Issues are at all times occurring over with the DC motion pictures, notably as they pertain to Batman. Whereas The Penguin is lastly set to drop subsequent week, a longer-than-expected watch for The Batman Part II (due to Covid and labor strikes) has some of us feeling antsy that Matt Reeves received’t get to do all the things he’s apparently getting down to do.
However in keeping with Reeves himself, of us bought nothing to fret about. In a current interview with Collider, he assured that his Batman saga will get to play out in full, and it’s sticking “very intently to the trail we envisioned.” So far, the most important deviation got here within the type of The Penguin: he at all times knew he wished to proceed the longer term crime lord’s story and the “starting of his rise to energy.” However as a substitute of letting Oswald’s story be an “entree” into Half II, it grew into its personal factor, partially out of a need to not relegate Reeves’ plans only for theaters.
Reeves recalled how HBO’s chief content material officer Casey Bloys initially advised him they wished “one thing within the sequence that’s like one in every of these marquee characters, don’t horde, don’t save all the things only for the theatrical expertise.” He settled on Penguin since in that first movie, he seems “as a sort of mid-level, type of missed, mocked determine, who’s not but in anybody’s eyes the kingpin we come to know him as within the lore. That was deliberate as a result of I wished—whereas it wasn’t Batman’s origin story, I wished the origin tales of those different characters.”
What “different characters” may Reeves imply? He was tight-lipped, although a current roundtable coated by The Direct affords a tiny trace. Throughout that, producer Dylan Clark indicated one other spinoff was within the works, one seemingly completely different from the Arkham Asylum-set one shelved this previous July. One journalist reportedly requested if a authorized drama starring Harvey Dent was up for consideration, to which Reeves stated that query was “considering actually in the way in which that our conversations have gone.”
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