Posts Tagged ‘The Dark Knight’

Batman 3 Officially Set For 2012

Posted on Friday, April 30th, 2010 at 5:35 pm by George

Nearly two years after the release of The Dark Knight, Warner Bros. announced today that the third Batman film will debut in theaters and IMAX July 20, 2012. Although no details regarding the film have been released, it’s safe to assume Christian Bale, Gary Oldman, Michael Caine, and Morgan Freeman will be reprising their respective roles and that it will be the final Batman film by Nolan.

For comparison, The Dark Knight was officially announced on July 31, 2006. The title and Heath Ledger as the Joker were included with that announcement. Details for the next film are expected to release in the coming months, with a title and a villain hopefully by the end of July.

Tags: The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises, Warner Bros.
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Inception

DiCaprio Says Inception is “About Two Hours Long”

Posted on Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 at 12:28 am by George

Although Leonardo DiCaprio stayed quiet in regards to the plot of Inception, he did reveal a small bit of intriguing information in a recent interview with Movies.ie. “I can tell you it’s about two hours long, give or take,” DiCaprio smiles. “Anything more than that, and Chris has vowed to have me strung up by my tongue…”

The comment could have been made to be intentionally vague, since I would even consider a 135 minute film to be ‘about two hours, give or take’. But what can be taken from this comment is that there is most likely a rough cut of Inception completed, possibly even being screened already.

A two hour length may seem short considering the six months of production and the ensemble cast, but outside of his Batman fims Nolan has kept his running times close to two hours. Memento is 113 minutes in length, Insomnia is 118 minutes, and The Prestige is 130 minutes. And as forum member chee noted, this comically would make Nolan a man of his word. After his second bathroom break during the BD-Live screening of The Dark Knight, Nolan joked that he would make a shorter film next time.

Tags: Christopher Nolan, Inception, Leonardo DiCaprio, Running Time, The Dark Knight
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Superman The Dark Knight Rises

Christopher Nolan Helping Reboot Superman Franchise

Posted on Tuesday, February 9th, 2010 at 12:53 pm by TeddyBlass

>>Update 2.20.10<<: According to DC Entertainment President Diane Nelson, this is nothing more than a rumor. Read more over at MTV.com.

According to Nikki Finke (who we all got familiar with yesterday) and her pal Mike Flemming, Warner Bros is looking to reboot it’s Superman franchise soon, and they turned to Christopher Nolan to oversee development. Nikki’s insiders say Nolan “has been asked to play a ‘godfather’ role and ensure The Man Of Steel gets off the ground” after the last film failed nearly 4 years ago. Of course, Superman isn’t the only superhero film Chris will be working on, apparently he has an idea for Batman 3. Nikki confirms her story yesterday on Deadline.com saying David S. Goyer and Jonathan Nolan are currently working on the script.

Deadline.com‘s insider says â€œIt would definitely not be a followup to Superman Returns,”Â and Christopher Nolan isn’t likely to direct. Bryan Singer isn’t out of the picture yet, either is Superman himself, Brandon Routh. The history of the Superman film franchise is a long and complicated one. The series has had it’s ups and downs, and is quite familiar with long stages of development that are often nothing but dead ends. Warner Bros is looking to clean up and bring focus to the comic book’s film franchise, and they’re hoping Christopher Nolan can do it. Hell, he did it exceedingly well for Batman.

To understand the history of it all, head over to Deadline.com to read Nikki and Mike’s excellent article explaining it all.

Tags: Batman Begins, Christopher Nolan, Superman, The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises, Warner Bros.
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Rumors The Dark Knight Rises

David S. Goyer and Jonah Nolan Writing Batman 3?

Posted on Monday, February 8th, 2010 at 1:09 pm by TeddyBlass

Ahh yes, it’s that time again. Time for the Batman 3 rumors. And no, this isn’t the rumor to end all rumors like we were hoping for. This rumor (soon to be trumor?) comes from Nikki Finke, the respected Hollywood journalist from Deadline.com. In an article about why Goyer is leaving the TV show he helped create (FlashForward), Nikke sites Batman 3 as one of the reasons:

“Of course, Goyer’s feature career is really heating up, since he co-wrote Batman Begins, and penned the story for The Dark Knight, and is now writing the third Batman installment with Chris Nolan’s brother Jonah. ‘As my feature projects have started ramping up again, I felt I was being pulled in too many directions,’ Goyer said in a statement.”

Perhaps this is something Nikki Finke has been told in confidence, or it’s very possible she could just be speculating. Hopefully we will have more confirmation on the validly of this statement soon. And considering this story is going to be all over the internet this week, I suspect we might. Read the full article over at Deadline.com.

Tags: Batman Begins, Christopher Nolan, David S. Goyer, Jonathan Nolan, Rumors, The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises
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Inception

DiCaprio Calls Inception a “High-Octane, Surreal Film”

Posted on Friday, February 5th, 2010 at 8:28 pm by TeddyBlass

Leonardo DiCaprio, star of Inception, was recently interviewed by Inquirer about no longer being the star of “the biggest movie” of all time. After saying very nice things about his experience on Titanic, what he thought of Avatar, and what it was like starring in Shutter Island, he went on to talk about working with Christopher Nolan in Inception.

â€œI donâ€™t know what Iâ€™m allowed to say about Inceptionâ€ the actor said after chuckling. â€œI donâ€™t even know what Iâ€™m allowed to say about Shutter Island, to be quite honest.â€ Instead, he talked about the two filmmakers: â€œBoth Chris and Martin are great directors. The material and its complexity are what Iâ€™m attracted to. Iâ€™m not happy if I donâ€™t have a lot to do. Iâ€™ve been lucky to work with people who want to tell stories that hit on different cylinders simultaneously. Shutter Island is definitely that.â€

â€œChris [is] delving into dream psychoanalysis and, at the same time, making a high-octane, surreal film that came from his mind. He wrote the entire thing, and it all made sense to him. It didnâ€™t make sense to many of us when we were doing it. We had to do a lot of detective work (laughing) to figure out what the movie was about.â€

Will anyone figure out what Inception is about? Let’s hope so. Read the rest of the article at Inquirer.net. Thanks to Jake088800 for the tip

Tags: Christopher Nolan, Inception, Leonardo DiCaprio, The Dark Knight
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