THR: Matt Reeves is meeting with writers and directors for movies focused on Batman's Rogue Gallery (Scarecrow, Clayface, Professor Pyg mentioned)
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Please no. This "let's make solo movies about all of this hero's villains, WITHOUT said hero" trend sucks when Sony does it and it'll suck when WB does it.
The Joker is one of the best movies that Warner brothers had put out in years before Dune . Thus , making this point, rubbish .
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Pretty sure the output for The Batman's Universe is looking like:
The Batman's sequel
The Penguin (HBO Max Show)
Matt Reeves' Arkham Asylum HBO Max Show (previously a Gotham PD show)
And now, movies for Scarecrow, Clayface and Professor Pyg (possibly more as well)
There was also a Catwoman HBO Max Show discussed at one point as well
Unless they plan to have Batman featured in each movie in some significant way, I don't think I would be interested in seeing every notable villain get some origin story/feature film.
Free idea for them. Resurrect the Gotham PD show they wanted to do for HBO Max and focus each season on a new member of the rogue galley.
There is no need for individual movies based on villains. Limited run series on HBO Max seem to be the better approach to me.
Either way, it looks like Reeves gets to play in his own sandbox and that's all I care about in the grand scheme of things.
There is no need for individual movies based on villains. Limited run series on HBO Max seem to be the better approach to me.
Either way, it looks like Reeves gets to play in his own sandbox and that's all I care about in the grand scheme of things.
It's barely even a Joker movie in any way. You could completely erase the DC branding from that movie and lose nothing because it's basically just a movie about a murderer who wears clown makeup.
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Doesn't make it any worse regardless. Joker is still one of the best movies that WB has put out years. If they can do similar movies to Joker, the movies will be perfectly fine.
These projects are gonna take awhile to ramp up. Like we could be well into production on Batman 3 by the time this "Gotham universe" is in full swing. And is Pattinson really gonna be on board for much longer than 3 movies?
Batman's villains have such good concepts that they can stand alone, I don't have a problem with this.
How dare you . It take inspiration from the king of comedy and most importantly, Taxi Driver .
Surprised people are down on this. Supervillain slasher/psychological horror films or Gotham PD thrillers investigating the city's batshit underworld could be cool
Hey the Undisputed movies made it work, so it is possible
I dunno about that when they couldnt help themselves with the "secret wayne" plotpoint and forcing us to watch martha get blasted away again
Make a better Batman film first.
It's not impossible to do other films, it might actually be more interesting if you get most of the backstory out the way in such films and they could be anything, not blockbusters by any means, I think the problem is can you make any of it work and not realise 10 years have passed before they have any good crossover.
It's not impossible to do other films, it might actually be more interesting if you get most of the backstory out the way in such films and they could be anything, not blockbusters by any means, I think the problem is can you make any of it work and not realise 10 years have passed before they have any good crossover.
this is fine, but I question why. there's certainly room to have a very large batman cinematic universe that's separate from other DC stuff, but how about you introduce the batfamily and let them have their time to shine? have scarecrow be a villain a nightwing movie. have firefly be a villain in a batgirl movie, you know?
This sounds rad. It doesn't mean we aren't getting more Batman, just that Matt Reeves is getting to do his thing while creating a universe. WB makes good movies, Sony mostly does not.
There's also nothing stating they can't use the Batfamily.
There's also nothing stating they can't use the Batfamily.
I could see a horror, R-Rated slasher with Professor Pyg as a decent low-to-mid budget Halloween movie. Throw in an appearance or two of some of Gotham's finest and you're good to go.
Not sure where the other ones fit though
Edit: on second thought, Jason Todd forms a good relationship, eventually, with a survivor of Pyg. Mix up the story a bit and I could see Todd being one of of the "survivors" of the Pyg movie before he links up with Bruce.
The idea above of Grayson or Barbara showing up I the other movies makes a lot of sense too.
Not sure where the other ones fit though
Edit: on second thought, Jason Todd forms a good relationship, eventually, with a survivor of Pyg. Mix up the story a bit and I could see Todd being one of of the "survivors" of the Pyg movie before he links up with Bruce.
The idea above of Grayson or Barbara showing up I the other movies makes a lot of sense too.
Reeves Feige-ing his own DC corner sounds like the perfect balance of cinematic universe (because these aren't going away) and tight tonal reins.
Considering he already did Zodiac Riddler and body-horror Joker, I imagine these villain stories would lean be more horror/psychological thriller/crime noir tonally
Considering he already did Zodiac Riddler and body-horror Joker, I imagine these villain stories would lean be more horror/psychological thriller/crime noir tonally
It can work of it's building up to something* but each movie would need Batman in there somehow, even if it's just this ever present threat they have to avoid during their heists and capers.
But yea realistically this can go badly really easily.
*Like doing Knightfall from the villain's PoVs to fake out the audience and go "Surprise!" when it's super obvious some Knightfall shit is about to go down.
