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‘The Batman’ director reveals whether Part 2 will be the end of the saga or if it will continue
Matt Reeves has spoken up about the possibility of continuing his vision of the Dark Knight after ‘The Batman Part 2′ releases.
‘The Batman’ premiered outside the now-extinct DCEU, and now it continues to be independent of the new DCU by James Gunn, which can confuse the general public, seeing different interpretations of the Dark Knight on the big screen framed in very different contexts. However, the new head of DC Studios, Gunn himself, already expressed his desire to have “Elseworlds” stories beyond its shared universe, giving as an example the stories of Matt Reeves or the ‘Joker’ movies by Todd Phillips. In this sense, Reeves revealed that his vision of the Gotham vigilante was always as a trilogy, so his intention is to close its cycle with a third delivery, even with a hypothetical premiere in the midst of the emergence of Gunn’s new DCU.
‘The Batman’ as a trilogy outside of James Gunn’s DCU
This is what the director expressed to Collider, ensuring that “Yes, that is still the plan”, after being asked about the possibility that ‘The Batman’ could be a film trilogy. “I mean, it’s sticking very closely to the path we envisioned”, adds the film director. Now, with the imminent premiere of ‘The Penguin’ on Max, Reeves sees his own vision of the Dark Knight reinforced:
“Things kind of shifted. So, when we came up with the idea to do The Penguin , that was something where I had always intended to continue Penguin’s story, and wanted to tell this story of his beginning of rise to power. Because we know that he’s introduced in The Batman as a kind of mid-level, sort of overlooked, mocked figure, who’s not yet in anyone’s eyes the kingpin we come to know him as in the lore.”
“And so, that was deliberate because I wanted— whereas it wasn’t Batman’s origin story, I wanted the origin stories of these other characters, of the Rogues Gallery and that story was originally going to be the entrée into the next movie,” concludes the filmmaker. Of course, it will still take us a while to see ‘The Batman Part 2′, since its premiere is not scheduled until October 2026; In what year would its hypothetical third part be released?
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