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THE DARK KNIGHT opened today in theaters to perhaps what may be the biggest box-office take of the year, actually, yeah, let's just assume it is - no point in being speculative.
{sidebar id=1}The IESB spoke with one of the writer on THE DARK KNIGHT, David Goyer, recently in an exclusive interview.
Goyer has been involved in so many superhero movies you could play your own version of "Six Degrees" using him and any superhero you can think of, hmmm...
Goyer talked about writing this film with director and writer Christopher Nolan and his brother Jonathon Nolan, the nod to Brother Eye in the film and other upcoming projects he has in the pipeline including Supermax, Magneto, The Invisible Man and more! And would he be willing to take a shot at WB's Justice League film currently in ruins?
Read the interview in its entirety below,
IESB:
Congratulations, I would have never thought it was possible to see a
better movie than Batman Begins and we definitely have, what an
insane movie.
David
Goyer: Yeah, I know, Chris and I when we started on it we were trying
to make a better movie. I think it's a better movie.
IESB:
Are you surprised, I mean, I see it and I put it in the caliber of
Godfather II, Empire Strikes Back, would you agree?
DG:
Completely, when I saw it, I said to my wife, What do you think?
And she said, You know, it's a better movie than Batman Begins.
Not because, I mean, I was incredibly happen with Batman Begins but I
said we just don't have to do the origin story anymore obviously, but
actually the thing that's most impressive to me about is you walk
away from it, you don't think that it's a comic book movie. It just
feels so real and it's so effecting so...I was moved by it.
IESB:
Yes, I think we all were. We were really shocked. This is kind of a
follow up because we also talked at the roundtable interview but
there were elements in this movie that, and I have to ask because me
as a geek and you are a self-professed geek, did we see the
beginnings of Brother Eye with that sonar technology there?
DG:
A tiny bit, I mean, we were obviously aware of that and we were also
aware of that story arc in JLA, where Batman was spying on the other
JLA members, it was like a tiny nod, maybe.
IESB:
I was seeing it and to me it felt that way, and it also brought up
the question of what's going on with the whole George Miller Justice
League, which had Brother Eye and it had Talia al Ghul and had all
these things, were you ever really concerned about that? That they
were treading really closely to the stuff you guys were doing?
DG:
You know, honestly, when that happened, Chris was shooting THE DARK
KNIGHT and we just kind of ignored it and kept on pushing forward. We
knew our movie was obviously going to come out well in advance.
IESB:
When you look at the Joker in this and Heath's performance which was
just incredible and I think because his performance was so great that
other great performances I don't think are being mentioned as much,
Aaron Eckhart as Harvey Two-Face, his performance was incredible, how
much of this was put together story wise when you are Chris first
looked at it, how much was fleshed out already compared to what
Jonathon ended up doing? Was it you and Chris and then Jonathon?
DG:
Me and Chris did the story, I don't even remember how long it was, we
wrote a 25 page treatment or something like that and then we handed
that to Jonathon. I went off to do a movie and Jonathon did the first
draft, then he handed it over to Chris who brought it home. Which is
hard to say, there were moments where I don't even remember who added
what but a lot of the basic, most of the architecture was there, but
Jonathon did a great job as well. I don't know what specific parts
about Harvey Two-Face you are referring to, but it's certainly,
because Chris was involved, it certainly the story that we came up
with I guess.
IESB:
For years, everyone said like Oh my god, the X-Men films and what
they have done for to the comic book movie world is incredible and
they've done so much but now with the Batman films, everyone is
pretty much saying the same thing but a completely different level.
We're talking about Oscar worthy performances from a lot of the
actors in this film. Academy-wise, do you even think about it at all
now or is it if it happens it happens, have you given up?
[Laughter]
DG:
No, no, no, you just can't go into it thinking,What happens if we
win something or if the movie wins something? You can't approach
it that way, I am proud that people talked about Batman Begins and
this movie in that way because we set out, and it all comes from
Chris as well, but to depict these movies in a realistic, visceral
way. And, people come up to me all the time and say, You know, I
don't like these kinds of movies but I like Batman Begins. And
some people have said that about Dark Knight and frankly, in a sense
these are the clients we are making the film for. I love it when
people who aren't genre fans or comic book fans say they really
enjoyed the movie.
IESB:
Going back to the Justice League this, we've heard rumblings that
Warner Bros may go back to Chris Nolan and try to get his blessing
for Bale to be in a Justice League film, or they may even offer it to
Nolan himself...have you heard that and would you be interested in
being a part of it?
DG:
I have no idea if they made an approach to Chris about that, honestly
Chris and I haven't talked about a Justice League movie, a part of me
would like to be involved in these Batman movies and just leave it
alone, part of me because I am a big geek would say hey, you
know, that might be fun to take a swing at Justice League as well,
but, who knows.
IESB:
Could you give us a quick update on Supermax and your other current
projects? Is Supermax going to happen anytime soon?
DG:
I hope it will, the fact of Iron Man doing so well this summer and
hopefully The Dark Knight, I think that, the fact that Iron Man did
so well definitely bodes well for Supermax, because Iron Man was more
of a second tier character and I think the people at Warner Bros took
note of that fact that, oh, we could use Green Arrow, we could use
Green Lantern and maybe have new franchises, so I'm hoping that
that will give us the push we need to move forward, they liked the
script over there so I am hopeful.
IESB:
Mike Mignola said you were attached to work on one of his projects,
is that moving forward soon?
DG:
It might, and Christopher Goldman wrote the novel for Baltimore just
last week turned in, they were doing the first draft of the script,
and I mean literally next week, going in to meet with heads of the
studios about it and get their reaction but so far so good. It's
very, very, very early in the development process.
IESB:
You're not just a writer, you're a director, do you know what's going
next for you right now?
DG:
I think, in terms of what's next, I am also attached to Magneto,
that's a possibility over at Fox. I am also writing a new version of
The Invisible Man for Universal and if, well, that could be next but
it's hard to know.
IESB:
On the Magneto side, does a lot depend on how Wolverine ends up
looking? Do you think they will movie forward before Wolverine opens
next year?
DG:
I don't know, I know initially there was some talk about Magneto
going forward and then ultimately they decided to do Wolverine first
and because of the strike and what not they decided to wait until
Wolverine finished filming which just finished, and right now I am
still in post on the movie I just did for Universal The Unborn
so I am not really sure until November, so I imagine some time in the
next month or two I'll be talking to Fox about it, but I don't know,
The Invisible Man or Magneto are probably the front runners.
IESB:
Thanks David, I appreciate your time...
DG:
No problem.
THE DARK KNIGHT is currently in theaters.
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