Issues are at all times occurring over with the DC films, notably as they pertain to Batman. Whereas The Penguin is lastly set to drop subsequent week, a longer-than-expected watch for The Batman Half II (because of Covid and labor strikes) has some of us feeling antsy that Matt Reeves gained’t get to do every thing he’s apparently getting down to do.

However in response to Reeves himself, of us received nothing to fret about. In a current interview with Collider, he assured that his Batman saga will get to play out in full, and it’s sticking “very intently to the trail we envisioned.” Up to now, the largest deviation got here within the type of The Penguin: he at all times knew he wished to proceed the longer term crime lord’s story and the “starting of his rise to energy.” However as a substitute of letting Oswald’s story be an “entree” into Half II, it grew into its personal factor, partially out of a want to not relegate Reeves’ plans only for theaters.

Reeves recalled how HBO’s chief content material officer Casey Bloys initially instructed him they wished “one thing within the collection that’s like certainly one of these marquee characters, don’t horde, don’t save every thing only for the theatrical expertise.” He settled on Penguin since in that first movie, he seems “as a sort of mid-level, type of neglected, mocked determine, who’s not but in anybody’s eyes the kingpin we come to know him as within the lore. That was deliberate as a result of I wished—whereas it wasn’t Batman’s origin story, I wished the origin tales of those different characters.”

What “different characters” may Reeves imply? He was tight-lipped, although a current roundtable lined by The Direct presents a tiny trace. Throughout that, producer Dylan Clark indicated one other spinoff was within the works, one seemingly totally different from the Arkham Asylum-set one shelved this previous July. One journalist reportedly requested if a authorized drama starring Harvey Dent was up for consideration, to which Reeves mentioned that query was “pondering actually in the best way that our conversations have gone.”

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