Jonathan Nolan On TDKR, The Possible Justice League Movie and The Avengers

While everyone is busy extolling Christopher Nolan's splendid Dark Knight Trilogy, in the background is baby brother, co-writer Jonathan Nolan, who, thankfully, is gradually receiving deserved recognition. Empire Magazine had a chat with the co-writer on all things comic book movies, including the seemingly deathless issue on the ending of The Dark Knight Rises.

Empire asked Jonathan on the audacious speculations (more like demands) of the fans on the Robin gag in the end of the movie - how possible it would be to make that character work in this version of the Batman universe, and this has to have been the only way. Here's what Jonathan had to say:

"It is a little hard to imagine Robin working in that universe," Jonathan said. "So the idea had to be limited to that gag at the end. But Joe’s character is very important to the story. In any movie you need a character looking at proceedings the way yousee them, and Joe’s character is that character for this film. One of my favourite scenes is when John tells Bruce how he knew he was Batman. It’s like that scene in The Prestige where the little kid sees through Christian’s trick. Little kids, they don’t have any illusions, they just see the truth of the situation. I feel there’s a kind of spiritual connection between the two movies there."

When asked on his thoughts on the possible Justice League movie, Jonathan said that he is incredibly excited. "I was a big Batman fan when I was a kid. In fact he was the only comic-book character I really liked. I went through a brief spell where I was reading Captain Britain, because I was an English kid living in the States, and Wolverine for 30 seconds, Spider-Man too, but really Batman was the one. And I love that there are different versions of the character. I love that in the context of The Justice League, he’s kind of the black sheep of that family."

Jonathan also told that he liked Marvel's The Avengers, quote, "I did. To me Joss Whedon is a god, I’m just a huge fan of his work, I love his work on TV. And I thought The Avengers was just an incredible achievement."

Jonathan is currently at work on a CBS crime drama he created called "Person of Interest" which does good, so far - check it out. Star Trek director J.J. Abrams has co-developed the screenplay with him.