But, you now [sighs] the trick with Midnight Special is even though it was made at the studio, they gave me a lot of control over the process. And I dont just mean control over final cut, but it felt like we were making one of my movies. I had my team. I had my family there. My crew. We made the movie we all wanted to make. With the DC universe, so many parts of it had been activated and so many decisions had already been made that it felt more and more and Warner Bros. agreed that it was me trying to jump on a moving train. Thats not so much what Im good at. Im more of a ground up kinda guy.
Aquaman had already been cast at this point (Jason Momoa), his costume designed and there had been at least one script in development, so its not surprising Nichols was at least weary of joining a project so far along. But, there is certainly no shortage of characters in the DC universe that are getting their own movie, would he want to return and develop one of those characters?
Not really. Because, its all a connected universe. And it should be. And I was an advocate of that. The decisions that Zack (Snyder) is going to make in Batman vs. Superman, those all connect to things that are going to happen in Justice League and all that. And I was a huge comic book nerd, so I know all these characters and they all need to be beautifully webbed together. I was just far enough on the outside that I could develop things in a vacuum all day long but it wasnt going to line up with everything they had planned.
