The Batman is one of 2021's most highly anticipated movies (assuming it still arrives next year as planned), and with War for the Planet of the Apes director Matt Reeves at the helm, we know the DC Comics adaptation is in safe hands.
During a recent interview with The New York Times, the filmmaker was asked whether he's able to put his own spin on such an iconic property, and confirmed that while he does have to live up to certain expectations, he has a very specific vision which Warner Bros. is fully behind.
"Of course these things have to be mined in a way that can make these companies money. You never know whether the people in charge of those I.P.s are going to be open to your vision," he explains. "But if they weren’t, I wouldn’t have done 'Batman.' I was like, look, there have been some great 'Batman' films and I don’t want to just make a 'Batman' film."
"I want to do something that has some emotional stakes," Reeves continues. "My ambition is for it to be incredibly personal using the metaphors of that world. It feels like this really odd throwback to the movies I came up on from the ’70s, like 'Klute' or 'Chinatown.' I’m not saying we’re achieving anything like that. Those are masterpieces. But that’s the ambition."
There's a lot here for film fans to be excited about, and it sounds like this will be more than just another origin story for the Caped Crusader. In fact, it may be the most personal take on Bruce Wayne we've seen to date, and that's definitely something to be intrigued by in this "Year Two" story.
Are you guys excited to see Reeves' take on the Dark Knight?