–Batman-On-Film claims that January is the start date for WB’s plans for another “Batman” installment, and there’s a strong likelihood that director Christopher Nolan will be the hero that Warner Bros. deserves, but not the one it needs right now. Nolan’s finishing up “Inception” for WB and has a free slate after that, so all signs point to him accepting the dump truck of cash to return to the series, especially considering the WB just gave him a $200 million budget for his top secret pet project, but his silence on the matter has executives skittish. We already wrote about potential replacements, and they all remain on the table.
–In an interview with Hitfix, director Chris Weitz claims “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” is the “Empire Strikes Back” of the series, which is probably what all sequel directors say. Now, if he said this was the “Octopussy” of the “Twilight” series, we’d be listening. More interesting— did you know Weitz is also a producer on the upcoming “A Single Man”?
–In an interview with an Ohio radio station, two-packs-a-day teen starlet Miley Cyrus claims she wants no part of the popular “Twilight” series, which has more than a little spillover from her own demographics. She also says something about wolves jumping out of the television screen when she sees the ads for “New Moon,” suggesting that either she’s on an awesome amount of drugs or that rich people have first dibs on the 3D television sets of the future.
-Carl Eric Rinsch is in talks to take the director’s chair for “47 Ronin,” a fact-based thriller about an 18th century samurai clan who avenge the death of their master. The script is from Chris Morgan (“Wanted”), penning a re-write to accommodate star Keanu Reeves, who’s actually half-Asian. Presumably the bottom half that we never see? Rinsch, a commercial director making his first film, was previously attached to the “Alien” prequel until his future father-in-law Ridley Scott retook the project. Happy Thanksgiving, Scott household!
–Coming Soon has debuted the French poster for “The Wolfman” and it’s even more cryptic and less wolfy than the American ones. Unless of course there is a French film with a crackerjack cast about an elderly businessman who walks with a cane and closes deals with an animal-like ferocity that we haven’t heard about.