6 Tantalising Movies Christopher Nolan Could Make Next
5. Citizen Hughes
It has been described as a masterpiece that never was.
Christopher Nolan once declared that the screenplay for his mooted biopic about eccentric billionaire tycoon Howard Hughes was the best script he'd ever written.
Jim Carrey signed up as the lead in 2002 after Castle Rock picked up the project and Nolan was enthusiastic, dubbing it the part Carrey was "born to play".
Wow. Sounds great. So what went wrong? Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio are what went wrong.
The pair got their similarly-themed The Aviator off the ground in 2004, and Castle Rock decided two films about Hughes was overkill, leading to Nolan pitching a Batman idea to Warner Bros instead. Obviously the rest is history.
But could Nolan's Carrey-fronted Hughes biopic ever take flight again? There have been no reports of it happening, but given the director's enthusiasm for the project and the fact more than a decade has elapsed since The Aviator hit cinemas, maybe he'll consider dusting off that old screenplay.