It's a team of us. The team is obviously Debbie [Snyder], Zack, myself, Jeff Johns and the Warner Bros creative guys, Greg Silverman, John Burke. The interesting and fun challenge is because even when we're making films that might have sequel possibilities we're never really in the past, people who worked on The Dark Knight never thought about what exactly is the next movie going to be. In fact when we went from Batman Begins to The Dark Knight, we ended Batman Begins with The Joker so we thought 'we should probably do The Joker', we never really had a story of anything.
Here we're constantly thinking about the future, no only how to make each individual film stand on its own, be compelling, be fun, be thought provoking, have great characters, we're also thinking way down the road about how these things are going to connect and make sense, and also leave room for other great filmmakers to be involved and make sure that while we want to get to a certain place, we don't stay too rigid and too fixed on exactly the methodology of how we get there, we have to leave room for the creative process to allow it to evolve.
How hands on can you be?
Wherever you are in the world because we're making several of these in different phases, thank God for the technology because you have to stay connected. If Debbie's in LA and I'm in London or Zack's commuting back and forth or we're making a film in Toronto, you have to stay in touch with every form of medium you can, and every day is long because somewhere on some continent, there's a portion of one of the movies you're working on.
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