christopher nolan Christopher Nolan Plans To Direct A Howard Hughes Biopic After The Dark Knight Rises?

Variety have heard that Christopher Nolan’s next project after ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ will be his long-shelved Howard Hughes biopic that he’d previously abandoned after Martin Scorsese beat him to the screen with his Howard Hughes film ‘The Aviator’ in 2004. To be honest whatever project Nolan lines up next I’m in, he’s the master of balancing entertainment with substance. In fact if Christopher Nolan took a huge steaming dump in the middle of a field and charged people to see it, I’m quite sure I’d go, his track record is that good – Memento, Insomnia, Batman Begins, The Prestige, The Dark Knight, Inception.

Nolan’s Howard Hughes movie is said to be based on Michael Drosnin’s Citizen Hughes: The Power, the Money and the Madness (first published in 1985), and would focus on the freakier decades of Hughes remarkably secretive and OCD-addled life. Drosnin’s Hughes book leans extensively on some astonishing primary sourcing: Over three thousand pages of Hughes’s own handwritten memoranda, which leaked after the billionaire’s office was burglarized in 1975.

Variety’s sources tell them Nolan wants to shoot his Hughes movie late in 2012, then release it in 2014 — by which time 10 years will have elapsed since Scorsese’s Aviator, a span Nolan seems to think sufficient enough for it not to invite immediate comparison.