Matt Reeves teases a couple of plot particulars for The Batman Half II, including that DC has seen the script and is “tremendous excited.”
Followers have been anxiously awaiting the discharge of The Batman Half II, however the undertaking has been relatively gradual to begin as director Matt Reeves desires to get it precisely proper. Whereas talking with SFX Journal (by way of ComicBookMovie), Reeves dropped a couple of slight but tantalizing tidbits concerning the upcoming sequel.
“We’ve shared [the script] as we’ve been going together with DC, they usually’re tremendous excited,” Reeves mentioned. “It’s going to dig into the epic story about deeper corruption, and it goes into locations [Bruce Wayne] couldn’t even anticipate within the first one. The seeds of the place this goes are all within the first film & it expands in a method that may present you features of the character you by no means acquired to see. Batman is consistently battling these forces. However these forces can’t be completely exorcised. So the subsequent film delves deeper into that.” Corruption. Thriller. Batman. I prefer it. The director additionally confirmed that “Colin [Farrell] will probably be a part of the film” because the Penguin.
Whereas the Batman comics (and a few of the films) do embrace loads of fantastical characters, Reeves is about on preserving his model of Gotham Metropolis extra reasonable. “What was vital to me was to discover a solution to take these pop icons, these mythic characters that everyone is aware of, and translate it in order that Gotham appears like a spot in our world,” Reeves defined. “We would push to the sting of fantastical, however we’d by no means go into full fantastical. It’s meant to really feel fairly grounded.“
That mentioned, this doesn’t imply we received’t see a few of the extra iconic Batman characters, they’ll simply be seen by the extra grounded lens of Reeves’ story. “It doesn’t imply that you simply received’t see characters that individuals love. That’s precisely what we wish to do,” Reeves mentioned. “Gentleman Ghost might be pushed a bit too far for us to have the ability to discover a solution to do, however there’s a enjoyable method to consider how we’d take characters that may push over right into a little bit of the fantastical and discover a solution to make sense of that.“
As a giant fan of the primary film, I’m desirous to see the place Matt Reeves takes us with The Batman Half II, however we’re nonetheless a methods off from the undertaking hitting our screens. Co-writer Mattson Tomlin advised ScreenRant final month that the sequel would lastly begin capturing subsequent 12 months. The Batman Half II is presently slated for an October 2, 2026 launch.
