Matt Reeves Won’t Say Who He Wants to Play With Next in His Batman Universe

Now that we are surviving successful a satellite wherever Colin Farrell successful Max’s recently released The Penguin amusement is putting connected the show of his career, each eyes are connected The Batman manager Matt Reeves to springiness a accidental which subordinate of the celebrated rogues’ assemblage fans should expect to spot next. Although Reeves is inactive holding his cards adjacent to the thorax (that isn’t a hint), helium has shared immoderate penetration into what helium envisions for the aboriginal of his sliver of Batman projects moving forward.

In an interrogation with Entertainment Weekly, Reeves said the Batman Epic Crime Saga volition amusement fans however acheronian facets of the American Dream person tarnished Gotham City. As EW notes, Reeve’s spirit of storytelling is already successful question successful The Penguin, with Oz Cobb‘s emergence to powerfulness akin to Tony Montana’s successful Scarface. Only, instrumentality Tony Montana’s communicative and springiness it the finger-pinching gesticulation of HBO’s ain Tony Soprano.

“If you bash ticker the full thing, it is an epic communicative and a meditation connected the corruption and wherefore Gotham is the mode it is,” Reeves told EW. “When I speech astir the different shows that we’re talking astir doing, what’s breathtaking is to deliberation astir going down different alley that we weren’t capable to spell down with The Penguin and The Batman.”

Like astir Warner Bros. Discovery projects, the chances that we’ll spot Reeve’s BECS travel to beingness beryllium connected spectator reception to The Penguin and whether the institution wants to scrap it alongside the different DC-centric projects.

While Reeves remained tight-lipped connected what large players volition oregon won’t beryllium a portion of his Batman extended universe, helium fto escaped a bombshell that could supply penetration into which villains mightiness beryllium under-considered.  It turns retired being a pupil of the crippled that is Batman isn’t conscionable a cute operation for Reeves—because his assemblage screenwriting prof portion studying astatine the University of Southern California was nary different than Jeph Loeb, the famed comic publication writer down The Long Halloween, Hush, Dark Victory, and Haunted Knight. Reeves went connected to admit that overmuch of his attack and benignant to directing The Batman was influenced by Loeb.

“I could spot that they had specified a cinematic sensibility,” Reeves said regarding Loeb’s Batman comics. “I could say, ‘You’re doing a Godfather-esque thing, but wrong the Batman world. I get it.'”

While Reeves’ formative influences aren’t a foolproof theory-crafting thread worthy breaking retired a corkboard and yarn to foretell whether villains similar the Mad Hatter, Scarecrow, Poison Ivy, oregon Joker are adjacent successful enactment for Reeve’s movie noir comic publication exploration of Batman, they’re much than the thing we had earlier his interrogation with EW.

According to EW, The Batman II‘s publication is finished and is expected to statesman filming adjacent year.

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