According to Latino Review, David Goyer, the co-scribe of The Dark Knight and Dark City, has been hired to write the next live-action installment of the Superman franchise.

You can read the full report here, but here are the highlights:

Thomas Tull, the head of Legendary, got tired of all the discussion and decided chingate, let’s do it.  So he went to Goyer and Goyer had an idea that actually takes the movies back to the John Byrne incarnation.  Modern.  Believable.  FUN!  So Tull got Goyer hired.

The film will not be called Superman and will be called THE MAN OF STEEL.

Other bits of news include the fact that Brandon Routh and Bryan Singer are not expected to return.

Perhaps to me the most interesting bit of news in the original report is that Mark Millar was never in consideration to write Superman because apparently Paul Levitz hated him.

This could be the Superman movie we’ve all been waiting for, the villain is reported to be Brainiac and it’s not an origin story.

So, take that for what it’s worth.  It makes a lot of sense that Christopher Nolan would go back to David Goyer after he turned in good work for his last two super-hero properties, but Goyer isn’t exactly the name I would think of for something as light and Boy Scout-y as Superman needs to be.  But Christopher Nolan seems to know what he’s doing in the DCU, so we’ll all wait and see.