Matt Reeves
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Writer/director Matt Reeves may have had to postpone filming of The Batman due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but he’s still firmly set on the story he had for the film for the past two years.
“It took me two years to work on that story, and it’s a very specific mystery noir that’s been really thought-out by me and my partners,” Reeves told Deadline.
According to Reeves, one-fourth of The Batman has been shot and he’s used this hiatus to begin “pouring through dailies, looking at takes, and what’s to come.”
Although the story remains the same, Reeves said this unplanned time for reflection has allowed him to reconsider “the tone of things.”
“It happens any time you shoot anything. The unexpected – happy accidents and things you didn’t quite expect: That is the lightning in a bottle for something that is alive,” said the writer/director. “I would say that the changes really have to do with ‘Oh, seeing the tone of this’ with these scenes we haven’t done which connect to that part of the storyline. It feels like there might be an opportunity to explore some of that unexpected tone that we found.”
“With these movies, you never have enough prep time, because they’re so complex and so enormous in so many ways,” Reeves continued. “It also gives me a moment to think about the larger sequences that have yet to come up and how I want to realize those.”
According to Deadline, back in 2018 Reeves told the site that the film would be “noir-driven, in which Batman is investigating a particular case that takes us out into the world of Gotham.”
Reeves’ The Batman stars Robert Pattinson as Bruce Wayne/Batman, joined by Zoë Kravitz (Catwoman), Paul Dano (The Riddler), Jeffrey Wright (James Gordon), John Turturro (Carmine Falcone), Peter Sarsgaard (Gil Colson), Jayme Lawson (Bella Real), Andy Serkis (Alfred Pennyworth), and Colin Farrell (The Penguin).
The film is scheduled to hit theaters June 25, 2021.