There are some new updates surrounding Matt Reeves The Batman 2, which includes the title
of the film, the release date and a brief description on what the filmmaker has described
his set of projects on the caped crusader as.
And this news was shared amongst the big DCU film slate by James Gunn and Peter Safran
that I'm going be discussing and giving my thoughts towards
in this video.
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But without further a do, lets dive into the news surrounding The Batman 2 and the revealed
slate for the DCU's Chapter 1.
So we knew that Robert Pattinson’s Batman was returning in a sequel which is currently
half way through it's writting stages, and with the big DCU reveal yesterday, they confirmed
multiple factors for the second Batman film.
One of them was one that was already suspected and that is that Matt Reeves Batman universe
would take place outside of the main DCU as an elseworlds
project, with that of Todd Phillips Joker sequel, Joker Folie A Deux and a black Superman
movie, produced by J.J.
Abrams and written by Ta-Nehisi Coates.
But the other factors confirmed involved the title of the film and the new
release date which goes in line with my earlier predictions that the Batman sequel would be
releasing in 2025.
Matt Reeves sequel's official title is “The Batman Part II” and it will
open in theaters on October the 3rd 2025.
There wasn't a plot synopsis for the film, but based on previous interviews and details
released, The Batman Part 2 will continue to focus on Batman's
psychology, even with many Rogues gallery memebers involved.
It will also include a conflict between Catwoman and the dark knight and it
will further show Colin Farrell's Penguin as the kingpin of Gotham's underworld, following
his HBO spin-Off series, which is currently in production.
James Gunn and Peter Safran confirmed The Batman Part 2 release date during a press
event on the Warner Bros lot on Monday and said that the film will remain as a standalone
property and fall under that newly branded DC
Elseworlds category.
So Robert Pattinson and Matt Reeves will continue to explore their world of Batman in the “DC
Elseworlds” sidebar, while DC Studios head James Gunn and Peter Safran
will have a new Batman in their DC Universe, which I'll go into a bit more very soon.
We also heard earlier this month that Reeves was going to be having a meeting with James
Gunn to ensure that his BatVerse and the larger DC
Universe would be able to support each other and not crash together in terms of the storytelling.
And it looks like that meeting has already happened.
James Gunn said in an interview shared on collider yesterday, "Matt is working on the
sequel, which he thinks of as a Batman Crime Saga, which also includes The Penguin series,
and it is its own thing.
He's hard at work on that.
He came in and pitched us some amazing, really cool stuff the other day.
So our plan is for that to continue."
Matt Reeves himself tweeted on the Crime Saga mention showing
his excitement and he also tweeted those three bat symbol emojis that he's been tweeting
over the award season as The Batman continues to pick up
nominations.
So is he refrencing a trilogy of Bat movies in an epic crime saga or is it a reference
to maybe more films that he's planning for this Batman world.
However many films we do get, I think this is only great news and the
fact that Reeves sees this as an epic crime saga and has already shared his extended plans
with DC, suggests to me that the roadmap for this
version of Gotham has been thought out really well.
Of course, the spinoffs are going to be happening too, so it's not just the main movies to look
forward to with Matt Reeves projects at DC.
But overall, I couldn't be more happy that we've finally got a title for the film, which
kinda reminds me of The Godfather trilogy, a release date and a description of Reeves
Batman universe beeing an epic crime saga, because
it just shows that the ambition for this seperated Batman world is through the roof.
I didn't expect to hear any news on The Batman 2 yesterday,
but alongside what we did get, I'm sure we'll be getting much more in the years ahead too,
and hopefully the Penguin spin-off series can lead into that Batman sequel in a great
way.
Alongside the updates on Matt Reeves The Batman world, we also got the big DCU film slate,
which confirmed 10 upcoming projects from James Gunn and Peter Safran's movie universe.
It's going to be a supposedly cohesive eight-to-ten-year
plan that involves Gunn, Safran and their team of writers, Drew Goddard, Jeremy Slater,
Christina Hobson, Christal Henry, and comics writer Tom King.
The slate of DC films and television has been officially titled as “Chapter 1: Gods and
Monsters”, and the reveal came with James Gunn's video on social media, addressing
the future of the DC Universe.
Before I get into the slate, he did clarify some details on the current slate of DC films
in 2023, as we're expecting to see projects like Shazam: Fury of
the Gods, The Flash, Blue Beetle, and, finally, Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, before we reach
that new slate.
Gunn said that these films would essentially lead the DCEU into the new DC
Universe, with the Flash film being the hard reset on the whole thing.
He also said that Gal Gadot, Jason Momoa, Ezra Miller, and Zachary Levi may have the
opportunity to continue playing their respective heroes, so there's still
no certain clarification surrounding the casting of particular characters and it only adds
to the confusion surrounding the previous announcement
that Henry Cavill will not return as Superman.
