Deadline recently caught up with The Batman director Matt Reeves as he remains in London waiting for production to resume on his highly anticipated DC Comics adaptation. During that interview, he offered an update on exactly how much work has been completed on the film thus far.
"We’re not officially editing right now," he confirmed. "We’ve actually shot a quarter of the movie and I have been pouring through dailies, looking at takes, and what’s to come."
Shooting was expected to move from London to Liverpool before the UK was put on lockdown, but Reeves believes that when work does resume, it will be in the UK. Asked by the trade whether his movie pays homage to Frank Miller's Batman: Year One or the Flying Graysons, he understandably responded with a laugh, and stated: "I can’t give you the answers to any of that."
While Reeves is looking through those dailies, he confirmed that he has no plans to make any major changes to The Batman. "It took me two years to work on that story, and it’s a very specific mystery noir that’s been really thought-out by me and my partners."
One thing he is reconsidering is, "the tone of things. It happens any time you shoot anything. The unexpected — happy accidents and things you didn’t quite expect: That is the lightning in a bottle for something that is alive. I would say that the changes really have to do with ‘Oh, seeing the tone of this’ with these scenes we haven’t done which connect to that part of the storyline."
"It feels like there might be an opportunity to explore some of that unexpected tone that we found," the filmmaker continued. "With these movies, you never have enough prep time, because they’re so complex and so enormous in so many ways. It also gives me a moment to think about the larger sequences that have yet to come up and how I want to realize those."
The Batman is clearly in safe hands with Reeves at the helm, and the movie will hopefully still arrive in theaters next June as planned. However, with lockdown measures in the UK not looking likely to lift any time soon, some sort of delay could, unfortunately, be an inevitability.
We'll be sure to keep you guys updated as we learn more!