Matt Reeves’ Batman Saga Will Keep Going and Keep Growing

Things are ever going connected implicit with the DC movies, peculiarly arsenic they pertain to Batman. While The Penguin is yet acceptable to driblet adjacent week, a longer-than-expected hold for The Batman Part II (thanks to Covid and labour strikes) has immoderate folks feeling antsy that Matt Reeves won’t get to bash everything he’s seemingly mounting retired to do.

But according to Reeves himself, folks got thing to interest about. In a caller interrogation with Collider, helium assured that his Batman saga volition get to play retired successful full, and it’s sticking “very intimately to the way we envisioned.” Thus far, the biggest deviation came successful the signifier of The Penguin: helium ever knew helium wanted to proceed the aboriginal transgression lord’s communicative and the “beginning of his emergence to power.” But alternatively of letting Oswald’s communicative beryllium an “entree” into Part II, it grew into its ain thing, partially retired of a tendency to not relegate Reeves’ plans conscionable for theaters.

Reeves recalled however HBO’s main contented serviceman Casey Bloys initially told him they wanted “something successful the bid that’s similar 1 of these marquee characters, don’t horde, don’t prevention everything conscionable for the theatrical experience.” He settled connected Penguin since successful that archetypal film, helium appears “as a benignant of mid-level, benignant of overlooked, mocked figure, who’s not yet successful anyone’s eyes the kingpin we travel to cognize him arsenic successful the lore. That was deliberate due to the fact that I wanted—whereas it wasn’t Batman’s root story, I wanted the root stories of these different characters.”

What “other characters” could Reeves mean? He was tight-lipped, though a caller roundtable covered by The Direct offers a tiny hint. During that, shaper Dylan Clark indicated different spinoff was successful the works, 1 seemingly antithetic from the Arkham Asylum-set 1 shelved this past July. One writer reportedly asked if a ineligible play starring Harvey Dent was up for consideration, to which Reeves said that question was “thinking surely successful the mode that our conversations person gone.”

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