First up, the only question I REALLY give a crap about. Does he think we'll get a chance to see Superman and Batman existing in the same movie universe?
Rovan:"No. That may be in somebody's mind but right now the Batman lives in his world and the Superman lives in his world. Those stories are those stories and we haven't thought beyond each individual picture."
This is actually pretty much what we already knew, and he's not flat out nixing the notion of it ever happening. It's just not forefront in anybody's mind right now, totally opposite to the approach being taken over at Marvel.
Does he think this will definitely be the last Batman movie?
Rovan: "Well, I think that Chris Nolan has said that he wanted to make a trilogy and this is a trilogy. As far as we all know, this is it. This is the trilogy. The Dark Knight Rises is the third part of what Chris created with Batman Begins and we're not looking past that. I've said this about Chris before: I've never known Chris to do anything but focus on the movie he's making. He gets completely immersed in the movie he's doing and I know that all he's thinking about right now when it comes to Batman, the Dark Knight Rises, is making it the best movie he can. He's not thinking, "will there be another one?" And he's already said, in his mind, it's a trilogy. So I think he's just focusing on making this the best he possibly can and that's it."
What's it going to be like for Christopher Nolan working on two huge properties at once?
Rovan: "It's a huge workload, but there's a way we've been talking about how to make it work. Hopefully, there will be a little bit of time in-between the start of production on both of them. Right now Dark Knight Rises is coming out in the summer of 2012 and Superman is coming out in the winter of 2012. So hopefully -- and we're just at the beginning phases of both of them. We haven't even entered official pre-production on either one of them -- there will be a little bit of room. They're both going to be long shoots. I'm sure there's going to be some overlap, but hopefully there'll be as little overlap as possible."
Superman's suit? It's not really going to be CGI, is it? That would suck donkey balls.
Rovan: "You know, one of the things that you probably know about me and us working on this movie is that the rumors are the rumors and when we have something to say, we'll say it. Until we do, there's nothing to say."
Pfft, a non answer there at the end. Oh well. Still a very informative read and if you're at all interested in Nicolas Cage's Season of Witch(I'll be seeing it tomorrow and expect the awfulness to be plentiful), then you should check out the rest of the interview which you can find here.
