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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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57 on 'Arrow' producer says DC's plans for Deathstroke have "changed"Collider recently sat down with Arrow showrunner, writer, and executive producer, Marc Guggenheim. In the past, DC has asked Arrow producers to kill off characters that they were planning to use in their movies. For example, Arrow was in the middle of building up their own Suicide Squad, before DC told them to stop because…
There is nothing I'd love more than for Ben Affleck to star in a Batman trilogy directed by Matt Reeves. But the fact is, Ben Affleck only has one more movie left on his contract after Justice League. Affleck is an incredibly busy guy with lots of talents and interests. He already has his next…
Yesterday an interview with director Matt Reeves surfaced where he said that The Batman would be a "standalone" movie that "isn’t part of the extended universe". As you could imagine, it left fans scratching their heads. Thankfully the social media savvy director has taken to Twitter today to clear up his comments. "Just to be clear:…
Update: The Hollywood Reporter has made a rare, but huge blunder. They've updated their story with the following correction: "An earlier version of this story stated that Matt Reeves' The Batman was part of Warner Bros.' new label and would star a new actor as Batman, but it is unclear where that project will fall."…
A couple of days before Comic-Con last month, The Batman director Matt Reeves was on "The Business" podcast hosted by The Hollywood Reporter's Kim Masters. Reeves spoke about his position on making the movie, and had an interesting comment about how it was pitched to him by Warner Bros. "When they approached me, what they…
BuzzFeed posted an excellent article today titled "Everything You Need To Know About Ben Affleck's Fate As Batman" which features a timeline from July 2015 when Affleck was rumored to be directing, writing, and starring in The Batman to just this week when his brother Casey Affleck made headlines for saying he didn't think he'd…
Ben Affleck's brother Casey was a guest today on WEEI's sports radio show. They talked about all kinds of topics, and at one point host Rich Keefe asked about the rumors of Ben Affleck not starring in The Batman. "I thought he was an okay Batman," Affleck joked. "No, he was great. He was great.…
Every so often a rumor gets so out of control that I need to write an article letting everyone know that it's not true. Over the past few days I've received hundreds of tweets and emails about a Ben Affleck Batman rumor that is 100% false. Last week a South African fansite claimed that Ben…
The last time we heard from Joe Manganiello he wasn't sure if he was still going to star in The Batman as Deathstroke. Since then, plans have become more clear. Now Manganiello knows what his future as Deathstroke looks like, but unfortunately he can't talk about it. Here's what Manganiello had to say about the matter in a…
Yesterday Ben Affleck took the stage at Comic-Con to tell fans how much he loves being Batman, a clear response to the report from last Friday that said his Batman future was in doubt. After Comic-Con, Entertainment Weekly caught up with Affleck, and he went into much more detail about his future as the Dark…
Yesterday a report from The Hollywood Reporter said that Ben Affleck's future as Batman was in doubt, and that Warner Bros. was trying to figure out how to handle his exit in a future DC movie. Today at Comic-Con, Affleck took the stage and let the world know how much he loves being Batman. "Let…
Ben Affleck may not be Batman for much longer. The Hollywood Reporter says that Warner Bros. is working on a way to "gracefully" address the fact that Affleck is no longer Batman in an upcoming DC Comics movie. The Batman director Matt Reeves recently said that he has an idea for a "series" of Batman…
In March there was a rumor that said The Batman script would be starting over from scratch, and now we have confirmation from director Matt Reeves. Reeves was a guest on MTV's Happy Sad Confused podcast and host Josh Horowitz asked if he was going to be working off of Ben Affleck and Geoff John's…
Matt Reeves has already expressed that Warner Bros. is "really excited" about his idea for The Batman, and in a new interview today with Uproxx he explained that he was given assurances that he could make the movie his way. Here's an excerpt from the interview: So the answer is yes, you did want assurances…
Matt Reeves is no stranger to trilogies, having directed two of the three rebooted Planet of the Apes movies. In a new interview with Fandango, Reeves was asked if he sees The Batman as the start of a possible trilogy. The short answer is "yes", but check out his full explanation in the quotes below.…
Last week The Batman director Matt Reeves said that the movie would be a “noir driven, detective version of Batman”, but it'll be an emotional one as well. “It’s my hope to tell a very emotional Batman story,” Reeves told Yahoo Movies while promoting War for the Planet of the Apes, “and I do see…
The Batman director Matt Reeves was a guest on Variety's "Playback" podcast this week, and he spoke about working with Warner Bros. and reiterated his idea for a noir driven, detective movie. As you may remember, Matt Reeves was close to finalizing a deal before actually backing out at one point. The two parties were…
Matt Reeves hasn't said much about The Batman during his War for the Planet of the Apes interviews, mostly because he hasn't started working on it yet. But in a new video interview with New Trailer Buzz, Reeves gave us the biggest clue yet as to what fans can expect from his Batman movie. "There's…
If you can remember, earlier this year there was a different rumor about Ben Affleck and The Batman just about every week. I take pride in only covering rumors from sources that have been reliable in the past, so I didn't write about a lot of those rumors here on Batman News. One rumor that…
Last month, Josh Gad posted a picture of The Penguin on Twitter without a caption. Last night, the Beauty and the Beast actor took his Penguin rumors to a whole new level! Gad posted a photo of himself inside the DC Comics offices posing with the DC Films presidents Geoff Johns and Jon Berg. Gad can be…
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