Posts Tagged ‘Jonathan Nolan’
Greatest Casting Rumor Ever | Mad Men’s Jon Hamm as Superman?
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Mad Men is the best show on television. Maybe even the best of all time, and the character of enigmatic ad-man Donald Draper as played by actor Jon Hamm is classic. Draper is an embodiment of a certain type of American ideal, so who better to play the part of America’s first and most iconic superhero.
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Geek Round Up| The Riddler in Batman 3, Thor and Captain America Posters, and Cult Art
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A “reliable source” from website www.firstshowing.net has gotten it’s hands on a casting grid for Batman 3 indicating that The Riddler is the primary villain in the film. A casting grid is basically a chart for agents and studios to keep them abreast of what roles need to be cast in said film. The site is also claiming that the chart puts actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt in the top spot for the role. The casting could be feasible considering Levitt’s recent work with Nolan in Inception, and I’d be down with him playing the part as he’s a fantastic young actor. However, I’m still holding out hope that Nolan and his brother, Batman 3 screenwriter Jonathan Nolan, will go with a villain we haven’t seen before. This would be more in line with every statement all the creators have made regarding the 3rd film in the series. Read the rest of this entry »
The Filmdogs Podcast: Episode 16 – Podcast vs. Predators
The 16th Episode of The Filmdogs Podcast has arrived and it’s more deadly than a Predator’s self destruct device. Special guest and new Filmdogs writer/contributor Mr. Holt joins us this week as we discuss the Hulk situation, and the possibility of Jonathan Nolan directing the new Superman film in the News. Then we do a quick profile of Sam Mendes’ flick Road to Perdition in a new segment, Overlooked and Underseen. We do an in depth review of Nimród Antal’s film Predators for our Featured Topic and wrap things up with a One-Liner of the Week from Arnold in the original film. It’s an episode with so much going on it doesn’t “have time to bleed.”
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The Filmdogs Podcast: Episode 12 – Podcast Returns
The Filmdogs Podcast returns in this geektastic 12th episode. We discuss The Hobbit directing situation in the news and defend Nic Cage’s hair in a new segment, In defense of. Holy Featured Topic Batman! That’s right, in our Featured Topic of the Week we discuss would what WE would do in the sequel to Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Night. Everything from villains to Robin is dwelled upon here. In other words, we geek out. And to wrap things up we have an amazing One Liner of the Week from Al Pacino in Glengary Glen Ross. It’s an episode so good it would make even Batman himself smile.
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Geek Round Up | Some Batman/Superman talk from Nolan
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: Read the rest of this entry »
The Filmdogs Podcast: Episode 5 – The Podcast Strikes Back
The fifth installment of The Filmdogs Podcast is up with special guest host, Filmdogs writer Maxx La Bella!! This week we talk about Chris Nolan’s little brother directing Superman, and the impressive box office takes of Avatar and Shutter Island. We’re going to the mattresses in this weeks Vs. with Goodfellas vs. The Godfather, plus we discuss the biggest mistakes the Oscars have ever made in our Featured Topic of the week. If you don’t listen you’ll be sleeping with the fishes!
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Batman 3 News Update
Last week film buffs were treated to the incredible news that Christoper Nolan would soon be starting “Batman 3,” along with planing a new Superman film. This is all it took for rumors about these projects start flying around faster than a speeding…well you get the point. Read the rest of this entry »
The Greatest News of All Time!!
By now you may have heard that Director Christopher Nolan, the man behind “Batman Begins” and “The Dark Knight” is moving forward with Batman 3. Nolan recently came up with the story idea, the details of which can be expected to be kept under wraps for a long time. His brother Jonathan Nolan and David Goyer, writers of the previous films, have been charged with writing a first draft while Nolan finishes this summer’s “Inception.” A collective sigh of relief among the Batman faithful can be heard sweeping the nation.
Added to this awesomeness is the fact that Nolan will be a “Godfather” of development for a new Superman film. Does this mean we’ll see the two heroes team up at some point? Will Brandon Routh Return? Who will direct? All in know is my inner geek is very happy.
For a more in depth discussion of this amazing news tune into The Filmdogs Podcast later this week where we’ll do a whole lot of speculating. It should be alot of fun.
It’s A Bird! It’s A Plane! It’s Chris Nolan! He’ll Mentor Superman 3.0 And Prep 3rd Batman
When Nolan speaks we listen.
The official title for Batman 3 is The Dark Knight Rises, and if that’s not enough to get your gears turning Director Christopher Nolan also revealed in the interview with Geoff Boucher at Hero Complex that The Riddler WON’T be the main villain in the film. This is as we know a huge amount of information coming from the notoriously secretive director, and may be biggest news surrounding the film we receive in a while.
As for the title itself I was personally hoping for Legends of the Dark Knight, but The Dark Knight Rises implies even more that the film is the final installment in the trilogy, and that Batman/Bruce Wayne will “rise” above the grim circumstances he found himself at in the end of The Dark Knight. What situation and/or character will help him overcome this in Rises? Could it be the new female lead they have started casting? The comic basis for The Dark Knight was The Long Halloween, could it’s follow up Dark Victory featuring a young Robin character help Bruce overcome his darkness? Or could simply defeating a new villain possibly played by the recently cast Tom Hardy serve the same purpose? One things for sure, it’s a great time to be a Batman fan. Thanks again Mr. Nolan.