movie companies making a Howard Hughes film, I think Nolan was Castle Rock and Scorsese was Paramount/WB.
The company Nolan was with had been trying to make it for nearly a decade. The Scorsese one was orginally Michael Mann but he dropped out but was still producer and Scorsese became director.

Oh. Thanks for the info.

More info about his Howard Hughes script here

http://www.christophernolan.net/hughes.php

Apparently it did cover a wider part of his life and he still sounds hopeful about making the film.