Matt Reeves

Mm-hmm.

does this movie make more sense if it is the Batman Reeves version of Gotham, the Penguin, all of these people trying to get out of these boroughs of Gotham and being dragged back in? Because it seemed like at the beginning, I'm like, oh, this seems more like a Matt Reeves movie.

And then by the middle, I'm like, oh, this seems more like a DC movie.

And that's the kind of thing, that's the grace that I gave the movie because I'm like, I don't want to put that on this movie when I start to watch it.

And bruh, I'm going to be real.

They're also not as good as they're made out to be.

I went to the Matt Reeves Batman.

I know y'all love it.

So 2028, the end of 2028 at the earliest, but let's be real, it's 2029 at best.

I still think that might be unlikely, because so much of that surely has to depend on the Matt Reeves film.

If the Batman 2 comes out, I don't see the post-merger studio wanting to be funding the production of a Batman Part 3 and a Batman Brave and the Bold to compete with each other in what could well be the same year of the box office.

So if that movie comes out and does really well, I think it'll be after 2029.

In fact, I don't think we'll ever see it, because I don't imagine James Gunn will still be there by that point.

Is there a copyright ownership reason why they can't just make

that? I believe it's Matt Reeves, because Matt Reeves is a producer on Clayface, so I think it's that Matt Reeves gets to be a producer on any DC Batman project, basically, which means that he has some amount

of pay.

but

i think you and i were early on that not to pat ourselves on the back too much i think you and i were both pretty vocal as saying there was zero chance that movie was ever going to get made and now it's been confirmed by the filmmaker himself Last time we did a News Dump episode, it was reported that the Batman Part 2 is going to be delayed again as Matt Reeves had to step away for personal reasons.

And then like 30 seconds after we hit upload, we got news that Steven Soderbergh is going to step in and help Matt Reeves finish principal photography.

Matt Reeves said he can't be on set.

He will be involved remotely.

Here's a quote from Matt Reeves.

Just to be clear, I'm not leaving the Batman part two.

I am profoundly grateful to Steven for coming to my aid during this challenging time to help me finish principal photography.

Hark! The Batman, released March 4th, 2022.

This was directed by Matt Reeves.

He is the one behind Cloverfield.

Let Me In, the English-language remake of Let the Right One In.

You know, Disney's golden boy.

He's done just most of Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars output of the past movies.

10 to 15 years i mean he's had a very long career in general but i mean specifically uh in that wheelhouse uh you know he's uh kind of known he hasn't done a like not too many outright horror movies he did work with matt reeves uh for uh let me in um but uh not a ton of outright horror but he is known for kind of doing these uh genre blockbusters if you will

Yeah, Michael Giacchino, I think his music in this is excellent.

Production has resumed on The Batman Part II.

It was delayed while director Matt Reeves dealt with a personal issue.

And Noah Wiley's been named People's Sexiest Man Alive.

The magazine says it didn't need a second opinion to give the two-time TV doctor the honor.

She was 84.

Production has resumed on The Batman Part II.

It was delayed while director Matt Reeves dealt with a personal issue.

And Noah Wiley's been named People's Sexiest Man Alive.

I'm like, okay, what does this mean for Batman? What does this mean for – will he ever – interact with Rob's Batman or is that they're still just making that like have they decided

yet yeah what I was kind of reading into it was like apparently cause Matt Reeves was a producer on this movie so cause he originally had a plan for like Clayface was gonna be not a spin off but like a part of the universe a part of Rob's universe Then but the whole James Gunn like DCU reboot thing got started so like they started going this whole new direction and They The writer or the creator for this, which is Mike Flanagan.

Shout out to Mike Flanagan.

He pitched the idea to James Gunn for DCU and they wanted it.

So I think...

the fact that Matt Reeves is a producer, maybe like he was kind of involved, like he had done some work prior to like what Clayface would look like in his universe.

So maybe they kind of like, okay, we'll bring him in and then he can give us feedback and kind of work it out that way.

But I, I don't think he's ever going to mess with Rob's Batman.

Because here's the thing, like, that's the number one complaint about superhero comics, and you're like, why doesn't the Justice League show up and, like, just kill the guy? Yeah.

well like actually they wouldn't do that so like I'm very reticent to ever give that critique but like because I worked on Batman for so long and again like I'm not smarter than Matt Reeves or any of these people who do this stuff they're amazing creators but like I just felt like once a thing in the city happens that is like affects, like, more than a couple hundred people, like, Batman kind of has to show up and, like, do something about it, you know? But that's my own little piccadilla.

I thought the show was great.

Kristen Milioti, she's amazing.

And it's probably the appearances part, right? Like it's one thing if you're going to do a Batman movie and you're the star, you've probably got some creative input or control, you know, you've, you've probably got a little more control, but it's like, all right, if they're going to toss you into, I don't know, whatever, like you're going to toss you into, you know, some other movie, like you're, you don't know what you're signing up for, you know?

And now that, you know, there's some personal stuff going on with Matt Reeves that they brought in.

Yeah.

Steve Soderbergh.

The Batman Part 2 is back on track.

In an interview with GameRadar, Robert Pattinson confirmed that director Steven Soderbergh is stepping up to help finish the film after director Matt Reeves had to step away earlier this month, citing a family matter.

The Batman Part 2 is expected to release in theaters on February 18th, 2028.

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