Christopher Nolan's next film set for 2017. Could it be...

Legendary filmmaker Christopher Nolan's next film has been set for a 2017 release. Warner Bros has scheduled the as-of-yet untitled film bang in the middle of the summer movie season. Speculation is rife whether this could mean Nolan's film is Ben Affleck's solo Batman movie.

The Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan's next as-yet-untitled movie has been given a July 21, 2017 release date.

Christopher Nolan with his weapon of choice, the IMAX camera. (Twitter)

The 45-year-old filmmaker is directing the movie, which will be his first feature since Interstellar that opened last November, scoring a worldwide gross of USD 673 million, reported Entertainment Weekly.

Warner Bros, which has all rights on the new project, has earlier handled all three films in Nolan's Dark Knight series — Batman Begins, The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises — along with his 2010 sci-fi hit Inception.

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Nolan's latest project was Quay

, a short film about stop-motion animation masters and twin brothers Stephen and Timothy Quay.

No further details have been released.