Christopher Nolan Will Not Be Involved With ‘The Justice League’

In today’s edition of unsurprising non-twists in news, Christopher Nolan has said he will have no involvement with Warner Brother’s and DC’s Justice League film.

As I said, this is not surprising in the least. Nolan has repeatedly said that The Dark Knight Rises will be his last Batman film. Other than producing the Superman reboot Man of Steel, which I’m fairly certain was just a favor he’s doing for David Goyer and his boys at Warner, Nolan is done with the DC universe.

When asked about his involvement in The Justice League, Nolan told Yahoo! Movies the following:

“No, none at all. We’re finished with all we’re doing with Batman. This is the end of our take on this character.

“Batman will outlive us all, and our interpretation was ours. Obviously, we consider it definitive and kind of finished. The great thing about Batman is he lives on for future generations to reinterpret, and obviously, Warners will have to decide in the future what they’re going to do with him. We’ve had our say on the character. …

“I’ve got no plans to do anything more, and certainly, no involvement with any ‘Justice League’ project.”

A lot of filmmakers claim to have no interest in making sequels, but then do a 180 (I’m looking at you Michael Bay). I believe Nolan. I think he had a vision for Batman and was able to tell the story he wanted to tell and see it to it’s completion.

As for Warner rebooting Batman? It’s going to happen. Probably within the next few years.

SOURCE: Yahoo! Movies

http://twitter.com/jomac006 Josh

Not surprised by this, I have a sneaking suspicion that Nolan only did Begins so he could then do his own film (I believe The Prestige) he’s not a comic book guy like Whedon. That’s not to say that his take on Batman hasn’t been good, it has, but it wasn’t a passion project like Avengers was for Joss.
RedRiver38

Nolan is a film maker. He loves making movies. Batman’s story under his direction has set a standard for future comics’ based films. I’ve seen elements of Batman Begins and The Dark Knight already show up in other films. I just hope that when Batman returns to film, someone can deliver a story as compelling as Nolan has done. I can’t wait to see The Dark Knight Rises. Word of mouth is phenominal.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1034709619 Dan Riedel

The Prestige + Inception
http://twitter.com/jomac006 Josh

No doubt on Inception, I just meant that he did Begins specifically to do Prestige and then TDK to do Inception of course.
A_Wise_Man

He should do it, it would put Avengers to shame. But if he wants to spread his midas touch elsewhere thats fine to.
http://twitter.com/mixta110 MIXTER

Glad he aint involved in a JLA movie, its the wrong tone, and frankly i’m not a fan of that team-up.

Glad he isn’t involved in a Batman REBOOT, I would love to see a
reboot because as a fan of the character and comics, theres sooooo much
to tell and so many other iterations of the character and his world.
Arkham city being my number 1 style i’d love to see on film.

That said, I would love to see Nolan return for a 4th part of his
version, if only to see Nolanized versions of Penguin, Freeze and
RIDDLER who has soooo much potential as a great villain if done right.
David fincheresque with a bit of SE7EN and a dash of Hannible lecter
etc…
http://www.facebook.com/marcus.d.fiasco Marcus D. Ellison

I respect that about Nolan. He came into this series with one thing in mind and that was to tell a story. Once that story was finish he laid it to rest. I wish more directors thought like that
Rick Hunter

Please make Batman Beyond. My favorite rendition of the character.
Storymark

The Nolans have already said they’ll be producing the reboot. This just means he has no plans to direct, not that he’ll never have any involvement at all with the character, ever again.
Storymark

Avengers wasn’t really a “passion” project for Whedon. It’s not like it’s something he pursued. They came to him, as a work-for-hire gig. He almost didn’t take it, so he could continue doing smaller web-projects, ala Dr. Horrible. Those are passion projects.
Storymark

Id love that, too. But don’t hold your breath. They’re going to reboot with a version of the character that will fit in with their Justice League plans, you can be fairly certain.
Storymark

He is involved in the reboot. He and his wife signed on as producers a while back.
http://twitter.com/fishcado Fishcado

This just in: Mark Ruffalo will be Batman in JLA.