I'm Reading Your Stuff: General News and Discussion Thread

[Invader Joker]

My opinion on adapting characters like Mr. Freeze is that it all boils down to the “science fiction” approach, in its original sense. As long as there's a pseudo-scientific basis to build on, there's a lot you can get your audience to accept, regardless of the setting in which you tell your story.

I may be touching on a forbidden subject here, but if Nolan managed to give us dream-travel technology, time-reversal technology, a killer with half his body burned off, or a cloning machine in his films, while still being considered the “master of realism”, then I think Reeves will have no problem giving us something like Mr.Freeze. We might even consider that he has an advantage, as his Batman universe offers a certain visual stylization that could facilitate the incursion of fantasy. Personally, I could even imagine a Man-Bat variation in this world, which doesn't seem too far removed from the stylistic darkness of Cronenberg's The Fly...

The thing is that if you do a deep dive into everything Matt said about The Batman, he was extremely extremely explicit about the fact he's not really interested in exploring those sort of elements in his take and if anything prided himself on going even /more/ practical and grounded than Nolan did (Which is true, I think the entire Nolan trilogy is waaaay more fantastical than The Batman is and people are kinda mislead by the presentation. Batman Begins had a microwave device that emitted fear toxin while Batman fought with ninjas lol) I don't think it's impossible he changes his mind given it's taken him 2 years to write the script so maybe his mind is in a different place, but I also do think that if he changed his mind on that it'd also lead to at least another major change that something tells me people on these forums would not be happy with at all.

In fact I think part of the reason the people at DC Studios were so comfortable putting BaTB on the slate is probably because Matt's constant statements about how grounded his take was gonna stay.

 

[Eddie Dean]

People can change their mind

 

[Invader Joker]

People can change their mind

Really contributing to the conversation.

 

[DeadlyWest]

 

[DeadlyWest]

I am pleading for crumbs.

 

[Eddie Dean]

Good things come to those who wait

 

[Boom]

I am pleading for crumbs.

Anything at this point.

 

[Mindreaper21]

I think I’ll just drop this here.

 

[solidsnake86]

Saw a rumour from Bobatalks that theo Rossi's character may have originally been Jonathan crane on paper. But that has since changed to Julian rush. Unless that is a cover up like Stanley Merkel.

 

[The Shape]

I still can't believe this movie is actually releasing in 2026. So crazy and disheartening.

 

[Invader Joker]

Still wild to me Rob is almost 40.

 

[J.Drangal]

Still wild to me Rob is almost 40.

Well, he was announced as Batman what... 10-15 years ago?

 

[DeadlyWest]

Still wild to me Rob is almost 40.

It's quite literally been 5 years since he got cast.

COVID had supreme hands, unfortunately.

 

[HBarnill]

Y'know, had they waited til after Elvis came out, Austin Butler would have definitely been cast as Batman. Or The Joker. He's shown he could play both roles.

 

[Invader Joker]

Y'know, had they waited til after Elvis came out, Austin Butler would have definitely been cast as Batman. Or The Joker. He's shown he could play both roles.

Definitely Joker. If The Batman had been made post 2022 it'd have been Jacob Elordi as Batman.

 

[HBarnill]

Definitely Joker. If The Batman had been made post 2022 it'd have been Jacob Elordi as Batman.

There's a connection between them.

Both have starred alongside Zendaya in a WB-owned project. Also with Sydney Sweeney in a project.

 

[Eddie Dean]

Whoa

 

[SwordOfMorning]

Definitely Joker. If The Batman had been made post 2022 it'd have been Jacob Elordi as Batman.

Either would have been a great Batman, not sure why you think it’d default be Elordi though? Elordi was my preferred Superman choice if it absolutely had to be a white dude, actually think he’s better for that than Batman. Barry would be even more likely Joker casting if it were cast today though, he’s only become a bigger and bigger deal.

 

[flickchick85]

Elordi has not an ounce of Superman in him. He’s a Batman all the way imo.

 

[Eddie Dean]

I think if the Batman was made post 2022 it would still be Robert Pattinson

 

[SwordOfMorning]

Elordi has not an ounce of Superman in him. He’s a Batman all the way imo.

He’s a more obvious Batman but there’s something about his presence and physicality that makes me think of Reeve. I also think he could pull off the bumbling gawky doofus stuff as well as the more angelic side.

 

[HBarnill]

 

[TheSmoothKnight]

 

[TheSmoothKnight]

https://ew.com/the-penguin-bridges-...=new&utm_medium=social&utm_source=***********

The obvious question is whether Pattinson’s Batman shows up. Not surprisingly, everyone we asked adhered to the rules of the criminal underworld: no snitches. For what it’s worth, the show mostly plays out in broad daylight, while the Bat only operates at night. But don’t count him out just yet.

We are the bridge between the two films,” LeFranc reveals, referring to The Batman and Reeves’ sequel, slated for 2026. “We’re going almost directly into the second film Matt has planned.”

“Meanwhile, the Bat-spansion continues. “There’s another television exploration we’re going to do,” Clark says. “We’re looking at this entire world as it relates to who Batman is — the antagonists around them, all the crime that has to be navigated in the city — and trying to figure out where are the areas that are best to explore.”

 

[The Shape]

Would honestly have much preferred Austin Butler as Joker compared to Barry.