Thanks to the LA Times, Christopher Nolan has been doing the rare thing he never does: talking about his ideas in public.

Naturally, these aren't plot-spoiling detail-heavy announcements we're dealing with, but anything more substantial than a denial from Nolan is always big news. It's been a few weeks since he stepped in as mentor for the next Man of Steel movie, and he's now willing to talk about how it all came about. Apparently we can thank David Goyer:

“He basically told me, ‘I have this thought about how you would approach Superman'... I immediately got it, loved it and thought: that is a way of approaching the story I’ve never seen before that makes it incredibly exciting."

A fresh take on that same old stale superhero icon? Singer's retro-tribute was great stuff (Brandon Routh was wonderful too), but if a new perspective is possible at all, Nolan is the guy to manage it: "It’s very exciting, we have a fantastic story. And we feel we can do it right. We know the milieu, if you will, we know the genre and how to get it done right.” Hell yes, they do. They even have a taste for big name actors in supporting roles, a la Richard Donner's original.

It's still a long way off - say, 2012 - but for now, Christopher is content to carry on with getting Inception out there in cinemas. Then, it's the next Batman film, which his brother Jonathan is feverishly working away on at the moment. “He’s struggling to put it together into the epic story that you want it to be,” Nolan comments, then adding a key piece of information: "What makes the third film a great possibility for us is that we want to finish our story. And in viewing it as the finishing of a story rather than infinitely blowing up the balloon and expanding the stor

So is this the last outing for the Caped Crusader? It certainly seems so - under Nolan at least. It's a rather good sign; you can imagine an elegant and creatively satisfying conclusion from Nolan, before the franchise runs the risk of returning to the Joel Schumacher days of blockbusting Bat Nipples and Arnold Schwarzenegger. On that front, he admits one thing: “[The villain] won’t be Mr. Freeze.”

For more cryptic comments from Christopher Nolan, check out the full write-up in the LA Times. It's a rather good read.

Do you know the story of Robin Hood? Apparently some people don't, which is great for Ridley Scott, because he gets to explain the complicated concept with this new trailer: outlaw rebels against a corrupt royal. Mostly using arrows. And occasionally horses.

Although that's a tad unfair on Ridley's Robin Hood, because Brian Helgeland's script has come up with a few new touches: a dead father, whose noble cause demands to be avenged by his son; a more robust warrior for the fair Maid Marion; and Russell Crowe as our lead hero.

More reassuring than the original glimpse of Ridley's revamp of Robin, this adventure is beginning to look a lot less like Gladiator now. Sprinkle in a bit of Mark Strong as Prince John's evil enforcer and Oscar Isaac as the mean Monarch-in-waiting, and it's all shaping up quite nicely.

The only thing this is missing? More Matthew MacFayden please. Robin Hood is unleashed on Friday 14th May. Head over to Yahoo! for the new trailer, or read on for the full video.

With Michael Douglas back on board for his Wall Street sequel, Oliver Stone was all set to prove to the world that Money Never Sleeps. Now it turns out that money does sleep. For another four months. Yes, Fox have decided to hold the film's release back until September, for mostly undisclosed reasons.

Some insiders are saying that the decision comes with the prospect of a Cannes invite for the festival. Success there in May would lead to a good launch platform come autumn - although they had a pretty good launch platform in place after stars Shia LaBeouf and Carey Mulligan had done the rounds with Douglas and Josh Brolin.

All the studio have officially said is that the film is more suited to a September release, away from the summer blockbusters. Either way, it's been 23 years since Gordon Gekko's last outing. Another few months won't hurt him or his relevance. After all, the world's finances are hardly going to be sorted out by then.

Well, according to Warner Bros. he does. Yes, the studio are turning Leonardo Da Vinci - icon of culture, art and all-round genius - into an action hero. The title, from producer Adrian Askarieh?

"Leonardo Da Vinci and the Soldiers of Forever". Yes, Heat Vision have reported that this concept, dreamed up after someone sniffed a bit too much oil on canvas, has caught imaginations over at Warner Bros. Tapping into the trend of Indiana Jones-like adventures of Dan Brown's cryptologist, fantastical period romps like Sherlock Holmes, and other historical actioners like Robin Hood and Clash of the Titans, it's no wonder they're keen. Who can blame them for liking such a crackpot idea? Everyone - or, at least, anyone with a brain.

On the plus side, the news does prove that anyone can come up with a title and get it automatically made into a movie. Next up for Warner Bros? Isaac Newton and the Werewolves of Alcatraz. More suggestions below please.