Who Should Direct A Future BATMAN Film? (Still fifty characters)

As an unabashed Nolanite...I would hire a director for a Batman film in that mold. In fact Warner Brothers should forget the current trajectory of its DC universe and restart from Man of Steel using the Dark Knight trilogy as a backdrop. Since Nolan is uninterested in returning, then I would get a well respected director who I think could rival Nolan someday. That man is Swedish filmmaker Tomas Alfredson...

He is the director behind the hauntingly beautiful vampire film - Let The Right One In - so he is no stranger to fantasy yet that movie like the Dark Knight films had a realistic feel to it and his follow up film Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, a spy thriller was a critical darling which featured the former Jim Gordon (Gary Oldman). His next film is a detective film starring Michael Fassbender which will be out this October. Depending on how he does with that film, I believe he could rival the creativity of Christopher Nolan which is no small feat. Ideally my DC universe (built around the Dark Knight movies) dream team would be comprised of

CREATIVE TEAM
WALLY PFISTER - Who would be in charge of creating a shared look and feel for the entire DC film universe and making sure it is strategic and consistent.

DAVID GOYER - Who would provide input into the DC story elements to align the movies with the comics as much as possible.

DIRECTORS...

TOMAS ALFREDSON - who would direct films for BATMAN
NEILL BLOMKAMP - who would direct films for CYBORG
JULIA HART - who would direct films for WONDER WOMAN
MARJANE SATRAPI - who would direct films for CAT WOMAN
COLM MCCARTHY - who would direct films for NIGHTWING
BONG JOON-HO - Who would direct films for AQUAMAN
ALEX GARLAND - Who would direct films for GREEN LANTERN
MIKE FLANAGAN - Who would direct films for CONSTANTINE

A look at the filmography of each of these directors would reveal that each one has a strong track record yet none of them are so well known as to price themselves out of Warner Brother's budget. As a former DP for the Dark Knight films, Pfister is uniquely qualified to make sure films have the same look and feel of those early batman films. Each one of the proposed directors have made consistently well received films. In fact thus far, only Neill Blomkamp has one film that is "rotten" on the Rotten Tomatoes site.

It would be hard for DC to go wrong with this strategy.