Matt Reeves To Direct The Upcoming Batman Solo - Part 2

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At this point all I'm concerned with is when the film will get into production.
 
The question I have, and concern , at this point, is WB ability to wait for Matt Reeves to make the project as good as possible. My concern is that WB, as they've done in the past, will they start to get anxious, restless, an try to rush the film into theaters, which in itself would likely result in yet more of the type of director drama we've seen in the development of other projects.

Hopefully ,WB will be willing to wait and let some of their other projects take center stage while Reeves crafts The Batman. Then again, WB may not have a choice but to wait given that they can't just rush out an make another Batman film in time for 2020.
 
You really can't deny that this movie has taken forever. I know we like to be optimistic, but we have to be real sometimes too. I'm hoping it'll be worth the wait. 2021 is laughable. It should not have taken this long.
 
You really can't deny that this movie has taken forever. I know we like to be optimistic, but we have to be real sometimes too. I'm hoping it'll be worth the wait. 2021 is laughable. It should not have taken this long.
I’ve never known you to be optimistic :funny:
 
I wonder if WB will put more pressure on Reeves to get going with this now that The Flash has been delayed.
I think SOMETHING will be rushed into production.
 
I’ve never known you to be optimistic :funny:

he said "we" not "I"

=P

but seriously, the guy finished Apes July 2017 and it's gonna take him 4 years to make a film? lol WTF.

I don't know guys, how long does it take to go from completed script to preparation for production i.e. scouting, casting etc?

If Reeves doesn't have a script by mid-2019 then you've gotta wonder if he's got a good story for it...and Batman can make blockbuster money around Thanksgiving if they're giving summer to WW84
 
I wonder if WB will put more pressure on Reeves to get going with this now that The Flash has been delayed.
I think SOMETHING will be rushed into production.

Yeah, unless they're willing to let Reeves take his time and unless they aren't in a rush to bring another Batman film to the big screen.
 
The Dark Knight Rises took 4 years to make

I repeat.
The Dark Knight Rises took 4 years to make

I don't mean to sound rude but gee, stop being so paranoid. WB has always been patient with the Batman franchise.
 
The Dark Knight Rises took 4 years to make

I repeat.
The Dark Knight Rises took 4 years to make

I don't mean to sound rude but gee, stop being so paranoid. WB has always been patient with the Batman franchise.
Yeah dude but Nolan made a movie in between TDK and TDKR, it’s not the same situation at all and should only make us more paranoid
Reeves is taking a weirdly long time
 
Yeah dude but Nolan made a movie in between TDK and TDKR, it’s not the same situation at all and should only make us more paranoid
Reeves is taking a weirdly long time
There's a real possibility there may be a whole set of other factors on this, as evidenced with Wonder Woman 1984.
 
Is it Reeves or is it WB? I know there have been reports saying ''WB is happy with Reeves' draft'' etc, but I'm willing to believe that it's WB being morons.
 
If you ask me, I think it's marketing reasons more than anything else.
Justice League was such a huge flop WB is gonna desperately want people to forget about that side of the DCEU.

In 2020, with the presidential election stuff, the next Batman game and so on, the world is gonna feel so different that people are really not going to remember Batfleck at all.

That leaves the public with a fresh and open mind, ready to accept and get hyped for a new Batman without immediately going "this is gonna be ****, let's watch Ant Man instead"
 
Also, it's entirely possible WB is planning to release a Batman Arkham videogame (and that is no small thing, they are always HUGE events in pop culture, as big as movies) and they just don't want the marketing to turn confusing for General Audiences. If you examine it, there has never been a Batman Movie released the same year as a Batman videogame. In part that may be coincidence but even if it was I doubt WBs marketing team wants to play with fire.

This sounds far fetched but that's how marketing people think.
 
The marketing plan probably goes like this.

Arkham game is announced next year.
For a whole year, Batman fans are hyped about that.

