Well it seems that things get more and more advanced with the prospective Christopher Nolan Batman movie.

Not too long ago Variety was reporting that Nolan (Memento, Insomnia, The Following) had been teamed with David Goyer (Blade, Blade 2 and director of forthcoming sequel flick Blade 3).

Now Super Hero Hype (www.superherohype.com) ‘reporter’ “Shawn” reports that he saw Christpopher Nolan and David Borneaz (Buffy, Angel) near the Sanamluang Cafe on Hollywood Boulevard on Monday (7 April). The net is abuzz with rumours that David may be first line candidate for Bats in the flick (as yet untitled).

Elsehwere votes are coming in for the fanboy’s choice – Borneaz has long been a fave along with Christain Bale (American Psycho) and Nolan old hand Guy Pierce (Memento, LA Confidential).

Time will tell who plays the lead and what villains are chosen and the title and the plot and…..

the list goes on and on…..

stay posted Batfans.

Variety: www.variety.com

Super Hero Hype: www.superherohype.com

Timeline of developments so far:

Batman on Film reports that Chris Nolan has decided to go with the BATMAN: THE FRIGHTENING and it will be rewritten by David Goyer. Their contact says that the scirpt that they have ‘was pretty darn good’. Bur because it is clearly a sequel they have been led to believe that Nolan plans to restart the series and go with a new continuity. With Scarecrow as the villain.

March 29, 2003
Batman on Film (BOF): “Tell your readers that they should expect something completely different from what they have seen previously or what has been rumored. And don’t expect any villians from the previous four films to be in this one; i.e. The Joker. I don’t think Nolan wants to just remake Bat89. By not having The Joker, Riddler, Penguin, etc. in his film, he will avoid the enevitable comparisons to the previous four films. Word on the street is that Chris likes The Scarecrow for this one. But don’t bet the house on it. Just expect something different and very good from Nolan and Goyer. And hiring Goyer was a VERY good thing.”

March 27, 2003
Variety reports that Blade writer David S. Goyer will be writing Nolan’s Batman flick.

March 21, 2003
Dark Horizons has a report that Warner Bros. was so impressed with Boreanaz’s audition for ‘Superman’ that they are “considering him for the next “Batman” movie which “Memento” genius, Chris Nolan is doing. An official announcement should be through on that shortly.”

March 20, 2003
Batman on Film has an unconfirmed report that Chris Nolan intends to have the script completed for his BATMAN film by the end of the summer.

March 20, 2003
Superhero Hype! reprts that Warner Bros. has registered the domain names BatmanTheFrightening.com and BatmanTheFrightening.net, possibly indicating that the next Batman film will indeed carry that title.

January 28, 2003
Christopher Nolan has been hired to direct another version of Batman.