After having his name in the rumor mills these past few weeks in regards to both a new Superman film and the highly anticipated third Batman film, Christopher Nolan was uncharacteristically talkative this week, opening up to the Los Angeles Times on the status of both projects.

While the full article is completely worth the time, I thought I’d give you a few of the highlights.

-How did Nolan end up heading up a new Superman project? It was all David Goyer’s fault: “He basically told me, I have this thought about how you would approach Superman,’“ Nolan recalled. “I immediately got it, loved it and thought: That is a way of approaching the story I’ve never seen before that makes it incredibly exciting. I wanted to get Emma and I involved in shepherding the project right away and getting it to the studio and getting it going in an exciting way.“

-Nolan will not be directing this new Superman film.

-Superman and Batman will be in separate film universes, which throws out my theory that these films (along with Green Lantern and Flash) would make up a DC Film Universe to counter Marvel Studios.

-The status of Batman 3? Jonathan Nolan is writing the script, and it wraps up the series: “Without getting into specifics, the key thing that makes the third film a great possibility for us is that we want to finish our story,“ he said. “And in viewing it as the finishing of a story rather than infinitely blowing up the balloon and expanding the story.“

-Whoever the villain in the third film is, it won’t be Mr. Freeze.

Click through below to read the full article, it’s a heck of a read.

Source:  Christopher Nolan takes flight with Superman: ‘We have a fantastic story’ [UPDATED] | Hero Complex | Los Angeles Times.