There may be much more to come from the world ofThe Batman. Over atTHR, a new report has just been published detailing some of the things that are happening behind the scenes at Warner Bros. Discovery in regard to upcoming comic book adaptations. On theBatmanfront, it was reported thatThe BatmanhelmerMatt Reeveshas been quietly working on new plans to expand the Batverse he began with the Robert Pattinson film.
Reportedly, Reeves has been meeting with various writers and directors with plans to develop more movie spinoffs related toThe Batman. While these projects are in the very early stages and plans could change, the idea is for these films to focus on supervillains in Batman’s Rogues Gallery, with names mentioned in the report including Scarecrow, Clayface, and Professor Pyg. If progress moves forward on some of all of these projects, these characters could possibly be introduced in the upcoming sequel toThe Batman.
The Batman 2is currently in the works from Reeves and co-writer Mattson Tomlin. Warner Bros. Pictures Group Co-Chairs Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy previously spoke about the company’s confidence in Reeves which would lend credence to these new rumblings of otherBatman-based projects to get greenlit with his involvement.
“Someone like Matt, we’ll buy for him whatever he wants to do,” De Luca said, viaDeadline. “We’re making an investment for whatever Matt feels a pull toward,in the Batman universeand otherwise. He has an open invitation to go wherever his interests take him. We’ll lean into whatever Matt wants to do. In terms of the writer/directors out there working in this very elevated genre space, with everything Matt’s done, fromLet Me Into theApestrilogy toThe Batman, he’s in a class by himself.”
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Colin Farrell’s Penguin Gets His Own Spinoff Series
What we know for sure is that the Penguin we met inThe Batmanwill be the first of the Dark Knight’s enemies to get a spinoff. It will be in the form of a TV series at HBO Max. Just recently, Farrell spoke withExtra TVabout how excited he was to get started. He also revealed that it begins very shortly after the events ofThe Batmanwith Oz’s feet “splashing through the water in Falcone’s office.”
“I felt like I didn’t have enough, I wanted to do it more and more and more,” Farrell said of his limited screentime inThe Batman, teasing a quality series that’s to come from writer-showrunner Lauren LeFranc with oversight from Reeves. “He’s so obsessive about what he does, but he’s all over [HBO Max’s]The Penguin[series] as well. I mean, he’s not gonna direct it but he’s all over the structure of the scripts and who’s gonna direct them. And so,it’s exciting.”
The Penguinwill arrive onHBO Maxin 2023. As forThe Batman 2, the sequel does not yet have an official release date.
