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Miller's "The Dark Knight Returns": The Movie?"

Zack Snyder dreams of directing the classic story...

 

     
With the success of the Watchmen movie, director Zack Snyder's star seems to be on the rise and he seems to want to dabble deeper in comic book material. With no information regarding whether we will be seeing another Christopher Nolan " Batman" film, we have to take what we can get, it seems! According to an interview with MTV, the Watchmen director cited that he would love the opportunity to some day bring Frank Miller's " The Dark Knight Returns" to the big screen. However, the likelihood of our seeing a Snyder directed "Batman" movie seems slim at this point, considering Christopher Nolan continues to hold the reigns to the franchise and it would be difficult to see someone play the role of " Bruce Wayne" other than Christian Bale. Yet, Snyder would still love to direct the film. The solution? It seems he will have to wait.

“Frank’s ‘Dark Knight’ is a 50-year-old Batman,” explained Snyder, who we caught up with at Comic-Con while he was promoting his dazzling new “Watchmen” Director’s Cut on Blu-Ray. “The reality is that Batman, as a franchise at Warner Brothers, is doing pretty good; people have heard of it....“So for me, I’ll probably be in my twilight years directing one movie every now and then — made-for-TV movies and stuff like that,” laughed the 43-year-old filmmaker, imagining a time about two decades from now. “And I then will have a chance, maybe....It will be only 20 years from now, and it’ll be Christian Bale in his 50s,” Snyder said of his dream scenario. “And by then, Chris will be over it and I’ll roll up and be like, ‘Let’s make a ‘Dark Knight’ movie!’”



What do you think about Zack Snyder's dream? Would you ever want to see a "Dark Knight Returns" film?