BATMAN 3 on Goyer’s Post-FLASHFORWARD Horizon

David Goyer is making time for his movies.  The screenwriter and showrunner for ABC’s FLASHFORWARD has announced, according to Nikki Finke’s  Deadline Hollywood, he is stepping away from the series to spend more time on features.  This comes with five episodes still out of the can and needing to be shot, but fans of the series might be a little less apprehensive about the news when they learn what Goyer is working on next.

According to the report, Goyer is currently working on the third BATMAN film along with Christopher Nolan’s brother, Jonathan.  This is a bit of a change in pace from the previous BATMAN films, as Goyer and Christopher Nolan collaborated on the story for those, with Jonathan Nolan only stepping in on THE DARK KNIGHT’s screenwriting job.

Says Goyer in the statement on his departure from FLASHFORWARD:

As my feature projects have started ramping up again, I felt I was being pulled in too many directions.  I’m proud of the show and excited about the relaunch. It’s in great hands.

No word yet on whose hands Goyer is referring to there, nor has there been any, official word from Warner Brothers on a BATMAN 3 start date.  With Goyer and the Nolans hard at work on the story, though, that can’t be too far off.