Variety is reporting that David Goyer, who wrote the screenplay for the new Batman Begins movie and directed Blade: Trinity, has signed a one-year, first-look writing, producing, and directing deal with Warner Bros.   One possible project mentioned by Variety is a remake of the sci-fi film Soylent Green, but the trade paper also noted that Goyer would be developing two comic book properties with DC Comics.  The new agreement replaces a one-year deal that Goyer had with New Line Cinema (also owned by Time/Warner).  Among the New Line projects Goyer has been working on is an adaptation of the Vertigo title, Y: The Last Man, which he still may end up directing.

Although the prospects for Batman Begins do look good, DC Comics still has a long way to go to match Marvel's run of twenty-first century movie successes.  By hiring Bryan Singer, director of the successful X-Men films, to helm the new Superman movie (see 'Bryan Singer Out at Fox'), and now Goyer, who has written all the films in the successful Blade trilogy, DC and the Warner brass have demonstrated an understanding that it takes writers and directors who are familiar with and respectful of the source material to make good comic book-based films.