Two Brothers, Batman, and Person of Interest

 
 


This happy looking guy is Jonathan Nolan.















He happens to be the guy who wrote the short story that the movie Memento was based on.

Coincidentally, he is also the younger brother of Christopher Nolan, the guy who directed Memento.
















As an incredibly talented brother team, Christopher and Jonathan have co-written: The Prestige, The Dark Knight, and the Dark Knight Rises.

Recently, Jonathan wrote a pilot for a television show:  Person of Interest.







Person of Interest stars Jim Caviezel, best known for his role as Jesus in Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ . . .

(A role which, as Mel Gibson warned the devoutly Catholic Caviezel at the time, would wreck his career in Hollywood.  Proving mostly accurate, Caviezel struggled to make his mark until Person of Interest, which premiered as the highest rated pilot in 15 years and averages 10 million viewers per week)

. . . and Michael Emerson, best known for his role as Ben Linus from the show Lost.

















Lost was created, in part, by J.J. Abrams, who also serves as an executive producer on Person of Interest.  Lost, a story of a group of survivors of a plane crash, dealt with many strange phenomena, including time travel and other such fringe science.

J.J. Abrams, among his many other projects, also wrote the screenplay for Forever Young, a 1992 movie starring Mel Gibson.  In Forever Young, Gibson plays a test pilot in 1939 who undergoes a cryogenic experiment and wakes up in 1992.  This was an early example of Abrams fascination with time travel and fringe science.












More recently and keeping in tune with his scifi fascinations, Abrams has served (simultaneously as his work on Person of Interest) as the executive producer of the show Fringe.  Fringe, starring Anna Torv and Pacey (Joshua Jackson),  focuses on an FBI unit that investigates cases involving, as the title suggests, fringe science phenomena.











Peter Weller guest starred in season 2, episode 18 of Fringe, titled "White Tulip."  In the episode, Weller plays Alistair Peck, a scientist obsessed with time travel who is slowly turning himself into a cyborg.













Ironically, this is not Weller's first go at playing a cyborg, as he played Officer Alex J. Murphy in Robocop.

Recently, Weller did the voice acting for Bruce Wayne / Batman in the animated adaptation of the classic Frank Miller comic "The Dark Knight Returns."

In the animated adaptation, the voice of Joker is performed by Michael Emerson.