In David S. Goyer's newest film, "The Unborn," a young girl is terrorized by an ancient spirit, an entity that is trying to get back into our plane of existence and be born again.

In an article we just published we took a look with Goyer at how that spirit, taken from the Hebraic legend of the dybbuk, influenced his film's nightmare logic and dream imagery, how he purposively left it unexplained to be more frightening.

Well that -- or to save for the sequel.

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Whether you agree or not, judging from both fan reaction and near universal critical acclaim, "The Dark Knight" will almost certainly go down as the greatest comic book movie of all-time, with a performance from Heath Ledger that is being hailed as one of the greatest on-screen villains ever.

Now all Christopher Nolan, his brother Jonathan, David Goyer, and an as yet unnamed villain have to do is top it.

"I think that's the scariest thing – to think, could we come up with a third movie that was as good as the first two? Can we top ourselves?" screenwriter David Goyer asked aloud, almost rhetorically, in a recent conversation with MTV News. "Doing it a third time would be a big proposition." Read more...

We end the week with "Indy 4," Will Smith, and David Goyer highlighting our links of the day. Enjoy!

- Will Smith crane kicks your childhood. Wax on about his plans to make a "Karate Kid" remake. (IGN)

- No time for love Dr. Jones! You're filming in the warehouse from "Raiders." (AICN)

- Another "Vampire" bites David Goyer. "Batman Begins" scribe to direct "Baltimore, or The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire." (Variety)

- Tom Shadyac acquires spec script "Dr. Sensitive," with an eye towards directing. (Hollywood Reporter)

- Ben Kingsley to star as emperor who built the Taj Mahal. (Reuters)

News today on "Captain America," "Castlevania," and "G.I. Joe" highlight our links of the day, along with the tragic death of an online entertainment legend.

- Marvel studio chief talks "Captain America," "Wolverine," "Avengers" and more. (ComingSoon)

- Rock on! Russell Mulcahy to helm "Scorpion King 2." (Shock Till You Drop)

- Know what's going on with "G.I. Joe?" Producer talks status of anticipated flick. And knowing is half the battle. (IGN)

- Classic video game "Castlevania" snares a director. "Stomp the Yard" helmer Sylvain White to join the Belmonts in stomping out vampires. (Variety)

- David Goyer to write and direct another "Invisible" movie. No, not that one...an update of the H.G. Wells classic. (Variety)

- Jeff Daniels and Andy Samberg lend their voices to "Space Chimps." (Variety)

- Carice Van Houten to play Tom Cruise's wife in Bryan Singer's Nazi flick "Valkyrie." (CHUD)

- Editor's Note from Brian Jacks: Finally and sadly, a fond farewell to my good friend Daniel Robert Epstein, whose thousands of interviews graced most of the online entertainment websites you read, but in particular UGO, SuicideGirls, FilmStew and Newsarama. At one point or another, you've read his amazing work, and he'll be very, very missed. (UGO / ComingSoon / CHUD)

After marshalling just about every successful Marvel comic to the big screen, what's left for mega producer Avi Arad to get excited about? "Magneto," he enthused. "I love it!" While we first met the diabolical anti-hero (played with gusto by Ian McKellen) in "X-Men," and followed his mutant crusade through two sequels, it's in "Magneto" that the character will finally get the origin story he so richly deserves, Arad revealed.

"Think of meeting him in [the first "X-Men" movie] as a young boy in a concentration camp. What happens to his life after the war?" he teased of the film's plot. Arad quickly answered his own question, telling MTV News that the flick will follow Magneto discovering "if [his powers are] real or not and the whole journey of [his] survival as a young man."

Directed and co-written by "Batman Begins" scribe David Goyer, the prequel has all sorts "of opportunities for the kind of things that [will] make [it] interesting," Arad contended, including a look at his early friendship with and ultimate rift from Charles Xavier, the mutant who would later become the leader of the X-Men.

Given Magneto is already the head of the militant mutant organization known as The Brotherhood in the first film, will the prequel detail the steps he takes to form that alliance, perhaps highlighting such mutants as Sabertooth and Rebecca Romijn's Mystique? "[Some] amazing surprises that happen in his life [are in store]," Arad coyly answered.

While Arad searches for an actor to play the young Magneto, he can only hope the casting will match that of Robert Downey, Jr., who Arad says is a perfect fit to play Tony Stark/Iron Man. "I think he is Tony. He is cool, he is quick, he is sexy," Arad said in praise of his lead actor. "Tony Stark was this guy who could get away with anything. He had this dual life and you need an amazing actor to play this dual character without superpowers. You have to be two men with one heart."

"Iron Man" arrives in theaters next May, while "Magneto" aims for a 2009 release.