NOLAN'S THIRD BATMAN TO SHOOT IN APRIL

The Noob News has learned that Warner Bros. Pictures is looking to shoot Christopher Nolan's third Batman movie in New Orleans starting in April. We assume that won't be the only location they'll be filming, but the studio must like the city after recently wrapping Green Lantern there. Other anticipated movies getting underway include: Men in Black III, which starts filming on October 18 in New York through May; Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, which will shoot in Romania and Turkey starting in November; the untitled Spider-Man reboot, which begins shooting in Los Angeles in December; and The Avengers, which starts shooting in February in Los Angeles. X-Men: First Class and Captain America: The First Avenger have been shooting in London as well. Charging towards the start gate, but with no set dates yet, are the new Superman movie and Wolverine 2. Stay tuned for many updates on these films over the next two years! Source: Superherohype.com and Comingsoon.net

Fox Offers Wolverine 2 to Darren Aronofsky

The choice of Zack Snyder by Warner Bros. to direct Christopher Nolan and David Goyer's Superman: Man of Steel appears to have wide-spread repercussions for Hollywood's other superheroes. The Noob News has just learned that 20th Century Fox today entered into negotiations with Darren Aronofsky to helm the sequel to last year's X-Men Origins: Wolverine, but the director is still being offered other valuable consolation prizes by Warner Bros., like Tales From the Gangster Squad, a high-priority project that this blog told you about last week.

Back in August, Fox brass had been focusing on a handful of directors for Wolverine 2, including Twilight Saga: Eclipse director David Slade and Red director Robert Schwentke. At the time, Fox had actually considered Aronofsky its top choice, as had its star, Hugh Jackman: The pair had collaborated on Aronofsky's ambitious 2006 movie, The Fountain, and are said to still have a close relationship today.

And despite the financial failure of Fountain, Fox bosses were impressed by Aronfsky's willingness to work frugally on smaller movies and still get big results: Aronofsky directed Mickey Rourke to an Oscar nomination with Fox Searchlight's The Wrestler, and is generating similar Oscar murmurs for Natalie Portman's turn as a sapphic, deranged, self-touching, wing-sprouting ballerina in Fox Searchlight's forthcoming Black Swan.

Until last weekend, though, Aronofsky was far more interested in directing WB's original take on Superman — in which Clark Kent is a journalist traveling the world trying to decide if he should, in fact, even become Superman — than doing a sequel like Wolverine 2. But on Saturday, Aronofsky was informed by WB he was out of the running for Man of Steel, and suddenly directing a sequel didn't seem so bad. Today, his reps began negotiations with Fox to put him behind the camera for Wolverine 2.

But wait!

Even as Aronofsky's Wolverine 2 talks coalesce at Fox, Warner Bros. is still offering blandishments to get back into business. We're told by knowledgeable insiders the reason Warner Bros. picked Snyder for Man of Steel is that the script by David Goyer was rushed, is still a bit of a mess, and that Warner Bros. needs someone who won't spend months or even years trying to get it just right (i.e. Aronofsky), because time is the one thing they don't have: The studio must have a new Superman movie in production by 2011 or they'll be subject to potential lawsuits by the heirs of the superhero's creators.

We're told that Snyder was not really Warner's first choice to direct Superman, but that a director needed to be hired imminently. Privately, even Snyder has confided to agency sources that the current Superman script needs work, but clearly Warner Bros. believes he can get it done faster than Aronofsky.

And so, back to Aronofsky: Last week, we told you all about Warner Bros.' efforts to light a fire under Tales From the Gangster Squad, a 1940s LAPD cops-and-robbers drama that the studio offered to Ben Affleck to direct in the afterglow of The Town. We hear that Affleck has since passed on Gangster Squad (he was also offered Superman, by the way, and he turned that down, too) and now Warner Bros. is offering Aronofsky's reps Gangster Squad as well.

No word on which project Aronofsky will settle on, though we're told that Wolverine sequel has the edge — at least for now.

Source:Vulture (NYMag.com)

Director Zack Snyder Lined Up For Superman Reboot

Zack Snyder has been chosen to direct the new Superman movie, which will see Christopher Nolan producing for Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures.
The competition for the job was rumored to be intense, with Nolan meeting with a number of high-profile directors as Tony Scott, Darren Aronofsky and Matt Reeves.
However, whether you love his visual style or not, the addition of Snyder into the fold definitely ensures the film will be filled with compelling visuals, slick on-screen style and a lot more action than in previous Bryan Singer feature.
The studio is looking to Nolan's vision to create a successful Superman franchise after he single-handedly saved Batman. He's teamed up with David Goyer for a new Superman reboot.
Snyder says he's "psyched" about having the chance to direct one of the most loved superheroes.
"In the initial meetings, he's been super-amazingly smart and also amazingly kind, filmmaker-to-filmmaker," he says of Nolan. "I have great respect for him. The process has been amazing so far, and it looks like nothing but pluses."
"They're just super-smart, super-educated about the character. It was an amazing conversation and it went from there. I've been a fan of the character for awhile. It's really a treat and delight to do this."
"Think of where Batman was when Chris took that on earlier in the decade. I think Superman is in a very similar place, in terms of being available and in terms of his relationship to where the culture was at that time. Superman is right there. He's the king of the superheroes."
As for Brandon Routh, who played the Man of Steel in 2006, he will likely be replaced as Nolan and Goyer look to start with a clean slate.
courtesy of: TVShark.com



If you dont know who Zack Snyder is here are some of his trailers:

Sucker Punch


300


Watchmen



Dawn of the Dead