1. Marc Webb
Fills out a good application for the role after having previous experience working with Joseph Gordon-Levitt on (500) Days of Summer, a film which catapulted them both in to the public conscious.
An important part in helping continue the Batman legacy is have the potential lead, assuming it’s going to be Joseph Gordon Levitt, have trust and a good working relationship with the director to tailor the movie around these needs.
He’s also just finished work on The Amazing Spider-Man and did the very un-Marvel thing of making a movie that doesn’t feel like a colourful kids show. His reboot of The Amazing Spider-Man was visually stylish, kinetic and emotionally charged and shows good credentials for the future; he could further the emotional strength of the Batman films whilst his different style of more motion and energy than Nolan would be a good distinguishing factor between the old Batman and the new one.
Although everyone would like Nolan to continue; it’s now a different story with a different character and a new style is needed to add diversity.
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Marc Webb, really? That is a terrible choice, TASM was an average movie at best.
After watching the animated Year One, all I know is that if they want another Gordon, they could a hell of a lot worse than Bryan Cranston.
Nicholas Winding Refn would be a good choice. He has already made a movie with a superhero in it. A small, little film called “Drive.”
I wouldnt mind someone restarting the franchise making batman more organic. Like a cross species blood sucking bat-man, transforming at will, where batman was the blood sucking monstor freak and the antagonist was just well…a sociopath.
Bruce Wayne’s alter ego would then be more Hulk like but deeper and darker due to the choice of transforming, though with the interplay of wrestling with the bat-human tendencies. Thirst for blood, animalistic tendencies…potential rabies etc
Just saying
I love Tarantino, but nah.
Was expecting Duncan Jones & Aranofsky to be listed.
I thought about Aronofsky; but then realised he is the most miserable arse hole in the whole world of movies. If he did the Dark Knight Rises Bruce Wayne would have died graphically and horribly; Gotham would have been destroyed graphically and horribly and we would have been left with the simple message that hope and belief is stupid.
Don’t have time for that.
I love Alfonso Cuaron but you left out the biggest ‘pro’ for him; he directed ‘Children of Men’ (which also stars Michael Caine) one of the most intense, powerful, and beautiful films I have ever seen.
That said, for me Nolan’s Batman will always be the quintessential Batman now, even beyond the various comic versions.
I haven’t seen Children Of Men so felt it would be unfair to make a comment about it; considering I know sod all about it.
I’d like to see a Joker origin story directed by Darren Aronofsky. Imagine a Black Swan style decent into madness.
Hmm, I dunno, I could see it but the very nature of the joker is that he doesn’t have a back story and is an agent of chaos and all that stuff, I don’t think there would be much
Easy now. The movie just came out. This is why studios are so reboot happy, they think people actually want it. Let’s wait like…7-10 years at LEAST?
You need to do your research before discounting Aronosky, if you read The Greatest Movies Never Made Aronofsky came up with a great spec script with Frank Miller to adapt Batman Year One which would have been lower budget but a much grittier version than Batman Begins. While I would say that ground has now been covered by Nolan, I would argue that Aronofsky would be an ideal candidate particularly as he had Miller’s blessing
I know that I’m going to take a hit for this…. but if they did a complete series reboot, I think that Peter Jackson could have a really interesting take on Batman.