Dark Knight Director's Brother Arrested for Murder

[blu-mike]

Los Angeles (E! Online) – Holy headline-making, Batbro!

Matthew Francis Nolan, the older brother of Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan, has been arrested by the FBI in his hometown of Chicago and is now awaiting extradition to Costa Rica to face murder and kidnapping charges.

According to the the bureau's Windy City office, the Violent Crimes Task Force apprehended the 40-year-old Nolan without incident as he was leaving a bankruptcy court hearing yesterday.

Nolan has been wanted in Costa Rica since 2006, when local authorities charged him with the kidnapping and murder of a Florida businessman a year earlier.

According to the FBI complaint, the elder Nolan concocted a Joker-worthy plot to lure the victim, Robert Cohen, to a hotel by pretending to be a multimillionaire jewel merchant hoping to do a business deal. Instead, Nolan intended to recoup $7 million Cohen owed another Florida man. Nolan and an accomplice, Douglas Mejia, allegedly held Cohen ransom in hopes of extracting the money, but when the family failed to meet their demands, they killed him, per the complaint.

Mejia was convicted of kidnapping and murder and is now in prison.

Nolan was collared just as police were probing his role in a separate $700,000 bank-fraud scheme. He's been ordered held without bond until extradition proceedings are completed.

Nolan's 38-year-old sibling, Christopher, broke into Hollywood with the mind-bending thriller Memento and has since gone on to reinvent the Caped Crusader in 2005's Batman Begins and 2008's The Dark Knight. The latter—cowritten by their younger brother, Jonathan—has since become the second-highest grossing film of all time.


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[SquidPuppet]

Originally Posted by blu-mike

Los Angeles (E! Online) – Holy headline-making, Batbro!

Matthew Francis Nolan, the older brother of Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan, has been arrested by the FBI in his hometown of Chicago and is now awaiting extradition to Costa Rica to face murder and kidnapping charges.

According to the the bureau's Windy City office, the Violent Crimes Task Force apprehended the 40-year-old Nolan without incident as he was leaving a bankruptcy court hearing yesterday.

Nolan has been wanted in Costa Rica since 2006, when local authorities charged him with the kidnapping and murder of a Florida businessman a year earlier.

According to the FBI complaint, the elder Nolan concocted a Joker-worthy plot to lure the victim, Robert Cohen, to a hotel by pretending to be a multimillionaire jewel merchant hoping to do a business deal. Instead, Nolan intended to recoup $7 million Cohen owed another Florida man. Nolan and an accomplice, Douglas Mejia, allegedly held Cohen ransom in hopes of extracting the money, but when the family failed to meet their demands, they killed him, per the complaint.

Mejia was convicted of kidnapping and murder and is now in prison.

Nolan was collared just as police were probing his role in a separate $700,000 bank-fraud scheme. He's been ordered held without bond until extradition proceedings are completed.

Nolan's 38-year-old sibling, Christopher, broke into Hollywood with the mind-bending thriller Memento and has since gone on to reinvent the Caped Crusader in 2005's Batman Begins and 2008's The Dark Knight. The latter—cowritten by their younger brother, Jonathan—has since become the second-highest grossing film of all time.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/eonline/2009..._top_eo/105428

Wow. Genius run amuck. Bummer.

[Beast]

Man. It's gotta be the Batman Curse.

That stuntman who died during production.
Heath Ledger's death.
Christian Bale's assault on his mother and sister.
Morgan Freeman's car accident.
Liam Neeson's wife dying.
And now this.

[bingtau]

Christopher and Jonathon are a very talented team(duo). I've never heard of Matthew but it's a shame and hopefully there is some good to this story.

[zahinn]

My God...this movie has a curse behind it..
I hope this doesn't ruin the image of Christopher Nolan and Jonathan Nolan. They are classy guys.

[jadedeath]

Originally Posted by bingtau

Christopher and Jonathon are a very talented team(duo). I've never heard of Matthew but it's a shame and hopefully there is some good to this story.

There's some good to a murder?

Logan

[Red Hood]

wow. crazy

[andyman1970]

Originally Posted by zahinn

My God...this movie has a curse behind it..
I hope this doesn't ruin the image of Christopher Nolan and Jonathan Nolan. They are classy guys.

So, do you know these guys personally? Just because they make great films and do great interviews doesn't necessarily mean they are classy.

[Batman1980]

What's the Dark Knight?




























































Sorry felt this thread needed a little comic relief.

[DAROCKNESSMONSTER]

wow.
that was more than a little shocking.

[PH3AR]

if he did it well, no matter what he needs to be punished, even if he is related to someone famous

[cruisyeyes]

I saw the latest Batman movie, The Dark Knight, and let me say, it was TERRIBLE! The stunts were cheap and stupid. Like that helicopter scene? Oh god, can we say, scale model? Doesn't Batman die anyways, all for the better.

[Joe Cain]

Originally Posted by cruisyeyes

The stunts were cheap and stupid. Like that helicopter scene? Oh god, can we say, scale model?

Sure we can. Has nothing to do with the film, though.

[cruisyeyes]

Well, when a film grosses over 500 million, I would expect them to use a real helicopter. And also, that motorcycle thingy, really?

[Leopold BUTTERS]

Originally Posted by cruisyeyes

I saw the latest Batman movie, The Dark Knight, and let me say, it was TERRIBLE! The stunts were cheap and stupid. Like that helicopter scene? Oh god, can we say, scale model? Doesn't Batman die anyways, all for the better.

The helicopter scene was not a scale model. They had to use CG when it was crashing but the second it hit the ground it was a real helicopter. They used an old helicopter and did the crash scene with it on the ground and just matched up a CG helicopter for the part where it is crashing into the buildings then hitting the ground.

[zahinn]

Originally Posted by andyman1970

So, do you know these guys personally? Just because they make great films and do great interviews doesn't necessarily mean they are classy.

They were at a ceremony in Chicago..The crowd wasn't too big. I didnt really speak to them..But they had this aura about them

haha..