If you’re a DC movie fan and love your rumours and news, it’s likely you’ve heard that James Gunn wants Matt Reeves’ Batman, played by Robert Pattinson, to make the leap into the DCEU, meaning that he would be in a world with Superman, Green Lantern and all the other heroes and villians.
The whole thing was stoked even more when just last weekend MAtt Reeves himself was asked about it and, while he didn’t confirm it, he didn’t rule it out either: “Sure, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, it really comes down to whether or not it makes sense.”
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However, now Andy Muschietti, the man tipped to direct the first official DCU Batman movie, Batman: The Brave and the Bold, has definitively said Pattinson will not be coming across to the new universe.
“As everyone knows, the Batman featured in The Brave and the Bold will belong to the new DC universe,” he says, “It’s quite obvious that Matt Reeves’ Batman is not part of this new universe. However, DC and Warner Bros. are moving forward with the second part of Reeves’ Batman series, which, as widely reported, is expected to release around 2027.
“This means the next Batman movie will take some time before it sees the light of day. Releasing two Batman films simultaneously would be counterproductive. What DC is doing is creating a strategy to ensure these two films don’t conflict with each other. Regarding my involvement in the project, there are good intentions for now. They want to do the movie with me, and I want to do it as well. I’m eager to work on the film.”
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There’s no denying that what he says makes complete sense and gets at the big concern for DC/Warners, which is having two different versions of Batman on the big screen around the same time with the fear being that audiences will be confused.
Honestly, I thought having Pattinson come over would be a good idea but the more I think about it, the less I like the idea. The DCU Batman needs to be more fantastical, he needs to be genius-level smart, the world’s greatest detective and, indeed, this was established in the finale of Creature Commandos when Dr Phosporus confirms he hasn’t been touched in fifteen years, meaning Batman, who put him in Belle Vue Prison, has been around at least fifteen years in the DCU. This would make him older and more experienced than Pattinson’s version.
Anyway, this would mean the DCU Batman will need to be in his early 40s by the time we meet him in the movies’ timeline.
Thoughts on who could play him? Let me hear them…
Watch the full interview here:
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