Hi everyone it's Charlie! You've probably seen the news Robert Pattinson is apparently
going to be our next Batman in Matt Reeves the Batman trilogy or however
many movies he winds up doing so there's a whole bunch of stuff going on about
this I know you want to know what the movie is supposed to be about and why
they're going with Robert Pattinson why Ben Affleck isn't going to be the Batman
of Matt Reeves movies so we'll break it down no worries naturally as you'd
expect reactions are all over the place anytime there's a new Batman everybody
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this summer we're going to get a whole bunch more trailers and we'll find out
what's going on with the rest of the Justice League characters including the
flash and probably Superman as well so big news last night variety was
reporting that Robert Pattinson has been selected as the next Batman for Matt
Reeves trilogy there were a lot of other news outlets that were also saying that
the studio was considering Nicholas Hoult and they haven't completely
settled on who it's going to be but variety is usually pretty solid with
their scoops so unless they come out in the next couple of days and say
otherwise I'm assuming that Robert Pattinson is going to be our next Batman
I know the first thing you're thinking is is a wait a minute that Twilight
vampire guy that sparkles is going to be our next Batman what's up with that
Robert Pattinson has actually done a lot of really solid work post Twilight and
if you really do hate those Twilight movies I guarantee you that Robert
Pattinson hates them more than you this is a short montage of him hating the
Twilight movies in a bunch of different interviews that'll make you feel a
little bit better about him did your Twilight experience turn out to be what
you expected oh when I read it it seemed like wasn't it was like it was a book
that wasn't supposed to be published definitely something wrong with her and
there's very obviously something wrong with me
I was convinced that Stephanie was convinced she was Bella and when
especially when she says I was based on a dream and it's like oh I had this
dream by this really sexy guy and she just writes his book about it it's like
this woman is mad so now that we've established that Robert Pattinson hates
the Twilight movies as much as you what is the story of his movie going to be
how old is he going to be how are they going to associate him with the other
Justice League characters in present day because this is supposed to be a prequel
that's why they cast an actor that was so young the interesting thing though is
that Christian Bale I think was 31 when he was cast to be Batman in Batman
Begins in right now Robert Pattinson is 33 so he's older than Christian Bale
when Christian Bale became Batman right now the period of this first movie is
supposed to be somewhere around Batman year one period Matt Reeves defined it
as a story that would define who he was going forward so it's just a really epic
thing that happens to him early in his career that completely changes him going
forward last year insiders were calling Matt
Reeves script a version of Batman mask of the phantasm with a few of the
characters swapped and Batman mask of the phantasm is one of the best Batman
movies of all time it just happens to be animated so if you're going to crib from
other Batman stories that's one of the better ones to do
Matt Reeves said he wanted to take the franchise back to a very classic place
so it's meant to be Batman the world's greatest detective is going to be a
detective neo noir thriller the thing about modern Batman films is that with
the Christian Bale films as awesome as the Dark Knight trilogy is Batman turned
into more of a big action spectacle film with a lot of toys and a lot of big
explosions all over the place they kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger
when we got to Zack Snyder it got even bigger and bigger and further and
further away from his roots as a detective so Matt Reeves is taking him
back to that so obviously it's going to be a complete re imagining of what the
franchise looks like the look and feel as well as the cape and cowl the
characters everything from the ground up is going to be re imagined your follow up
question then is why isn't Ben Affleck going to be Batman in Matt Reeves movie
because it would be pretty easy for them to do a detective movie with Ben Affleck
Ben Affleck actually gave the answer to that himself
they said that basically there were two competing versions of the movie there
was the ben affleck geoff johns script that he was working on the past couple
of years while he was doing his zack snyder films i'll play the clip of him
talking about it in a second but per his explanation he just couldn't come up
with a version of the movie that he felt was really exciting really compelling it
that the studio liked I've read and I've seen announcements to
the effect of that you will not read you will not be Batman again I am yeah I
have decided to thank you thank you very much yeah you know I tried to direct a
version of it and worked with the really good screenwriter but just kind of
couldn't come up with a version that couldn't crack it and so I thought it
was like you know time to let someone else take a shot at they got some really
good people so we unofficially passed the baton to
Matt Reeves Matt Reeves version obviously as I said is world's greatest
detective Batman it's completely different take on the character and it's
a prequel so it's a much younger version of the character moving forward now I
know your next question is who's the main villain of this new Batman film