But anyway, Gunn said that after the release of Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, the DC Universe
will kick into its first official chapter, and
that will begin with 2 TV projects that are consided to be preludes to the first big screen
movies.
These include the animated series Creature Commandos and the spin-off show Waller, based
on Viola Davis's Amanda Waller from the Suicide Squad.
So after these films and shows, the big slate of projects from the DCU Chapter One: Gods
and Monsters will commence, and the following films and tv series are just one
part of that first chapter, and not the whole slate.
Starting with the movies, we got 5 announced projects and the one that marks the true beginning
of the DCU is none other than a new Superman movie.
Of course, Gunn has been prioritising Superman, and he's currently writting the
script for the announced film, which is now titled as Superman Legacy.
It also has an official release date of July 11th 2025, meaning that it'll
release in the same year as Matt Reeves The Batman Part 2.
Gunn said that it'll focus on Superman balancing his Kryptonian heritage with his human upbringing,
which to be honest reminds me of Man Of Steel just from that brief description.
Some of you know that I love Man Of Steel and it was gutting that Henry Cavill didn't
get another swing at playing the role in a new
Superman movie, but at the same time, I understand that a role isn't tied down to one particular
actor.
By the looks of it, gunn is focusing on building this universe with a new actor
playing the role.
It's just exciting that we finally get to see a new Superman movie, and I just hope
that along with whoever ends up directing this project, that James Gunn can forge a
great script for the movie we eventually get.
I expect that it's going to be a brighter film and more in line with Superman of the
past, and while we can debate on what tone it will be, I
don't care whether it's brighter or darker with the story's tone, I just hope that it's
a quality made film with a great director and cast.
As of yet, we haven't heard anything about the
villain or the threat to superman in that film, but I guess that it would be someone
different or unexpected.
Still, It's probabaly one of the projects I'm most excited about, and like the
rest of the announced DCU films and shows, I just hope we get to see different directorial
voices and unique filmmaking in each of them.
Alongside Superman Legacy, there was also the
announcement that there would be a film based on Tom King’s 2022 comic run of Supergirl:
Woman Of Tomorrow, and that this film will feature a “more hard-core” Kara Zor-El,
who we know as Superman’s cousin.
While Superman is raised on Earth, Kara spends 14 years of her life on a violent rock of
Krypton, and it looks like we're going to be getting an exciting version of that
story, which James Gunn described as a “science-fiction epic.”
So with both Superman and Supergirl getting new movies, the question now turns to, well
what about the DCU Batman.
Well after already discussing that Matt Reeves Batman verse will be
completely seperate, you'd think that the DCU Batman would be introduced in a very different
way and focused on a different take of the character.
And it seems like Gunn and Safran are doing just that.
They announced that a film titled The Brave and the Bold would be coming, which is based
on comic writer Grant Morrison’s run, introducing another Bruce Wayne and his son
Damian Wayne as Robin, who Bruce had no idea existed for nearly ten years of his life.
Gunn said that “It will be a very strange father-and-son story.
With Superman Legacy this is probabaly my most anticipated DCU film, and
what I like about it is that the Batman in this new DCU is going to be very different
from the one we've seen in Reeves Batman.
I think this is the perfect way to do it, because focusing
the Bat Family in the DCU allows for a very distinct take and one that is about the collective
rather than Batman himself.
And that's what I love so much about Matt Reeves films, because they
are successfully tackling Batman as a solo character and how the world and villains around
him impact his pschology.
So now that we get to view Batman through the bat family in James
Gunn's DCU, it presents the opportunity for a successful distinct take on the character
all at the same time.
I think it also partially indicates that we might not get the Batfamily
in Matt Reeves films, which to be honest, I know people wanted to see that, but I personally
think that focussing on Batman is much more effective for that epic crime sage approach.
But regardless, if you wann robin, more of the Bat family and other characters too, the
DCU batman is going to exist as well.
Alongside The Brave and The Bold though, there are two other
feature films that were announced, and these are ones that I'm cautiously optimistic for.
One is The Authority, which will bring in characters from Wildstorm, a comics imprint
folded into DC comics in 1999.
It's apparently a passion project of James Gunn, and the film will revolve around a team
of heroes who think the world is broken and they want to fix it by
any means necessary.
I've never read it but it does sound and look exciting, plus if it's another passion project
from Gunn, than hopefully it'll be a great film when it eventually releases.
And the last DCU film that was announced was a Swamp Thing movie, which Gunn and Safran
describe as a very dark horror story surrounding the
origins of Swamp Thing.
Something to note, is that in the last few hours James Mangold, the director of Logan,
has posted a panel of Swamp Thing and that does get me excited, because if
someone like Mangold does the film, then I will be completely on board.
