Playlist give Chris Nolan five directors to think over for SUPERMAN reboot
Out of The Playlist's top five candidates to direct the new Superman reboot under the consultation of Batman Begins and The Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan, who would you choose? (I know, I know - in a perfect world, besides my 1st choice Matthew Vaughn, Nolan himself would direct from a script he would birth with David Goyer and his brother Jonathan but that just ain't gonna happen because he will begin working on Batman 3 post-July, and he will be filming that next year - just when Superman will be nearing it's filming stages. He just couldn't do both)
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Alfonso Cuaron (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Children of Men) David Yates (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix) Kevin MacDonald (Last King of Scotland, State of Play) Duncan Jones (Moon) Andrew Niccol (Lord of War, Gattaca)Personally, none of them rocks my world. I mean don't get me wrong, I don't think hiring Cuaron or Niccol would be a bad thing and I've greatly enjoyed the science fiction work on both man's résumé but I was thinking more along the lines of Matthew Vaughn. You know, actually a big fan of the comics! You can imagine that Nolan will certainly sway towards a Brit getting the gig and Vaughn now has Kick-Ass on his CV which is as good a warm-up to Supes as I could imagine. Then there's the fun fantasy/adventure Stardust and the excellent Layer Cake, and I defy you to let me know who is better equipped for the job. Other guys I would talk to if I were WB/Nolan and strictly in this order, include... The Wachowski's (The Matrix trilogy), Jon Favreau (HEY - they managed to nab Bryan Singer a few years back from Marvel - don't underestimate the power pull of Superman), Edgar Wright (Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead) Neil Blomkamp (District 9), Sam Raimi (Spider-Man trilogy) and Gore Verbinski (Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy, The Ring). I would push for Vaughn. Comic book movies lost a good one when he and Mark Millar's pitch for a new epic trilogy fell down at WB last year.