Matt Reeves teases a couple of plot particulars for The Batman Half II, including that DC has seen the script and is “super excited.”
Followers have been anxiously awaiting the discharge of The Batman Half II, however the mission has been moderately gradual to begin as director Matt Reeves needs to get it precisely proper. Whereas talking with SFX Journal (by way of ComicBookMovie), Reeves dropped a couple of slight but tantalizing tidbits in regards to the upcoming sequel.
“We’ve shared [the script] as we’ve been going along with DC, and they’re super excited,” Reeves mentioned. “It’s going to dig into the epic story about deeper corruption, and it goes into places [Bruce Wayne] couldn’t even anticipate in the first one. The seeds of where this goes are all in the first movie & it expands in a way that will show you aspects of the character you never got to see. Batman is constantly battling these forces. But those forces can’t be entirely exorcised. So the next movie delves deeper into that.” Corruption. Thriller. Batman. I prefer it. The director additionally confirmed that “Colin [Farrell] will be part of the movie” because the Penguin.
Whereas the Batman comics (and a number of the films) do embrace loads of fantastical characters, Reeves is ready on maintaining his model of Gotham Metropolis extra reasonable. “What was important to me was to find a way to take these pop icons, these mythic characters that everybody knows, and translate it so that Gotham feels like a place in our world,” Reeves defined. “We’d push to the sting of fantastical, however we might by no means go into full fantastical. It’s meant to really feel fairly grounded.“
That mentioned, this doesn’t imply we gained’t see a number of the extra iconic Batman characters, they’ll simply be seen by means of the extra grounded lens of Reeves’ story. “It doesn’t mean that you won’t see characters that people love. That’s exactly what we want to do,” Reeves mentioned. “Gentleman Ghost might be pushed a bit too far for us to have the ability to discover a option to do, however there’s a enjoyable manner to consider how we might take characters which may push over right into a little bit of the fantastical and discover a option to make sense of that.“
As a giant fan of the primary film, I’m desperate to see the place Matt Reeves takes us with The Batman Half II, however we’re nonetheless a methods off from the mission hitting our screens. Co-writer Mattson Tomlin informed ScreenRant final month that the sequel would lastly begin capturing subsequent yr. The Batman Half II is at the moment slated for an October 2, 2026 launch.
