We all know that David Goyer and Christopher Nolan are bringing back Superman to his rightful place as the best superhero at the box office and with that combination, what could go wrong?
If anybody can remember, Jeff Robinov announced shortly after The Dark Knight was released and soared at the box office that Warner Bros./DC would make 4 films within the next 4 years in the same tone as The Dark Knight: Batman 3, The Man of Steel, Green Lantern and Flash.
Interviews conducted with Christopher Nolan have confirmed that the story idea for The Man of Steel came up immediately after The Dark Knight when they were mooting around ideas for Batman 3. David Goyer said "look I got this take on Superman" and Chris Nolan liked it and gave it to Warner Bros. straight away. Was this the thing that made the basis for Warner Bros. 4 movie strategy. I think so.
Now skip forward 2 year and we are here. Green Lantern has nearly finished shooting, Batman 3's script has finished and is ready for some major casting and production to begin and The Man of Steel has been announced to be released December 2012. But no director. Everybody keeps babling on like Christopher Nolan is directing the thing when in fact, he is just producing the film at the same time he will be fully focused on Batman 3. So how does that work? It doesn't with Nolan's policy of 1 film at a time so who will be directing if there is no director and the film is barely over 2 years away from release?
Well if they managed to keep secret for nearly 2 years that Christopher Nolan would be godfathering the Superman project which is being written by David Goyer and scripted by brother Jonathan Nolan, then they probobly already have the director and everything is being done behind the scenes. Well at first the rumour was Jonathan Nolan would be directing after years of being in big bro's spotlight. But my theory is directing the movie is David Goyer who is also writing the story.
Now the last film Goyer directed was in 2009 and it was The Unborn, a horror flick. The last comic book movie he directed was Blade: Trinity which wasn't up to par with the other 2 Blade's in my opinion but that was before he hooked up and witnessed the magic of Christopher Nolan's innovative directing ways and when Comic Book Movie's were at their lowest quality (Blade: Trinity, Fantastic Four need I go on). Now my theory is David Goyer is directing with Christopher Nolan giving tips and helping Goyer along the way to become a better director because Nolan really wanted to do Superman but can't because of his ties to the Batman franchise so is instead producing and helping Goyer. Here is what I can see being the line up.
Director: David S. Goyer
Producer: Christopher Nolan, Emma Thomas
Writer: David S. Goyer, Jonathan Nolan
Music: Hans Zimmer
Let me know what you think of this theory which you heard first.