It might just be him celebrating the fact that we're getting a Swamp Thing movie, but
I can only hope that a director like him is on board to direct.
So overall, what do I think about the announced movies on this DCU slate.
Well, I honestly don't mind what projects are announceed, whether they're
ones we wanted or wackier and insane ones, but what I care about the most is who directs
and makes these films.
Gunn made it a big point in his reveal video and it was something that made
me have more trust in what he's going to do with this slate.
He said in the video that while this whole universe is connected across film, tv and
video games, they're allowing the individual voices and filmmakers to really
make what they want to within that structure.
And that does excite me, because to be honest, I was worried that this new DC universe, would
basically be the MCU with DC comics, in that most of the films feel very similar in the
sense of what we get from the filmmaking.
That's been my main issue with a lot of the recent MCU
stuff when it comes to the writing and the filmmaking itself.
But if Gunn is really focussing on directors, giving them the chance to make their unique
films, and use their forms of filmmaking techniques, that is a good thing
to hear.
Also, if we're gonna get directors like James Mangold invovled then hell, I'm up to seeing
what they produce.
So yes, from the film side of this slate, I'm cautiously optimistic
to see what they produce and hopefully we get a good start to the new DCU.
There we're also some TV show announcements, and like with the film side of things, we
got 5 confirmed series.
First is Creature Commandos, an animated series written by Gunn, which is
currently in production.
There is no voice cast attached yet, but Gunn made a point to say that they will cast actors
who can voice the characters and play live-action portrayals when they
cross over to different projects.
Another TV series is Waller, which is positioned as a spinoff to James Gunn’s HBO Max series
Peacemaker, in which Amanda Waller is now the main character.
There's no release date, but Gunn did confirm that the show will be lead by Christal Henry
from Watchmen and Jeremy Carver, the creator of Doom Patrol.
The third show announced was what I expected to be a theatrical film, and that
is a Green Lantern show starring Finn Wittrock.
The show is titled Lanterns, and is about two members of the Green Lanterns corps in
Hal Jordan and John Stewart.
Both Safran and Gunn said that the show is one of their most important projects, calling
it “very much in the vein of True Detective,” as Jordan and Stewart investigate a
mystery that ties into the DCU’s main story.
Then there's the 4th series on Booster Gold, which will feature an obscure character from
DC comics, about a loser from the future who uses
basic future technology to come back to today and pretend to be a superhero.”
That to me sounds interesting and very James Gunn in a weird way, so hopefully it'll be
another wacky project from the filmmaker that get's more people
talking the closer we get to it releasing.
And the final show announced for the new DCU slate, is a Wonder Woman spin-off entitled
Paradise Lost.
It's currently unclear whether this is connected to Patty Jenkins and Gal Godot's Wonder Woman,
but we did get a brief description on what this series would be focussing on.
Gunn and Safran are calling this a Game of Thrones–inspired
series set on Themyscira, dealing with the origins of Themyscira and the political power
players on the island.
Maybe we will see Gal Gadot and Robin Wright return for this show
and maybe they will be linked into the future DCU, but right now it's quite unclear surrounding
how Wonder Woman will be integrated.
So as a whole, the tv shows do sound quite interestning,
and I think the ones that I'm looking forward too the most is probably Booster Gold and
Green Lanterns.
I guess we have to wait until we get more details on them, which I'm sure Gunn
will share, alongside the additional projects that are yet to be revealed for chapter 1.
Like I said before, he did say that this was just the
start of this first chapter, so it's looks like we're going to be getting much more then
we expected, including on that of the video game side of things too.
While I'm personally more interested in the elseworlds projects like
The Batman 2 and the Joker sequel, when we do eventually see the first projects from
the DCU in 2025, I hope that it will kick off this universe
in a great way and get us excited to see the long form storytelling that James Gunn and
Peter Safran introduce.
We'll have to see, but it definitely a positive plan for the future with
much more to be revealed on the way.
But that was my video discussing the first reveals from the DCU slate and the updates
on The Batman sequel.
Overall, I'm fascinated to see how Matt Reeves will turn his Batman universe
into an epic crime saga, and the differences that come between both his take on Batman
and the Bat family we see in the DCU.
Again, I am more excited for the elseworlds projects, being the
seperated films and series outside of the main DCU, but I am gonna give James Gunn a
chance because like I mentioned, the characters aren't tied down to one interpretation.
It's going to be interesting to see which filmmakers and
actors do sign on for these new projects in the DCU, and if Gunn can attach some quality
individuals, then it will only raise my anticipation for
the whole thing going forward.
But let me know down below in the comments section what you think towards The Batman
sequel updates, the first reveals on the DCU Slate, and whether you're
generally excited for the lineup that DC have planned over the next few years.
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