More Superman and Batman Stuff

These are simply rumors right now so I'm taking all of this with a grain of salt  More Nolan?

Superman and Captain America News

A few weeks ago I talked about Christopher Nolan's involvement in the upcoming Superman reboot.  Well today Latino Review has revealed that David Goyer will be writing the script for the upcoming movie.  Given their success together on the Batman movies this shouldn't really come as a surprise.  Sadly, Goyer has also written The Unborn and Jumper, but his work with superhero movies has been superb.  What is also known at this point is that this will not be an origin story and that The Daily Planet will be struggling like many other newspapers.  BRAINIAC will be joining Lex Luthor as one of Superman's foes, which is welcome news.  BRAINIAC was one of the best storylines of Smallville a few years ago and I think that will transfer well to the big screen.  No word yet on casting or a director.

Switching over to the world of Marvel, the search for Captain America has been narrowed to a few choices: Michael Cassidy (Smallville, The O.C.), Patrick Flueger (The 4400), Scott Porter (Friday Night Lights), Mike Vogel (Cloverfield) and John Krasinski.

Given Krasinski's popularity he would seem to be an odd choice, particularly if you want someone that isn't instantly recognizable.  Plus Krasinski would be far too sarcastic for the role, and Mike Vogel belongs in a frat house.  I would love to see Michael Cassidy in the role, he has just enough charisma to make it work while having that look of an all-American.

On the whole I'm less excited about this movie given the involvement of Joe Johnston as director.

Chris Nolan on the Superman Reboot

The big new of the day is that Christopher Nolan has been attached the Superman reboot as a sort of advisor or mentor to the creative staff.  As far as I'm concerned this is great news as he took Batman in exciting new directions, and it should be interesting what input he will give to make a new Superman movie really work.  Nolan's Batman movies were very psychological and I don't Superman going in quite the same direction, but he can surely add some much needed meat to the Superman mythos.