Christopher Nolan has backed the casting of Henry Cavill in Superman.
The Batman filmmaker will serve as producer on the re-boot of the popular franchise with Zack Snyder in the director’s chair.
And while Nolan will be involved in the project he was quick to point out that it will be Snyder’s movie.
Speaking to HitFix the director said: "What I'm doing on that is that I hired a great director to take it on and it's more his problem than mine hopefully.
"I'm going to be very busy, but I'm super excited to watch Zack's movie when its done and I think Henry [Cavill] is going to be amazing."
Nolan may have been overlooked for a Best Director Oscar nomination last week but his last movie Inception was up for Best Picture - and Nolan’s work on the screenplay has been recognised.
The next big project for the director is a third Batman movie - set to be called The Dark Knight Rises - which sees Christian Bale return to the role of Bruce Wayne.
Talking about the movie he said: "I think really it was about finishing the story. For me it's about…knowing where I want to go with the thing and I think with Batman the story we're going to tell is Bruce Wayne's story.
“So, that's what gets me excited about getting back into something,"
"The sequel thing is rather interesting because there is a lot of comfort in the familiarity of it, but there is also a challenge of reinventing it for yourself as well as the audience.
“You just can't do the same things again. But once you start thinking about Bruce Wayne's story you want to see where that goes."
Filming on Batman is due to get underway later this year.
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