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Christopher Nolan is talking. He’s talking about Superman, Batman and everything in between. But even though the words are coming out, he’s still not really saying anything substantial — not giving fans anything more than confirmation that their salivation over his continued involvement with either property was not for nothing. In a lengthy feature over at the LA Times’ Hero Complex, Geoff Boucher talks with the mastermind, who is currently at work finishing up his latest — and most complex — film, Inception.

“It’s very exciting; we have a fantastic story,” said The Dark Knight director when asked about Superman. “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.” He went on to confirm that David S. Goyer is working on a script, and that it was an off-hand comment from Goyer that got the ball rolling in the first place. As it turns out, the situation seems amenable to Warner Bros. as well. After all, Nolan did just make them over a billion dollars domestically with two Batman movies.

And of course, there is Batman, which is gaining steam as Nolan’s work on Inception comes to a close. “Without getting into specifics, the key thing that makes the third film a great possibility for us is that we want to finish our story,” he said. “And in viewing it as the finishing of a story rather than infinitely blowing up the balloon and expanding the story.”

He admits that his brother, Jonah Nolan, is already at work on a story — and like Chris, is looking fondly toward the opportunity to end this cycle in the life of the caped crusader: “My brother has come up with some pretty exciting stuff. Unlike the comics, these things don’t go on forever in film and viewing it as a story with an end is useful. Viewing it as an ending, that sets you very much on the right track about the appropriate conclusion and the essence of what tale we’re telling. And it harkens back to that priority of trying to find the reality in these fantastic stories. That’s what we do.”

And there, in one Hero Complex interview, Christopher Nolan has said nothing and everything at the same time. He’s confirmed what the blogosphere has spent hundred of articles postulating, and has also succeeded in not showing us his hand. It’s this well-attuned poker face that makes Nolan such a special kind of storyteller, one that exists in the mainstream, but maintains a cloak of secrecy over all of his projects. It is perhaps what has made him the most interesting and lovingly obsessed-over filmmaker of the internet generation. We can’t get enough of Christopher Nolan, mostly because we can never get enough out of Christopher Nolan. Then again, perhaps deep down, we wouldn’t have it any other way.