Matt Reeves To Direct The Upcoming Batman Solo - Part 2

[Milkman95]

This sounds too good to be true, but damn, I really hope it's even just close to The Long Halloween. I think this type of Batman film is needed, and it's also needed from a Comic Book film in general, to get away from the "safe" formula which was the MCU and others.

 

[Jekecy]

If all these rumors pan out, I’m fully expecting for the entire trilogy to follow the layout of one overarching villain, surrounded by the entirety of Batman’s rogues gallery.

So there’s still a focus of the singular antagonist, without the pitfalls (ideally) of a multi-villain team-up.

 

[OutOfBoose]

I'm having a vertigo from this endless villain list. It's not a good feeling. We recently had an overstuffed piece of **** film and I don't want another.

 

[Boom]

I'm having a vertigo from this endless villain list. It's not a good feeling. We recently had an overstuffed piece of **** film and I don't want another.

I expect some of these will be very brief appearances. Like a few minutes tops.

 

[TheSmoothKnight]

I guess there is a reason why a animated Hush movie coming out next month!

 

[jemoen]

WGTC is unreliable as heck

The way they release News every damn day, I pray that at some point they guess something.
I remember when I was subscribed to the DC subreddit, seeing every day threads from that site too. Lol

 

[Boom]

I guess there is a reason why a animated Hush movie coming out next month!

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That actually leads me to believe that it won't be Hush.

 

[SwordOfMorning]

The Batman Will Reportedly Feature More Than Six Villains



The Plot For Matt Reeves' The Batman Has Been Revealed

Ugh, that would be a dream come true.

It's funny, I both think Hush is a spectacularly lame character from a spectacularly lame story and also that he'd be really well-suited for a film. Mostly because he has a cool design and you could do basically whatever you wanted with him. Don't think anyone would particularly care if you changed his identity.

 

[Rorschach2012]

what about robin

Fingers crossed for a Dark Victory style origin for Robin in The Batman 2 aka The Batman Strikes

 

[thebatfan5194]

The Batman Will Reportedly Feature More Than Six Villains



The Plot For Matt Reeves' The Batman Has Been Revealed

Exactly what I want!

 

[Pennywise]

WGTC is unreliable as heck

This is true! Then again, they did report that Dent and Mad Hatter would be appearing before every other site. Pretty rare instance of them having something reliable.

 

[C Prometheus]

WGTC is unreliable as heck

Yeeep.

 

[The Shape]

This is true! Then again, they did report that Dent and Mad Hatter would be appearing before every other site. Pretty rare instance of them having something reliable.

How have Mad Hatter and Dent been confirmed? I must have missed it.

 

[C Prometheus]

This is true! Then again, they did report that Dent and Mad Hatter would be appearing before every other site. Pretty rare instance of them having something reliable.

I've heard they might have gotten the info from Daniel RPK's Patreon page. No idea how accurate that claim is though, as I don't personally follow his page personally.

 

[Invader Joker]

Yahoo is now part of Oath

For people curious about what Reeves opinion of the Nolan films are, Reeves is appareantly a huge fan of them, he specifically loves how he took the superhero genre so seriously. So yeah, he's definitely not going back to Burton's levels of camp, but we may see some more comic-booky elemts in this movie still as in an interview last year he reiterated he's not continuing what Nolan did.

But, this film is DEFINITELY gonna have a serious tone with his mindset.

"What I love that [Nolan] did was that he took the genre seriously. What studios are willing to make at the moment is a very, very narrow band of films. What I discovered is that this genre has the potential to be about something more. You can use the metaphors of the genre to talk about [a lot]. I think the other thing that I really admire in what [Nolan] did was knowing what it is to make a big studio film, which often can fall into that sense of committee filmmaking where there’s an anonymity to the point of view of the film."

"What I admire in what [Nolan] does is that, despite being a filmmaker in an enormous system, his perspective comes through. That to me was very exciting, it’s always exciting when you see a film of his because of that. That’s what I feel like I’ve been trying to do, it’s trying to allow a perspective to come through despite the fact that we’re in this very large studio movie world."

Matt Reeves interview: Dawn, Andy Serkis and blockbuster filmmaking (This article is from 2014, mind you, so even before signing up on the Batman project he was gushing over Nolan's Batman movies.)

