We're still about a year and a half outside of the last Batman film in the Nolan trilogy, but even before "The Dark Knight Rises" begins shooting, speculation about Nolan's next project is all over the world wide web. This weekend, rumors began to surface that Nolan might return to his script about Howard Hughes. Sometime in the early 2000's, before "Batman Begins", Christopher Nolan had written a script based on the life of the eccentric mogul, but when the Martin Scorsese/Leonardo DiCaprio Howard Hughs bio-pic "The Aviator" made its way into movie theaters, Nolan shelved the idea. Nolan has called the script the best work he has ever done, and now that some years have passed since the Scorsese/DiCaprio collaboration, apparently Nolan wants to go back to it. From what is known, the two films will actually be quite different, for while "The Aviator" covered the early years of Hughes life and ended as he was losing his marbles, Nolan's film apparently will be almost exclusively covering Hughes later years when he was a shut-in at some Vegas hotel, paranoid that the FBI was after him. Back when Nolan was originally planning to shoot the film, he was planning to have Jim Carrey star in the role, but there is no word if that is still the case. Whoever he gets to star as Hughes, I glad he has decided to go back to the project. By the time the film is released, it will likely have been over a decade since "The Aviator", and if the two films really do cover different periods of the man's life, it wouldn't matter anyway. Nolan has proven himself to be a great shaman when it comes to dealing with aspects of the mind, and his perspective on the insanity of Howard Hughes is almost certain to be another classic in his already great filmography.
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