The Batman director Matt Reeves remains to be aiming for a trilogy, saying they’re “sticking very closely to the path we envisioned.”

From the start, it was anticipated that The Batman could be the primary a part of a brand new trilogy. However, nobody may have anticipated {that a} new DC Universe would take form within the months after the discharge of the primary film. We’re nonetheless awaiting the discharge of The Batman Part II, however director Matt Reeves confirmed to Collider that he nonetheless plans on finishing the trilogy.

“Yes, that is still the plan,” Reeves stated. “I mean, it’s sticking very closely to the path we envisioned.” The director admitted that some issues have shifted, most notably within the option to showcase Penguin’s (Colin Farrell) rise to energy in a TV sequence. “I had always intended to continue Penguin’s story, and wanted to tell this story of his beginning of rise to power. Because we know that he’s introduced in The Batman as a kind of mid-level, sort of overlooked, mocked figure, who’s not yet in anyone’s eyes the kingpin we come to know him as in the lore,” Reeves defined. “And so, 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, of the Rogues Gallery and that story was initially going to be the entrée into the following film.“

The Batman Part II co-writer Mattson Tomlin has stated the sequel will lastly begin capturing subsequent yr. It is at present slated for an October 2, 2026 launch.

Just final week, Reeves revealed that DC is tremendous excited concerning the sequel. “We’ve shared [the script] as we’ve been going along with DC, and they’re super excited,” Reeves stated. “It’s going to dig into the epic story about deeper corruption, and it goes into locations [Bruce Wayne] couldn’t even anticipate within the first one. The seeds of the place this goes are all within the first film & it expands in a method that may present you elements of the character you by no means acquired to see. Batman is consistently battling these forces. But these forces can’t be completely exorcised. So the following film delves deeper into that.“

As for The Penguin, the sequence will premiere on HBO subsequent week. Taking place after the occasions of The Batman, the sequence will discover Oswald Cobblepot making the most of the facility vacuum created by the demise of Carmine Falcone. In addition to Farrell, the sequence stars Cristin Milioti as Sofia Falcone, daughter of the late Carmine, Rhenzy Feliz as Victor Aguilar, Oswald’s driver, Michael Kelly as Johnny Vity, Falcone household underboss, and Clancy Brown as Salvatore Maroni, a rival gangster. Shohreh Aghdashloo, Deirdre O’Connell, James Madio, Scott Cohen, Michael Zegen, Carmen Ejogo, and Theo Rossi additionally star within the sequence. Our personal Alex Maidy referred to as the sequence “a masterpiece that will be the defining performance of Colin Farrel’s career.” Damn! You can try the remainder of his assessment proper right here.