For me, the most exciting summer movies over the last 10 years have done exactly that. They’ve taken the genre as a metaphor for something real. There’s an element of fantasy, whether it’s a superhero with what Christopher Nolan’s done with the Batman series, or whatever - the idea of taking those ideas and then being ambitious with them, so it’s not about giving you the surface effect of the spectacle, but also giving you the story, that is a throwback to me. Back to the stories I loved as a kid growing up, like Spielberg’s movies. The movies that fulfilled the summer excitement quotient, but were also emotional stories about character.

That was definitely my intention on this, so I love that you say that.

I’ve no idea why [more films aren’t like it]. But I will say this: I do think that Chris Nolan’s films, and the films like them, are the ones that made this movie possible.

That was what was exciting for me about The Dark Knight. It wasn’t just successful, it was crazy successful. It took all these elements that were on the surface really commercial, but there were ideas behind them. I thought that the Joker and the exploration of anarchy, the nihilistic terror of that film, was so singular and palpable. I was like, “Oh this is a summer blockbuster, but it’s of a sort that I’ve never seen before.”

 

[CaptainWagner]

I'm having a vertigo from this endless villain list. It's not a good feeling. We recently had an overstuffed piece of **** film and I don't want another.

I have never understood this "You can't have multiple villains" narrative. Almost all of the greatest Batman stories utilize a huge array of his rogues' gallery. Not every bad guy Batman fights needs to have their entire origin explained.

 

[2kt09]

Yahoo is now part of Oath

For people curious about what Reeves opinion of the Nolan films are, Reeves is appareantly a huge fan of them, he specifically loves how he took the superhero genre so seriously. So yeah, he's definitely not going back to Burton's levels of camp, but we may see some more comic-booky elemts in this movie still as in an interview last year he reiterated he's not continuing what Nolan did.

But, this film is DEFINITELY gonna have a serious tone with his mindset.



Matt Reeves interview: Dawn, Andy Serkis and blockbuster filmmaking (This article is from 2014, mind you, so even before signing up on the Batman project he was gushing over Nolan's Batman movies.)

Not big on those flicks, but music to my eyes nonetheless. All the power to him.

 

[TheGuy]

A scene were the villains plot there move would be insane. At some point that has to be presented.

 

[JimThompson]

I have never understood this "You can't have multiple villains" narrative. Almost all of the greatest Batman stories utilize a huge array of his rogues' gallery. Not every bad guy Batman fights needs to have their entire origin explained.

Batman also has the advantage of a fairly well known rogues gallery.

 

[Gothamsknight]

The Batman Will Reportedly Feature More Than Six Villains



The Plot For Matt Reeves' The Batman Has Been Revealed

sounds fantastic if true.

 

[JimThompson]

sounds fantastic if true.

Yes...though execution is everything.

 

[signalman]

If they are loosely adapting "The Long Halloween", then this villain needs a scene or two.

 

[Greenlite]

So maybe sans 1-2 villains, most of the names on the list won’t be important characters going forward?

Cat and Dent would be overarching key characters, maybe Riddler/Hugo would be the main villain?

Other films they still have Joker, Riddler or Hugo, Ivy, Harley, Clayface, Freeze, Hush etc, if MR uses villains in small roles, we could get all the moderate to famous ones in the trilogy

Maybe Dent will be the ally to take down the tough rogues, when he falls, Bat family will rise to even up the playing field

 

[Rorschach2012]

Taking this approach (using multiple villains in each movie) will honestly ensure that this is the definitive Batman franchise. Well presumably get to see all the major villains and I’m guessing we’ll see Dick and Barbara grow into Robin and Batgirl

 

[C Prometheus]

Taking this approach (using multiple villains in each movie) will honestly ensure that this is the definitive Batman franchise. Well presumably get to see all the major villains and I’m guessing we’ll see Dick and Barbara grow into Robin and Batgirl

Yeah, I think this all seems quite plausible for the trilogy. In a perfect scenario, Reeves and Pattinson strike a home run with the trilogy and then decide to keep going and explore further into Bruce's career with the other Robins and other major plot points in the mid-to-late Bat-Lore.

However, for now, I think a trilogy that explores most of the Greatest Hits of the Rogues Gallery and Bruce's initial wave of sidekicks with Robin and Batgirl is more than enough.