It may come as little surprise that MAN OF STEEL scribe David S. Goyer has landed a three year deal with entertainment giants Warner Bros. The writer has worked freelance on the studios superhero projects for the last eight years without contractual obligation and the recent deal includes the upcoming MAN OF STEEL follow-up BATMAN VS SUPERMAN as well as the eagerly awaited JUSTICE LEAGUE film.
There’s also been talk of the writer throwing out his pen and plonking himself in the directors chair. Goyer may be at the helm of a currently untitled Hitchockian sci-fi thriller that has being penned by Doug Jung and this will supposedly be the first feature scheduled in the Warner Bros deal. Goyer had this to say:
“I was perfectly happy not having a deal, and just financed the overhead myself. Warner Bros graciously offered me a deal and they’ve provided the lion’s share of my employment over the last decade, so what the hell?”
What the hell indeed! Goyer’s a man with his fingers in many pots and some of those are television shows such as DA VINCI”S DEMONS and FLASH FORWARD. He hopes to engage the forgotten community of television writers and incorporate them into some of Warner’s new features:
“Aside from me helping the studio break story on some of their properties and them supporting me as a director, we want to find other projects in an area I could call elevated genre, and this first project falls neatly into the category. I’ve found TV to be a more collaborative medium for writers than film, and there is a ton of terrific writers working in network TV and basic cable right now. Part of the intent of this deal is to tap that stable of writers and bring them into the feature world as well.”
Goyer was also asked what he thought of Ben Affleck being cast as Batman in Zack Snyder’s sequel, his answer was delivered with commendable restraint:
“He’ll do the role proud.”
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Source: Deadline