The next year it releases.
After it's released, they remember what they love about the character so much and WB leaves them starving for more Batman for a whole another year. The word of mouth from gamers to non gamers and all the marketing surrounding the game, also makes the General Audience start having a clean slate idea of the character.

So by the time Matt Reeves Batman comes out, they go flocking in masses because "Batman is ****ing awesome bruh, did you play that new Batman game!? It was so cool!"

And since ON TOP of that the general public will be distracted with the next election and what not they'll be more quick to forget about Affleck, and the only new idea of Batman they'll have in mind is of "that videogame that their buddy Ryan is alwsys saying is awesome and I've seen some gritty promotion of it"

There's obviously more factors into play but marketing plans generally work like that.
 
I said this before, but people should also remember that there may be a business side to this. WB already has two big tentpoles lined up for 2020 (Wonder Woman 1984 and Birds of Prey). If there's no rush to get Batman back out there, they may want it in 2021 just so they have at least one tentpole scheduled for that calendar year.

This new report even states that the game plan is still for production to commence in spring/summer of 2019, so it's not like the script is such a work in progress that Reeves is needing another year to write it. Shooting a film in 2019 and having it release in 2021 sounds like studio positioning to me. It's not unlike what happened with WW84. The film would have likely been completed in time for its initial November 2019 release, but the studio decided to move it to June 2020 because:

1) The first film had success in the summer season.
2) It gives them another DC film for 2020 after The Flash got delayed.
3) It moves WW84 away from some stiff competition in 2019.

The push to 2020 isn't indicative of creative issues with WW84. It's just a business move. I think the same thought process may be in play here.
 
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That too. They don't want to over saturate the superhero movie market. They may have realized "Too many superhero movies are releasing in 2020, we better slow down, don't want to contribute to a larger possible audience fatigue.
 
That said, if The Joker does well at box office, I can see WB considering an October 2020 release date.
 
They wouldn't put Batman out in October. They will want more prime real estate for him. Joker is a smaller film, so October for that makes sense. Batman will be one of the studios (if not the biggest) of that year. It will get their best date.
 
I'd be all for them putting Batman in October. Studios are starting to see some success in that month, and I don't think Batman would be any exception.

And honestly, with its noir/gothic/thriller elements, I'd say Batman feels more like a fall property anyway.
 
They wouldn't put Batman out in October. They will want more prime real estate for him. Joker is a smaller film, so October for that makes sense. Batman will be one of the studios (if not the biggest) of that year. It will get their best date.
If Black Panther and Venom has taught the studios anything is that you can in theory release a film in any month, even an unusual month and end up getting a bunch of big bucks.
I can see them doing that with Batman, especially as they'd be having virtually no competition that month, any other movie that comes out will be completely eclipsed by Batman.

Especially as the dark and gritty atmosphere of the character and the marketing that comes with him, fits October.
 
If Black Panther and Venom has taught the studios anything is that you can in theory release a film in any month, even an unusual month and end up getting a bunch of big bucks.
I can see them doing that with Batman

Especially as the dark and gritty atmosphere of the character and the marketing that comes with him, fits October.

Any date can be successful, yes. But that doesn't change the fact that theaters make the bulk of their earnings at certain times of the year. They're going to likely drop Batman around July given prior history with the character. Films like Black Panther were shockers. They didn't put it there thinking it would make that much money. Marvel Studios gave their prime real estate to IW. Batman will be treated closer to IW than BP.
 
Any date can be successful, yes. But that doesn't change the fact that theaters make the bulk of their earnings at certain times of the year. They're going to likely drop Batman around July given prior history with the character. Films like Black Panther were shockers. They didn't put it there thinking it would make that much money. Marvel Studios gave their prime real estate to IW. Batman will be treated closer to IW than BP.
I love Batman but it being threated as IW? I really doubt that. Maybe the sequel will or the third one but a revival of the character I do believe would be more akin to Black Panther, as audiences are yet to be familiar with this new take on the character.
 
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