Goyer, Other Nolan Working on Batman 3 Script

Batman hopes his project gets greenlighted. 

Last week I saw a post on Deadline saying that David Goyer had left his job as show runner of the TV series “Flash Forward.” I didn’t pay much attention, because I don’t watch the show and since it’s TV news, it wasn’t news to put in this spot. Au contraire! How wrong I was!

Luckily, ComingSoon was paying more attention–they point out a throwaway line in the post that is, indeed, very interesting to movie fans. Here’s what we should notice:

Of course, Goyer’s feature career is really heating up, since he co-wrote Batman Begins, and penned the story for The Dark Knight, and is now writing the third Batman installment with Chris Nolan’s brother Jonah.

So that means that a third “Batman” movie is actually in progress, and it’s now a pretty fair conclusion that Christopher Nolan will be back to direct. Considering the success of “The Dark Knight,” all of this should seem like a given, but Nolan has very pointedly not signed on yet for the third film. I don’t think any deals are done, in fact. But if Nolan’s brother is writing the screenplay, one would think he plans to be involved, right? I guess it’s too late to put this together for 2011, so maybe we can expect to see the film in 2012, provided all the pieces (including everyone’s favorite, budget) come together and the world doesn’t end, of course. Hopefully this will all become official soon so we can start casting rumors.