Batmanhas beenMatt Reeves' hero since he was 3 years old.
Reeves never considered himself a writer.
Writing was merely the first step to make a movie.
Matt Reeves takes EW inside his plans for The Batman Epic Crime Saga.Getty Images; Warner Bros; HBO
“He put us through this series of exercises,” Reeves says of Loeb.
“We just started working on screenplays.
I could see that they had such a cinematic sensibility, Reeves says of Loebs comic titles.
Colin Farrell as Oz Cobb in ‘The Penguin’.Macall Polay/Max
I could say, You’re doing aGodfather-esque thing, but within the Batman world.
Farrells Oz is already set to return for that sequel, as well.
And Reeves and his producing partner Dylan Clark are considering even more tie-in television series.
Colin Farrell from ‘The Penguin’.HBO
I want it to all be this sweeping Batman crime epic.”
Over the years, as Discovery purchased WarnerMedia to create the now-merged Warner Bros. (Batman looking out once again, perhaps?)
“In the process of figuring out what something is, it evolves,” Reeves explains.
I got it right at that moment."
So Batman’s going to be right at the center of that.
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While the GCPD seriesdid not move forward, parts of that treatment werereworked forThe Penguin.
It’s not like that just didn’t work.
It was like, we need to evolve this.
And yes, he does have general guidelines for what that will all be.
One, Pattinson’s Batman will stick to the movies, at least for now.
But that was an afterthought."
Speaking to more broad themes, he muses on how Gotham is perennially corrupt.
“It’s more that it’s taking place within this same world,” he continues.
The Batman of his childhood imaginations would be proud.
