Chapter 76

"You get quite a lot of calls, don't you—worthy of being the hottest male star right now."

"Aiya, Christopher, stop teasing me."

London, Kensington district.

In a high-end apartment, Xu Can was sitting on the sofa drinking afternoon tea.

He wasn't used to English black tea—Chinese tea tasted much better.

Sitting across from him were two middle-aged men with subtly similar features,

Jonathan Nolan, and Christopher Nolan!

The director of Interstellar, Inception, The Dark Knight, Tenet, and Oppenheimer!

Xu Can had come over at Warner Bros.' invitation to discuss the Batman reboot film.

"We've initially written a script for a trilogy—the first is Batman's origin, the second is the showdown between Batman and the Joker, and the third draws on the comic The Dark Knight Rises…"

The elder brother Jonathan Nolan was rather quiet; it was mostly Christopher Nolan doing the talking.

"Warner Bros.' idea is to invite you to play Bruce Wayne. Xu, what do you think of these three works?"

The industry has spread the word far and wide that Spider-Man's success owes much to Xu Can's attention.

Nolan valued Xu Can's opinion highly.

Looking at the script before him, Xu Can elegantly lifted his black tea and took a quiet sip.

"I do have a bold idea, though it may go against your original intentions."

"That's fine, feel free to share—the script can be revised at any time." Nolan's attitude was very sincere.

"As you know, I founded my own company and invest in making films myself. So my main focus is still on my own works."

Xu Can smiled with easy grace:

"I probably won't have the chance to appear in all three films of this trilogy, so I only want to act in one of them, and participate in the other two as a producer."

"Oh? What do you mean?" Nolan had a vague feeling that Xu Can seemed to be planning to take an unconventional route.

Sure enough, Xu Can's answer confirmed his thought!

"Batman actually doesn't pose much of a challenge to acting, since most of the time you're wearing a mask."

"What I'm more interested in is the villain role in The Dark Knight… the Joker!"