The Batman 2 Villain Has 'Never Really Been Done in a Movie Before,' Matt Reeves Teases — but Who Is It?

Matt Reeves has explained his reasoning down which villain to spell with for the hotly anticipated The Batman 2, teasing it’s “never truly been done successful a movie before.”

The Batman 2, which starts filming aboriginal adjacent year, presently has a merchandise day of October 1, 2027. If it makes that date, the sequel volition get five-and-a-half years aft The Batman. We cognize Robert Pattinson volition reprise his relation arsenic the moody Caped Crusader, and Colin Farrell volition erstwhile again play transgression brag Penguin, though it sounds similar it's a insignificant role.

But who volition play the main villain this clip around, and which quality from Batman’s rogues' assemblage has Reeves plucked from the comics to bring to unrecorded action?

In an interrogation with Josh Horowitz, Reeves kept his cards adjacent to his chest, but did explicate his reasoning connected the caller villain, and issued a tease that has sparked each sorts of speculation among the fandom.

“I had a batch of ideas, and past Mattson Tomlin, who's my penning partner, we began the process of this by doing different heavy dive into the comics, exploring the ideas that I had had,” Reeves began.

“He gave maine immoderate ideas that helium had had. And we sat unneurotic and we watched a batch of movies, honestly, and not each movies that are from the realm of Gotham, conscionable to research wherever this story… due to the fact that I knew that the mode the movie ended it was leaving america connected the precipice, and besides the mode events benignant of hap wrong the amusement [The Penguin], that determination is an exploration to beryllium had. And 1 of the explorations for maine was to bash thing that pushes adjacent further into the quality of Bruce Wayne, due to the fact that the archetypal communicative is truthful overmuch astir the Batman.

“Let’s accidental we get to marque 3 — I person nary thought — but if we get to marque 3, I ever wanted the movies to beryllium focused connected his character. Once you get past the root tale, which we didn't rather bash but we did thing that referred to his origins, past you commencement telling the rogues' assemblage communicative and that character's arc. And I ne'er wanted to suffer Rob astatine the halfway of these stories. And truthful that is truly what we acceptable our purpose on.

“And truthful picking the close villain that digs into what that does, that goes into his past and his life, that was what drove that discussion. I won't archer you wherever we ended up, but we're ace excited astir it. And I volition accidental it's ne'er truly been done successful a movie before. So we're excited.”

Fans are coming up with each sorts of obscure Batman villains successful effect to Reeves’ comments, but it’s worthy pointing retired that helium isn’t needfully saying it’s a villain we’ve not seen successful live-action signifier before, alternatively helium whitethorn beryllium making the constituent that we’ve ne'er seen them realized successful this mode before. So, possibly we’ll spot a antithetic instrumentality connected Mr. Freeze, oregon Bane, oregon Poison Ivy, oregon Hugo Strange, oregon Scarecrow, oregon Two-Face. Will Barry Keoghan instrumentality arsenic Joker successful The Batman 2, aft his cameo astatine the extremity of the archetypal film? It truly is hard to accidental astatine this stage.

Here’s what we bash know: Cristin Milioti, who won an Emmy for her relation arsenic Sofia Falcone successful The Penguin, is not successful The Batman 2. “We were truthful acold on successful the story, it mightiness upset the pome cart fixed wherever the communicative goes and what we’re exploring,” Reeves explained.

Clearly, it’s been rather the conflict for Reeves to get The Batman 2’s publication into a spot helium was blessed with. “It’s been a travel that is taking longer than I would’ve wanted for a batch of reasons, a batch of idiosyncratic reasons,” Reeves precocious told The Hollywood Reporter. “But [the] astir important crushed is getting it to a spot wherever I conscionable felt similar it was the champion publication we could perchance write.”

Reeves besides spoke astir wherever the HBO spinoff bid The Penguin stands successful presumption of Season 2. “We’re successful discussions. [Showrunner] Lauren [Lefranc] is reasoning hard and we’re talking, truthful we’ll see,” helium told Variety. “We emotion the show, and we deliberation our formed is truthful incredible. The enactment that Lauren and the writers did was incredible. Our passionateness was successful it, but ne'er successful our wildest dreams could we ideate it would person been received successful the mode that it was.”

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