{"id":5129,"date":"2009-08-19T00:24:55","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T05:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=5129"},"modified":"2015-05-25T21:35:35","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T01:35:35","slug":"nolan-drops-prisoner-to-do-batman-3-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/19\/nolan-drops-prisoner-to-do-batman-3-next\/","title":{"rendered":"Nolan Drops PRISONER To Do BATMAN 3 Next?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/ChristopherNolan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5132\" title=\"ChristopherNolan\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/ChristopherNolan-300x247.jpg\" alt=\"ChristopherNolan\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" \/><\/a>Christopher Nolan is not a number, he&#8217;s a free man! Free, at least, from his obligation of directing a big screen version of the cult classic 60s television series <em>The Prisoner<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian site <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20140730061531\/http:\/\/cinefools.com\/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleID=1071\" target=\"_blank\">CineFools<\/a> caught up with <strong>Prisoner<\/strong> producer Barry Mendel, who confirmed that Nolan had left the project, but that they were still working on developing a screenplay with <strong>12 Monkeys<\/strong> scripters David and Janet Peoples.<\/p>\n<p>This could be good news for those of us waiting for Nolan to return to the <strong>Batman<\/strong> franchise to deliver a follow up to last summer&#8217;s <strong>The Dark Knight<\/strong>. While the director is currently in the midst of shooting Inception, a science-fiction thriller, he has no other commitments once the film is finished, leaving him free to begin work on a new <strong>Batman<\/strong> film. Warners is anxious for him to start work on it. Fans are anxious for him to start work on it. So here&#8217;s hoping Nolan is equally anxious to dive it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Christopher Nolan is not a number, he&#8217;s a free man! Free, at least, from his obligation of directing a big screen version of the cult classic 60s television series The Prisoner. The Australian site CineFools <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/19\/nolan-drops-prisoner-to-do-batman-3-next\/\" title=\"Nolan Drops PRISONER To Do BATMAN 3 Next?\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[1942,899,31,57,22,24,279,1943],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5129","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-comicsandfilm","8":"tag-batman-3","9":"tag-christopher-nolan","10":"tag-comics-and-film","11":"tag-directors","12":"tag-in-development","13":"tag-sequel","14":"tag-the-dark-knight","15":"tag-the-prisoner"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5129"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=5129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}