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The Batman is directed and co-written by Matt Reeves and will star Robert Pattinson as Bruce Wayne/Batman, Zoe Kravitz as Selina Kyle/Catwoman, Paul Dano as Edward Nashton/Riddler, Colin Farrell as Oswald Cobblepot/The Penguin, Jeffrey Wright as James Gordon, John Turturro as Carmine Falcone, and Andy Serkis as Alfred Pennyworth.
The Batman is scheduled to hit theaters on March 4, 2022.
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118 on Rumor: Matt Reeves Batman Film Still Years AwayAccording to a new rumor, Matt Reeves Batman film - still known as The Batman - won't hit theaters until 2020 at the earliest, but 2021 seems more likely. Revenge of the Fans is reporting that Matt Reeves is hoping to start filming his Batman film in either the Spring or Summer of 2019. From…
Earlier this month, The Batman director Matt Reeves turned in his first draft of the script. It's been a couple of weeks, and The Wrap reporter Umberto Gonzalez has an update. According to Gonzalez, Warner Bros. "loves" the script that Reeves has turned in for The Batman. He is still tweaking it a bit, but…
Way back in 2013 when we learned that Batman v Superman would include an older Batman, Jon Hamm was at the top of a lot of fans wish lists. Now, five years later, he's being asked if he'd be interested in playing Batman... and his answer is yes! For Hamm, playing Batman would just depend…
In August, The Batman writer and director Matt Reeves said that he'd be turning in the first draft of the script soon. Then we heard it wouldn't be until after Labor Day on September 3rd, and now The Wrap's Umberto Gonzalez is reporting that Reeves did indeed turn in his script this month. With the…
With The Batman on track to start shooting by next summer, casting news is going to be coming in fast. We know that director Matt Reeves has been meeting with actors to play Batman, and today's rumor is very interesting. According to Revenge of The Fans, Warner Bros. is (or was?) interested in Game of Thrones…
The Batman director Matt Reeves wanted to let everyone know that he has bats on the brain! Earlier this year, an Adam West Batman exhibit opened at The Hollywood Museum in Hollywood, California. Yesterday they had a special panel, and it appears that Reeves attended because he just shared a bunch of photos on Twitter…
Jay Oliva has been a storyboard artist on most of the DCEU movies, and he was working on The Batman when Ben Affleck was still attached to direct, write, and star in it. Today on Twitter, Oliva commented on Affleck's Batman script, calling it the best one he's ever read. "The original Affleck script was…
Last week Ben Affleck checked into a live-in rehab facility to deal with his alcohol addiction. There was speculation that this could be the end of his time as Batman from a health/personal level, but now experts have weighed in about financial reasons as well. “More than likely the studio will replace him because the…
With Matt Reeves set to turn in his first draft of the script for The Batman next month and filming starting by the middle of next year, the cast and crew will be coming together shortly. We heard that Reeves met with actors like Jake Gyllenhaal about playing Batman last year, and now Geeks WorldWide…
There were rumors this week that The Batman was heading into preproduction, but things aren't that far along yet according to The Wrap reporter Umberto Gonzalez. Gonzalez says he got an update on The Batman and the script won't even be turned in until after Labor Day, which is a holiday in the US that…
The Batman director Matt Reeves was at a Television Critics Association event today to promote his Fox drama, The Passage. At the event, Reeves gave many exciting updates about The Batman, which he's currently writing right now. /Film was in attendance and provided many quotes from Reeves from the event today. “We are working on…
The last big news we heard about The Batman was that director Matt Reeves met with Jake Gyllenhaal to play the Dark Knight. Ultimately he passed and decided to move on to Spider-Man: Far From Home, but a new rumor gives us another name that Reeves met with as well as new details about the…
Yesterday the roster for Margot Robbie's Birds of Prey was revealed. Additionally, we learned that the villain would be a Batman villain that hasn't been in a movie before. Now according to new details, we know which Batman villain almost made it in. The Wrap reporter Umberto Gonzalez, who broke the Birds of Prey news…
Earlier this month we learned that The Batman writer/director Matt Reeves turned in part of his script to Warner Bros. at the end of May. If today's new rumor turns out to be true, things may be heading in the right direction to finally get this movie in front of cameras. According to Batman on…
Last year we learned about a new brand of DC movies that Warner Bros. was working on. These would be separate from the DCEU and are rumored to be under the label "DC Dark" or "DC Black". A Joker movie starring Joaquin Phoenix will be the first movie under that new brand to go into…
The Hollywood Reporter published a big article today about newly appointed head of DC Films at Warner Bros., Walter Hamada. Their sources says that Hamada "walked into a shitshow, and he's trying to clean it up." He's spent his first fix months in his new role going over all of the projects that have been…
We haven't heard much about The Batman since director Matt Reeves said he finished the story and was beginning the script late last year. But today, we have an exciting update... a possible villain! According to Variety reporter Justin Kroll, The Penguin could be the villain in The Batman. He adds that if for whatever…
Andy Serkis is best known for his performance capture roles and has worked closely with The Batman director Matt Reeves on his Planet of the Apes movies. The two have become very close friends over the years, so it's no surprise that Serkis would want to work with Reeves again on his Batman movie. Serkis…
This week we had another source strongly hint that Flashpoint is dead. Game Night directors John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, who officially joined the movie in March, will likely turn it back into a solo Flash movie. While many fans are happy to hear that, there is one major downside for Batfleck fans... Ben…
The Batman director Matt Reeves is pretty active on social media, and he took some time last night to answer some fan questions. When asked what his favorite Batman comic was, Reeves couldn't pick just one. "There are many... I love Year One, The Long Halloween, Dark Victory, Ego... Many others... Neal Adams is awesome...…
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