Hire JacksonArcher! Having just completed a short, about a fallen hero returning to his heroic duties. Not to put you on the spot, but how would you do it, if you had to follow in Nolan's footsteps?
Haha. Wow. Well, I appreciate the vote of confidence, I guess?
Admiral James Kirk and I (it feels so weird to say that) were actually working on a
Batman fanfilm for some time that just never came to fruition, and the mutual approach we wanted was something between Nolan's vision and
TAS.
I'm a big fan of
The Animated Series, having grown up on it as a kid, so the idea is that we wanted to not steer it too Gothic like Burton, or too campy like Schumacher, or too realistic like Nolan, but find a middle ground (much like he said in his post) that would incorporate some of the naturalism of Nolan's version with the timelessness of
The Animated Series.
You know, a Gotham City that actually felt unique and not like Chicago on steroids.

Just for starters.
Honestly, though, a lot of how I approached
Fallen is how I would approach a Batman movie. I've been meaning to get a
Batman movie out of my system for years, and very much like how parts of
Inception was Nolan paying homage to his love of James Bond,
Fallen is pretty much me paying homage to my love of Batman.