The director insisted on staying true to the character inside his own world first.
, which was stipulated by design in order for Matt Reeves to sign onto the film. Robert Pattinson’s masked crusader is centered in his sophomore year of crime fighting and encountering figures that will begin to fill out his Rogues’ Gallery., Matt Reeves revealed that Warner Bros courted him while he thought he was the wrong person for the job.
Despite his initial reluctance, Reeves eventually met with WB and then-current Batman actor Ben Affleck to explore if he aligned with what they were trying to achieve. “At that point, obviously, Ben Affleck was still doing the movie, and there was an iteration of it ... I could see why they wanted to do it, but obviously it did connect to the broader world, to the broader DCEU. It was very action-oriented ... it was like a James Bond kind of thing.
And while that film would have made sense for the space Affleck’s take occupied in the DCEU at the time, it wasn’t what Reeves had in mind. He explained, “I thought the meeting would be very short because I thought I would meet with them and say ... ‘I can totally see why you would do this, but this isn’t the way that I would do it. I have to find some way in that feels personal to me or I wouldn’t know how to make it for you.
As time went on and plans began to change with the ever-evolving DC slate of films, Reeves found himself in ongoing conversations with WB about what he would do with his take on Batman.
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