Matt Reeves teases just a few plot particulars for The Batman Part II, including that DC has seen the script and is “super excited.”

Fans have been anxiously awaiting the discharge of The Batman Part II, however the mission has been somewhat gradual to start out as director Matt Reeves needs to get it precisely proper. While talking with SFX Magazine (by way of ComicBookMovie), Reeves dropped just a few slight but tantalizing tidbits in regards to the upcoming 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 places [Bruce Wayne] couldn’t even anticipate in the first one. The seeds of where this goes are all in the first movie & it expands in a way that will show you aspects of the character you never got to see. Batman is constantly battling these forces. But those forces can’t be entirely exorcised. So the next movie delves deeper into that.” Corruption. Mystery. Batman. I prefer it. The director additionally confirmed that “Colin [Farrell] will be part of the movie” because the Penguin.

While the Batman comics (and a few of the motion pictures) do embrace loads of fantastical characters, Reeves is ready on retaining his model of Gotham City extra real looking. “What was important to me was to find a way to take these pop icons, these mythic characters that everybody knows, and translate it so that Gotham feels like a place in our world,” Reeves defined. “We would possibly push to the sting of fantastical, however we might by no means go into full fantastical. It’s meant to really feel fairly grounded.“

That stated, this doesn’t imply we gained’t see a few of the extra iconic Batman characters, they’ll simply be seen via the extra grounded lens of Reeves’ story. “It doesn’t mean that you won’t see characters that people love. That’s exactly what we want to do,” Reeves stated. “Gentleman Ghost might be pushed a bit too far for us to have the ability to discover a technique to do, however there’s a enjoyable method to consider how we might take characters which may push over right into a little bit of the fantastical and discover a technique to make sense of that.“

As a giant fan of the primary film, I’m desirous to see the place Matt Reeves takes us with The Batman Part II, however we’re nonetheless a methods off from the mission hitting our screens. Co-writer Mattson Tomlin informed ScreenRant final month that the sequel would lastly begin taking pictures subsequent yr. The Batman Part II is presently slated for an October 2, 2026 launch.