IESB claims that Christopher Nolan, Jonathan Nolan and David Goyer are already working on the screenplay for a third Batman film, but when they talked to producer Charles Roven, they were unable to get a confirmation. I have a feeling that the process is in the earliest of stages (ideas, possible treatment), and that the trio are not huddled around a table in a room with one of them hard at work typing behind a computer screen.

Puss in Boots and The Flash news after the jump.

THR reports that Tom Wheeler has been hired to pen the Shrek spin-off Puss in Boots for DreamWorks Animation. Wheeler previously co-wrote the television mini-series Empire. Shrek The Third /co-writer/co-director Chris Miller penned an earlier draft.

The screenwriter behind the in-development Jonny Quest, Dan Mazeau, has been hired to write a draft on DC’s Flash for Warner Bros, according to IESB sources. Again, producer Charles Roven was unable to confirm. It sounds like the project is still a long ways from a greenlight.

  • seanovan
    Of course they are working on Batman 3.
    I'd rather they keep it hush hush then every possible idea option being analyzed by the whole internet.
  • Puss in boots(N)
  • i don't know why but that is one of my favorite fictional character names.
  • I really DON'T want them making a Batman 3. Not because TDK sucked - it's the contrary, actually. I just have no idea how they will top it. There WILL be a backlash.

    Seeing as how Batman really did mostly everything right, I thought they'd acknowledge that three is not a perfect number.
  • richard
    not that plot! that was horrible.
  • I can't wait for The Flash!
  • The Flash seems like it would be a cool idea. And Chris Nolan has never done anything wrong in my eyes, so if he thinks Bats warrants another sequel, I trust him. I won't bother with Puss in Boots though.
  • How could it not? What sort of director (I adore Nolan) would leave a story unfinished. The Dark Knight is a chapter in a story.
  • Yay Flash ^_^
  • grabbie
    I thought David Goyer already wrote an awesome script for The Flash a few years ago. They should just use his screenplay.
  • If green lit, I'd put good money they cast Ryan Reynolds as Flash. Bit like that whole Ben Affleck Daredevil thing.
  • oh how sad for ryan reynolds.... to be forever mocked as the guy who ruined flash.... Man I used to think DD was badass... then i watched it again recently.... WOW!!!
  • Ouch, that would be bad.
  • I'm not sure if they would cast him after playing Deadpool and likely getting the Deadpool spinoff that's been talked about recently. I think they missed the boat on him. He's always said he wanted to either be Flash or to play Deadpool, but I'm not sure he'd do both, or even if they'd try to cast him after playing Deadpool.
  • Finnaly some batman 3 speculations! Well its good to hear "they might" be working on it
  • id rather not hear anything about Batman 3 ... which will probably be called Dark Knigh Returns .. until things are more clear.
    its FAR too easy to guess at things, like the title, villains etc
  • id rather not hear anything about Batman 3 ... which will probably be called Dark Knight Returns .. until things are more clear.
    its FAR too easy to guess at things, like the title, villains etc
  • Im ready for The Flash. I was hyped when i saw that fake trailer on you tube.
  • That trailer was kind of lame (you could tell it was fake) but at the same time it got me psyched too. Love the Flash. Bring it on.
  • Dr. Doc
    a Flash movie would be great! its gotta be similar in tone w/ something like the Spider-Man movies though, a family friendly affair

    but i gotta say, why the hell would they give it to this Dan Mazeau mook? he wrote Johnny Quest (which could be a GREAT franchise in its own right) which hasnt even been made yet!

    HIRE GEOFF JOHNS TO WRITE A SCRIPT FOR THE FLASH!!!!!!!!

    no one in the entire galaxy knows the character better!

    i think Aaron Eckhart would make a great Barry Allen/Flash

    HIRE GEOFF JOHNS TO WRITE A SCRIPT FOR THE FLASHH!!!!!!!!
  • All of these projects look really early in developlement. They will probably be there for a while.
  • yournumber1fan
    i don't want to see a flash movie. bring on GREEN LANTERN!!!!! and while we're actually talking about other DC characters instead of just batman, how about a superman/doomsday live action movie. Hollywood already has a script, its called the death of superman storyline. No more origin stories, if you don't know how superman came to be go back to the rock you live under. and intertwine the superman and green lantern movie. to where the cyborg superman destroys coast city and hal jordan kills off the other corp members to resurrect his beloved city. just follow the comic books, no reason to make a shitty movie based on somebody elses "vision" of how they think it should be.
  • Alright Flash movie. I think Warner Bros should stay away from Superman for awhile. He seems Toxic after the Returns movie. Bizzaro or Brainiac as a possible villain for the superman film or maybe Darkseid. For Flash Captain Cold or Mirror Master or Captain Boomerang or just bring out his whole Rouges Galley. Batman 3 i would go with Hush or Killer Croc. Green Lantern i can't wait for i feel that WB should have hired Geoff Johns to write the script for Green Lantern.
  • Fartie Lange
    Aaron Eckhart for Barry Allen/Flash!!!
  • Flash and Batman 3. I'm still a little against the idea of a third Batman, but what can I do? It is just that The Dark Knight is so brilliant, that I really do not know how are they going to top that. But if someone can do it, it is most certainly the Nolan brothers and Mr. Goyer. Still not entirely convinced, but I do wish them the best and I really want to be proven wrong!

    On Flash. I wonder which one are they going to do? I think Wally West is my favourite since I kind of "watched" him grow to the man he is today, but I like Barry Allen very much too. I think either one would be awesome as long as it is not Bart. Nothing against the kid, but he was not flash for a long time and it won't be fair to make a movie about him.
  • I think Barry will be the main Flash, and Wally will be a supporting character. The fact that Barry is coming back to the comics doesn't hurt either.

    I like the fact that DC is focusing on Green Lantern and Flash again in the comics.
  • I'm down for a Flash movie, hopefully not before they finish the Green Lantern though. The script that I read for that would be EPIC. I'm sure they are deviating from that as they go along, but I honestly thought that it was so good, that even if it's only a little like the script I read, it will be very good.

    On Flash though, I'm really hoping they don't go for the whole "Flash is a wise-ass, childish jokester" thing like he was in JLA. Unfortunately I think that is the Flash that most people will know and expect to see, but he really wasn't like that in the majority of his comic book appearances. Sure I'd like to see the occasional wisecrack for levity, but not to the point that he becomes a clown, again like they did in JLA. I'd like to see Mirror Master or Captain Cold as the villain, I think it would be pretty cool to see either one. If they use Captain Cold, they could go for a victim calling him Mr Freeze (Which really pisses him off) and he could go off on him. That would be funny and kinda cool.
  • I really hope Batman 3 gets started soon and I hope we get to see a Flash movie one of these days.
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