The Batman wrapped with a riddle, a post-credits scene that wasn’t actually a scene scene however slightly a cypher: the phrases “good bye” within the Riddler’s inexperienced textual content (one thing just like the Matrix’s coding console meets a QAnon message). Since then, a complete web site—www.rataalada.com—has teased extra puzzles and even a continuation of the Riddler’s plans. A picture posted to the positioning earlier this month contained a cypher, which when decoded learn, “You suppose I’m completed however maybe you don’t know the total reality. Each ending is a brand new starting. One thing is coming.”
That certain appears like a sequel to us.
The Batman, Matt Reeves’ neo-noir adaptation of the DC comedian character, forwent the normal first movie origin story—Bruce’s mother and father die, Bruce overcomes his worry and adopts the picture of a bat, Bruce faces his first actual villain, and so on. As an alternative, Reeves imagined a extra skilled Batman (in his second yr of caped crusading), which permits the story to shake off cumbersome opening acts: Batman’s bildungsroman is changed by a extra mature character stage.
Chatting with the Glad Unhappy Confused podcast, Reeves defined the reasoning.
“I do not need that character to turn out to be a cypher. I do not need to be like, ‘Okay, so we noticed it wasn’t an origin story, however you understand what, that was sort of origins and now he is simply excellent.’”
Reeves needs a mature, however imperfect Batman. He needs to take Batman to a extra advanced character airplane. And opening a movie franchise with Wayne as a child requires an excessive amount of backpedaling. It appears Reeves has a transparent future arc for his Batman, which implies a plan for future movies.
“It’s good to check the character time and again and once more,” he mentioned. “And for me, yeah, there may be one thing in that. I do not know. There is a deep-dive that already occurred at first and now I am gonna should deep-dive once more if we now have the prospect to make one other one and so we will see.”
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When Is The Batman 2 Coming Out?
Whereas Warner Bros hasn’t but confirmed The Batman 2—like, c’mon, what are they ready for, have they seen the projected $700 million payout?—we are able to anticipate future movies. We simply might have to attend a beat.
“Right here’s the factor, I’ve lots of concepts about what I need to do,” Reeves mentioned on the podcast. “I am undecided what the following story is. For me, no matter that story’s going to be, it’s going to be to take these characters—and particularly Batman’s character—and put them in some sort of emotional jeopardy… There’d should be emotional stakes to get drawn into that character’s story.”
Within the meantime, Reeves is already increasing his Batman universe into tv, with plans for an HBO Max sequence based mostly on Colin Farrell’s Penguin, in addition to a possible sequence on both the Gotham Police Division or Arkham Asylum.
What Will The Batman 2 Be About?
It’s anybody’s guess, though some critics are motioning towards a possible Robin inclusion. (Reeves’ response to this: “Perhaps. We’ll simply say possibly. I don’t know, I don’t know.”)
Nonetheless in play are a number of characters, together with Selena (Zoë Kravitz), Penguin (Colin Farrell), Riddler (Paul Dano), and even a Joker (Barry Keoghan).
So let’s simply say there’s potential.
