The Batman General News & Discussion Thread - Part 2

[TheSmoothKnight]

DC After 'Batgirl': 'Joker 2' Paydays, the Search for New Kevin Feige - Variety

 

[Boom]

Greenlight sometime next year would be my guess.

 

[dhandler01]

They will greenlight when he has a script to show them. Variety is playing fast and loose with the facts if you ask me...

 

[TheSmoothKnight]

People freaking out of course…

 

[Iceman]

As for this search for a DC Feige, if the right person did come along would they want to work with the restrictions of Zaslav? How many of the MCU films and shows would he have disallowed?

 

[WayneMB]

I love how variety was the first to report this down here earlier in the year lol.
'The Batman' Sequel in the Works With Robert Pattinson - Variety
this is just all wordplay. it's been technically greenlit because Matt is working on the script. it will be officially greenlit when he shows the higher ups what he cooked up

 

[Boom]

Development happens before a greenlight. And a greenlight usually involves a draft of a script, which Reeves does not have yet. With all due respect, this should be common sense.

 

[J.Drangal]

DC After 'Batgirl': 'Joker 2' Paydays, the Search for New Kevin Feige - Variety

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It's incredibly ironic that for once the DCEU has with The Flash a movie-event apparently on track to be, at least, an audience success, the whole thing is drowned out by its lead actor going off on rampage.
Since 2013, this whole cinematic universe project has been nothing but a succession of disappointments, misfortunes and other unseen drama. It's frankly quite surreal.

The little icing on the cake is that the only DC adaptations that have done the best, both critically and financially, are finally the two projects outside of this whole enterprise ; Joker and The Batman.
I don't know how many more signs WB needs!

 

[Gothamsknight]

2025 at the earliest

 

[shauner111]

Even after all that Miller has done, I still want to see The Flash. I don’t even care if it’s unceremoniously dropped on HBO Max, I just want to see the return of Keatonbat and the Burtonverse. Hell, it’d be cool just to see a live action Flashpoint.

I don’t know about the rest of ‘ya, but I’d be pretty damn bummed if it went the way of the Batgirl and disappeared off the face of the earth.

Yeah I agree with @BatLobster where it’s like Jesus Christ, what are they waiting for? Murder? Suicide? Another kidnapping? But at the same time as a fan I’m like damn just give me this one Keaton return.

 

[Mysteryman]

Greenlight sometime next year would be my guess.

yeah nothing to. worry about.
But, Internet will be Internet.

 

[shauner111]

The sequel is happening, but I can see fans getting worried that Matt could hand in his script next year and the higher ups go “umm we don’t really want this. We’ll greenlight when you make some adjustments”. Can this happen? I guess? But I’m not worried. I have full confidence that the script + Matt’s mouth (this guy can talk anyone into fighting a war) will put smiles on their faces.

 

[TheSmoothKnight]

DC is nothing but a mess right now. I can see why people are freaking out because what happened with Batgirl. Its rough being a DC fan lol

 

[GothamCity]

Would be really strange if this film doesnt get a sequel.

 

[BatLobster]

This is where it can helpful to take a step back and remember the days when there wasn't an entire industry of taking entertainment non-news and turning into clickbait and 'content' on a daily basis.

There was a period after Batman Begins came out where a sequel wasn't officially "greenlit". One step at a time.

 

[TheSmoothKnight]

IGN with the tasty clickbait tweet this morning "reportedly put the future of Matt Reeves' franchise into flux." With big red letters of The Batman not greenlit

No surprise that all of the entertainment websites were chomping at the bit to get these clickbait titles out quickly.

 

[DlAMONDZ]

How odd. Didn't they publicly come out and announce a sequel couple months ago?

Still. Reeves took ages on the first script so we're gonna have to wait a while before there's something to green light

 

[Gothamsknight]

There's definitely gonna be a sequel. I have zero doubts about that.

 

[titansupes]

There's no way a sequel isn't happening. If and to what degree this Zaslav guy starts interfering though... that's the worry.

 

[Erik Lensherr]

As for this search for a DC Feige, if the right person did come along would they want to work with the restrictions of Zaslav? How many of the MCU films and shows would he have disallowed?

I don't want a "DC Feige". I want creativity and risk-taking

 

[Iceman]

I don't want a "DC Feige". I want creativity and risk-taking

I think they want a general coordinator. Doesn’t have to be anything like Feige outside of being able to manage a slate of films and their releases well - that can still involve creativity and risk-taking.

 

[Iceman]

It’s an unpredictable period where unprecedented things have been happening. Logic would tell you all is fine for Batman films at least, but you never know what's on the horizon with management changing and being aggressive in many directions and also likely under many simultaneous pressures, aggravated by the share price crash. There were no real fears about no sequel or about much in general until the new guys came and launched a nuke just before their earnings. They may not even get the time to see out their own plans.

 

[dhandler01]

As for this search for a DC Feige, if the right person did come along would they want to work with the restrictions of Zaslav? How many of the MCU films and shows would he have disallowed?

From what I hear half the MCU shows should have never happened

And I would guess, once they have found a way to reshuffle the deck that there aren't as many restrictions. Right now they need to "right the ship" and they definitely need to get rid of a lot of red ink. There will be plenty of content, the shows will just end up on HBO not be streaming exclusive.

 

[Iceman]

From what I hear half the MCU shows should have never happened

And I would guess, once they have found a way to reshuffle the deck that there aren't as many restrictions. Right now they need to "right the ship" and they definitely need to get rid of a lot of red ink. There will be plenty of content, the shows will just end up on HBO not be streaming exclusive.

Haha, yeah they need to have a higher consistent quality given the quality of the best non CBM shows around these days.

If it's like that there are so many better ways of communicating their plan - and for DC they need to keep fans onside given all the turbulence since the TDK era. We've seen how well it's gone down and really these guys earning millions should have been aware of that possibility and how to better word their ideas to get people onside. Hopefully The Batman is one project they get fully behind given they like big event films, and give it the budget it needs and Reeves the freedom he needs to help achieve what they're looking for.

 

[dhandler01]

It’s an unpredictable period where unprecedented things have been happening. Logic would tell you all is fine for Batman films at least, but you never know what's on the horizon with management changing and being aggressive in many directions and also likely under many simultaneous pressures, aggravated by the share price crash. There were no real fears about no sequel or about much in general until the new guys came and launched a nuke just before their earnings. They may not even get the time to see out their own plans.

In times like this you definitely keep the things that made you money. The Batman was too profitable (and Reeves is great at keeping to budgets) for anyone to not approve a sequel. It is probably the only lock for future films at this point along with Joker 2. If The Batman wasn't a huge success you would have a point, but Batman stuff is the most popular and makes the most money and the film was both critically and audience beloved. Even using basic box office equations (total budget = 2.5 production budget) the film made over $300 million in profit. And that was a reboot. A sequel will be a frontloaded cash cow that will make up for a lot of bad Kilar decisions.

tl;dr: Its coming unless Matt Reeves says otherwise.