Christopher Nolan: I don't think of it as a comic book movie...

In light of the recent news that Christopher Nolan, director of Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, will be involved in the Warner Bros.' reboot of the Superman film franchise, MTV dug up on old interview they conducted with the acclaimed director.

Highlights:

“I think of it as a film that just exists in the cinematic realm," said Nolan, "I don't think of it as a comic book movie or just a comic book movie — and that's something that in the whole process — where from the screenwriting point of view or the production point of view and with all departments and everything we would never let people off the hook with the notion 'it's a comic book movie.'"



"We just tried to make a movie that stands as a movie," he added. "The fact that it happens to be based on a long history of this comic book character I think is irrelevant — I think it's on us to make a great movie and not rely on the fact that it's a comic book movie or excuse certain things because it's a comic book movie. We didn't want to do either; we just wanted to make as great of a movie that we possibly could.”

I completely agree.  Comic book movies should be movies first and filmmakers need not enslave themselves to the source material.  But they should expect big hate if the final product is awful (Catwoman).