Christopher Nolan wants to Make a Howard Hughes Biopic after Batman 3

I honestly didn't think we'd ever see another Howard Hughes biopic after Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio made The Avaitor in 2004. But, director Christopher Nolan is apparently very interested in developing a new biopic based on the the man and his life. There was a time when the director was actually planning on developing the film, but he threw the project aside when he saw that Scorsese was going to beat him to the big screen with The Aviator. 

Nolan's movie will take on a much darker side of Hughes than Sorsese's film did though. His film will be based on Michael Drosnin’s book Citizen Hughes: The Power, the Money and the Madness, and that the story would focus on "the freakier decades of Hughes remarkably secretive and OCD-addled life." The information found in this book comes from over three thousand pages of Hughes’s own handwritten memoranda, which leaked after the billionaire's office was burglarized in 1975.

According to Vulture, "Nolan’s Hughes movie will cover many later events and quirks on which Scorsese’s movie punted: We'll meet the Howard Hughes who spent much of 1948 sitting naked in a bungalow at the Beverly Hills Hotel with only a pink dinner napkin covering his genitals as he screened movies from his studio, RKO Pictures, and ran up an $11 million tab; the Hughes who — obsessed with food safety — once bought every franchise restaurant chain in his home state of Texas, and who was similarly so concerned about air quality that he installed an aircraft filtration system in his 1954 Chrysler New Yorker, taking up its entire trunk; the Howard Hughes who had his hair cut and nails trimmed only once a year, and who was seemingly as addicted to Baskin Robbins Banana Ripple ice cream as he was to regular codeine injections; the Hughes who at the end of his life considered only Mormons trustworthy enough to be let into his inner circle."

I loved Scorsese's film, but this new biopic sounds like it's going to make a great and interestingly intense movie. How can you not be excited to see what Nolan has envisioned for this movie? The guy knocks everything he touches out of the park. According to the report, Nolan wants to shoot the film in late 2012 after he's finished with The Dark Knight Rises, and then release it on 2014. So by the time the movie comes out it will have been 10 years since Scorsese's film, and "Nolan seems to think sufficient enough for it not to invite immediate comparison."

Now, wouldn't it be cool if DiCaprio reprised his role as Howard Hughes in the Nolan's new biopic? That would be interesting, but I doubt it will happen even though DiCaprio gave a pretty incredible performance. 

What do you all think about Nolan making another Howard Hughes biopic?