Lee Smith, editor of The Dark Knight Rises, says the reclusive Bruce Wayne depicted in that film was influenced by a Howard Hughes biopic that director Christopher Nolan never got to make.
In a chat with Flickering Myth (via The Playlist), Smith confirmed the speculation, saying, "There are a lot of similarities in that. He did work on a script at the same time the one with Leonardo [DiCaprio] came out back in the day.”
Nolan was developing his biopic of Hughes, which would have starred Jim Carrey, at the same time as Martin Scorsese's The Aviator was in the works. Warren Beatty has also long tried to get a Howard Hughes film made.
It was reported last year that Nolan might revisit the Hughes project after The Dark Knight Rises. "Nolan's movie is based on Michael Drosnin's Citizen Hughes: The Power, the Money and the Madness," claimed Vulture, "and would focus on the freakier decades of Hughes remarkably secretive and OCD-addled life."
Ironically, Hughes' Spruce Goose hangar in Long Beach, California was used as a soundstage for the filming of Batman Forever.
Source : ign[dot]com
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