Zack Snyder Officially Set For "Superman"

Some extremely big and 'super' news on the comic book movie front.

After interviews, rumors and rampant speculation, director Zack Snyder has been selected to helm the new "Superman" film, which is being godfathered by director Christopher Nolan.

According to the trades Snyder, the director of "300" and "Watchmen", beat out names such as Ben Affleck, Darren Aronofsky, Matt Reeves, Tony Scott and Robert Zemeckis for the film.

This is huge news, and welcome news for any "Superman" fans out there. Snyder
honestly is the perfect choose for this. He is no stranger to comic book adaptations, and if
you were a fan of the orginal book "Watchmen" you had to pleased with the accuracy and
detail Snyder put into it. If he even puts half of that into this film (which he won't, he'll be
in 110 percent), Clark Kent is in good hands.

General Zod is being rumored to play the villain in the project which "The Dark Knight"
director Christopher Nolan will serve as producer on, while David Goyer is penning the
script. The project is moving quick as the studio has to be in production by next year or
risk losing select copyrights to the heirs of the character's creators.

Thankfully is official that Brandon Routh will NOT be returning as the Man of Steel.
Nothing against Routh, but if you're trying to reinvent a franchise, casting the same lead
actor just doesn't make sense, so good job Zack and Chris on that one.

This project quickly will be one of the hottest ones in Hollywood with tons of actors
clamoring to play the man with the red cape.

If I had a choice, screw going young, lets take a guy like Jon Hamm. Anyone
see "The Town" or "Mad Men" lately? The dude can freaking act and he has that
good old American machismo look that could translate into Superman pretty well.

Either way, the news is about Snyder, and he really is the perfect choice for this. Having
names like Snyder, Goyer and Nolan on one project is just too much to even fathom. This
is going to be a good one, I just know it.

And I'm more of a Batman guy.

Christopher Nolan Talks "Superman", "Batman"

Empire Magazine has done a rather epic interview with "Inception" director Christopher Nolan and got him to talk a little bit more about both a third "Batman" and the "Superman" reboot he's attached to "mentor."

According to Empire: Nolan still hasn't officially signed on to direct the next "Batman" and he says it's due to workload. Said Nolan: "The God's honest truth is I work on one movie at a time. I'm only capable of doing that, so my head will continue to be firmly in ['Inception'] for another few months."

While this is understandable, I pray he directs it. I mean, who else could pull it off? His brother Jonah is currently working on the script and Nolan is excited about it. He confirmed that the film would essentially be the capper of a trilogy rather than a random third entry.

Said Nolan: "There are things for me to be very excited about in addressing the characters again. It will be the finishing of a story rather than infinitely blowing up the balloon and expanding the story."

He also shot down are some villain possibilities. Thankfully, he mentioned that the Joker character would not return, which I think is a great decision. Said Nolan: "No, I just don't feel comfortable about it."

Nolan also explained his role in the new “Superman.” Nolan said David Goyer pitched him a new approach to the Man of Steel one day, and "thought it was really tremendous. It was the first time I had been able to conceive of how you would address Superman in a modern context."

Having Nolan involved will only be a positive for that franchise, and after the dud that was “Superman Returns” in 2006, hopefully Nolan and Goyer can right the ship.

Nolan’s film “Inception” is set to open July 16, 2010.