Christopher Nolan has reportedly begun meeting candidates to direct the new Superman reboot. And there are some surprising names on the list…
Thus far, whenever there's been talk of Warner Bros' upcoming reboot of the Superman franchise, there's only been one or two names linked with the job of directing the movie.
With Christopher Nolan overseeing the project but not directing, the main candidate to helm the film has appeared to be Jonathan Nolan (although we did learn earlier this week that Guillermo del Toro has been offered the job, and turned it down). It's Jonathan Nolan too who has co-written the script with David S Goyer.
However, Deadline is now reporting that meetings have now begun with potential directors, and it's quite an odd shortlist that appears to have been put together.
The site suggests that Christopher Nolan and producer Emma Thomas are meeting with Tony Scott, Cloverfield and Let Me In helmer Matt Reeves, Jonathan Liebesman (who has just signed up to direct Clash Of The Titans 2, which suggests he's out of the running for Superman), Zack Snyder (who will have his next film, Sucker Punch, finished for March) and Duncan Jones.
Of those, it's Jones who excites us the most. He's the man, of course, behind last year's Moon, and he's just finished work on his second movie, Source Code. Tony Scott, meanwhile, would seem like quite an odd choice to direct (although he has been linked with one or two Bond movies in the past), while Zack Snyder's approach is surely overly stylised for this kind of job. Matt Reeves, meanwhile, could be an intriguing choice, especially if the positive early word on Let Me In is to be believed.
It's quite feasible that Christopher Nolan's search will bring in other faces too, but Deadline understands that he'll be making his choice in the next few weeks, so as to get the film moving in time to meet a 2012 release deadline. We'll keep you up to date with that happens next.