The Batman’s Matt Reeves on Whether Superman Could Appear in a Sequel

With The Batman opening in movie theaters on March 4, I recently had the chance to speak with director Matt Reeves about making his hugely anticipated DC movie. Since I’d already been part of a press conference with Reeves and Robert Pattinson that covered so many subjects including why they didn’t want to do another origin story, their thoughts on Death in the Family, the trouble with emoting in Batman’s cowl, why Riddler as the first villain, how Pattinson found Batman’s voice, and their thoughts on Mr. Freeze, I used my time to pose questions he hadn’t been asked. One of the things Reeves has said many times is that he wanted to make a Batman movie that kept everything as grounded and realistic as possible and offered a take on the character fans haven’t seen before. When you see the movie next week, you’ll see he accomplished his goal, and fans will get a film unlike any previous Batman movie. But something I wondered while watching Reeves take on the Caped Crusader was if other DC superheroes — like Superman — existed in this version of Batman. In this grounded and realistic take, is there room for a Kryptonian? So when I spoke to Reeves the other day, I asked if Superman and other DC superheroes existed in his version of Batman, or if this was a separate world without superhuman characters. He told me: “It's a high wire act to do a Batman movie, right? Because the character's been around for 80 years, everyone has their own version in their head and there have been great movies. The last thing I wanted to do was come in there and feel like I had to do something with the highest degree of difficulty and then also find the ways that it connects to everything else. My thing was, from the beginning, I said, "Look, I think it's enough to try and just do a bat verse, to do a Batman movie," and that that's where this begins. I suppose it's not impossible to believe that somewhere down the line, they could connect to something else, but that was not my interest in this, and it's not my interest in what we would do in follow-ups at the moment either. I feel like the whole point in us working with this incredible cast and this incredible crew to realize this movie that sort of, I really believe, is a fresh and different version of these characters is to pursue every ... There are a lot of great characters in the Gotham world and so the idea of leaning into that, that's really my interest right now.” I followed up by saying I don’t need to see Superman in a sequel, I just wanted to know if he existed in this Batman world. Reeves replied: For the full story head over to Collider: https://collider.com/the-batman-2-seq... #TheBatman #TheBatman2 #MattReeves FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL   / collider     / collider     / collider