Top 10 Filmmakers Who Can Tackle The Batman Reboot

Alex Proyas

Once again, a director not afraid to go to the dark side, Alex Proyas is responsible for one of my favorite films of all time, Dark City. God, I love that movie.

Looking for more darkness to add to the knight? What about The Crow? Not familiar with it? It’s a superhero film directed by Proyas and like Nolan’s Batman films, it’s quite dark and gritty. It’s another excellent effort from the director and like Dark City, it’s a film I truly love.

Judging by the dazzling and dark world that Proyas created in Dark City, I think he’d give us a great Gotham, one full of style, character and stunning visuals. One that is unique and convincing and maybe even a tad more fantastical than the one we saw from Nolan. Perhaps we can get more of a dystopian Gotham?

Proyas was also heavily praised for The Crow, with film critic Roger Ebert calling it the best comic book universe he had ever seen and countless other critics praising the film for its mood, style and smoothness. Then again, that was back in 1994, before Nolan gave us his universe.

Either way, like so many others on this list, Proyas is a visionary filmmaker and one who can give us a very interesting, and different Batman tale.

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http://twitter.com/MinimeJer05 Jeremy Lebens

Rian Johnson, Duncan Jones and Darren Aronofsky sound like great picks, but I’d really like to see Alex Proyas handle Batman, even though I don’t care for much of his films. His dark and broody atmospheres are Tim Burton-ish, without the constant need for heavy makeup and eye shadow.

I think pretty much any of these could tackle Batman just fine with the exception of Refn. Refn is a MASTERCLASS director, but Batman just doesn’t fit his style.
http://twitter.com/MinimeJer05 Jeremy Lebens

I’m also randomly thinking of Sam Mendes, especially after all of this Skyfall promotion.
http://twitter.com/Silrian Silrian

I think the best way to re-conceive Batman is to step away from Nolan’s realistic grittiness. I think the Arkham games are a great example of the more fantastical Batman having a near equal amount of deep quality. Though I’m a ridiculous fan of Nolan, especially his DK films, I do would say that there still hasn’t been the definitive Batman film with regards to all his classic trademarks. Especially his more common crime-fighting/detective aspects fell a little short in the grand ideologic scale of Nolan’s “Batman is a symbol “style.

This having said I think the Wachowski’s are the best thing that comes to my mind right now. They have the experience, the prowess, the visual talent, the intellect. I think they’re one of the few with the potential to truly match Nolan’s run in quality. Perhaps Paul Dini as a writer?
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I am not sure whoever wrote this article is thinking. Do you think WB is gonna put their number one ace up the sleeve in hands of someone who wants to try to make darker batman? In fact, WB will let batman as dark as it got w/ these 3 trilogy. Any darker, you are looking at batman paranormal activity. WB should hand this into already proven director. Did I mention batman is only superhero they have got who can consistently bank out big money?
Devanes

No James Cameron?
Ridley Scott is a great choice.
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You left one mate, what about Gareth Evans? Director of The Raid:Redemption. This guy can do action like I haven’t seen before! That coupled with an amazing script, would be a mind blowing perfect storm to the franchise, the next level so to speak?