Director Christoper Nolan

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Geek Round Up is a new Filmdogs column celebrating the best geeky filmic news. Basically anything that incites us geeks to push our glasses up the bridge of our nose, and lean closer to our computer screens with excitement. So, let’s do just that.

The L.A. Times just landed a huge interview with everybody’s favorite Superdirector Christoper Nolan. In the article he clears up some of the issues surrounding both Batman 3 and Man of Steel. On Superman:

It’s very exciting; we have a fantastic story, and we feel we can do it right. We know the milieu, if you will, we know the genre and how to get it done right.

Nolan’s wife and producing partner Emma Thomas responded to the rumors of a gritty version of Supes, as well as whether or not we’d be seeing Lex Luthor or Braniac in the film.

I don’t know where this stuff comes from. Although, as with any good poker player, it’s hard to say where the bluff starts and ends.

Nolan and his wife/producer Emma Thomas

Nolan also talked about how each hero will exist in his own universe.

A lot of people have approached Superman in a lot of different ways. I only know the way that has worked for us that’s what I know how to do. Each serves to the internal logic of the story. They have nothing to do with each other.

I guess this means no Justice League movie is coming out soon, but I guess I can’t complain. At least Nolan is involved in these projects.

Maybe this was never such a good idea...

On Superman writer’s David Goyer’s story idea Nolan said the following.

He basically told me, ‘I have this thought about how you would approach Superman.’ I immediately got it, loved it and thought: That is a way of approaching the story I’ve never seen before that makes it incredibly exciting. I wanted to get Emma and I involved in shepherding the project right away and getting it to the studio and getting it going in an exciting way.

Consider me stoked. What about Batman 3 though? Here’s what Nolan had to say about his brother, The Dark Knight screenwriter Jonathan Nolan, who’s currently penning the script.

My brother is writing a script for me and we’ll wait to see how it turns out…. He’s struggling to put it together into the epic story that you want it to be.

"Batman 3" writer and possible "Superman" director Jonathan Nolan.

This good to hear, Nolan is a great writer and really knows how to give the characters of Gotham City the pathos they deserve. He also inferred that the third film will be the last for him. Nice of him to soften this blow to fans early.

Without getting into specifics, the key thing that makes the third film a great possibility for us is that we want to finish our story, and in viewing it as the finishing of a story rather than infinitely blowing up the balloon and expanding the story.

As for the prospective villains in the film Nolan at least put Mr. Freeze on ice.

It won’t be, Mr. Freeze.

None of this in "Batman 3"

And to sum things up…

I’m very excited about the end of the film, the conclusion, and what we’ve done with the characters. My brother has come up with some pretty exciting stuff. Unlike the comics, these things don’t go on forever in film and viewing it as a story with an end is useful. Viewing it as an ending, that sets you very much on the right track about the appropriate conclusion and the essence of what tale we’re telling. And it harkens back to that priority of trying to find the reality in these fantastic stories. That’s what we do.

Indeed, Mr. Nolan. Indeed.

Check out the rest of the great L.A. Times piece here.