Matt Reeves actually revealed that there will be a number of Batman's rogues
gallery villains in the movie but early rumors were that the penguin would be
the main villain they have to do a lot of world building for whatever this new
version of Gotham is going to look like so just expect a lot of Batman's core
villains to pop up through the film next big question what about his Selina Kyle
Catwoman she didn't show up anywhere during any of the recent DCEU films she
might actually be showing up somewhere during the Matt
Reeves films because she was not cast for the birds-of-prey movie that movie's
supposed to be a girl gang of pseudo antihero characters Catwoman is probably
the biggest female antihero from the Batman comics next to Harley Quinn I
will go so far to say is the Catwoman is even less of a villain and more of a
hero than Harley Quinn usually when huge characters like that are not cast in
films that seem very appropriate for them is because they're bookmarked for
other films so don't be surprised if she winds up showing up somewhere in this
Matt Reeves film but I know the next question after that is his will Robert
Pattinson also play Batman in the next Justice League movie won't that be weird
if they only recast some of a DCEU Justice League characters from the last
film so what he'll probably happen is that he would have to sign a 3 to 5
picture deal for a trilogy of Matt Reeves Batman films and then potentially
a couple other crossover films way down the line but recently as part of the big
shake-up is the way they're changing this universe is that Warner Brothers
said that it's going to be a long time before they do another Justice League
movie so don't be surprised if we get two or three Matt Reeves Batman movies
before you see them do another Justice League film really good example of how
fast their timeline is moving is that the Aquaman sequel is not going to happen
for another three and a half years that is a glacially slow pace so for the most
part all the different DC films are allowed to be their own thing with very
very loose crossover and references to the other characters within the film's
Wonder Woman 1984 in the Aquaman movie are great examples of that Wonder Woman
set during the past so obviously no big characters are going to cross over into
that Aquaman referenced a couple of Justice League things from the events of
that movie but you didn't see any other big Justice League characters show up
during it defeated Steppenwolf and saved Atlantis
that had nothing to do with Atlantis so that is the level of crossover that
we're going for and then you ask what about the flash movie I'll talk about
that in a second too because what's happening this summer at comic-con is
they're probably going to drop the full Wonder Woman 1984 trailer because that
movies coming out next year and Ezra Miller really does seem like he's going to
be out as the flash but if I win you're off the team
you probably heard the story about how they were giving him a chance to write a
version of the movie with Grant Morrison DC also hired the Spider Man far from
home guys to direct the movie and to write it so right now Ezra Miller is
competing with them for his script in the film and people are saying that it's
just his bid to try and stay on as the flash before they recast him it's
getting really good it's getting really good enough you know anyone who knows
anything about Barry Allen knows that he's always late but then when he
arrives he gets stuff done and that's definitely how this film's production
schedule was proceeding we're a little late but we're really you know the
reason why we're late and this is the honest-to-god truth is the reason why
we're late is because we're all and I include myself in this we are very
meticulously focused on making a movie that's not just like one of the greatest
superhero movies that we can possibly make this movie is also going to be a gift
to the fans you know this movie this movie's going to be a real pure offering to
the fans of this material and we've hit a couple points in the scripts
development where we've looked at it and gone this isn't it this isn't it yet it
has to be and you know we're really we're starting about we're talking about
sparking a whole new universe which is it's not just the DC X multiverse it's
also it's the speedster multiverse the version of the movie the Ezra Miller
wants to make is more in the vein of the Zack Snyder universe dark flashpoint the
version of the movie that the Spider Man homecoming people are wanting to make
a little bit more on the vena back to the future it's a little bit brighter
like Wonder Woman 1984 in Aquaman so obviously DC is going in a much
brighter direction so I just do not expect them to pick Azra miller script
over the other script but officially they haven't commented on that recently
so we probably won't find out about that till the summer but I do think they're
going to recast Ezra Miller because they want to start shooting the Flash movie
towards the end of this year early next year we still don't know what's going to
happen with Superman in the Man of Steel franchise obviously they're going to
continue to make more Superman films but I'm not expecting to hear any kind of
news about that before the end of this year but they'll probably some rumors
going on and Henry Cavill is obviously doing The Witcher franchise I'll be
doing episode videos for that but I believe that's not going to premiere till
December so just expect a lot of Henry Cavill news to be happening later this
year let me know in the comments with all your reactions about this what do
you think about the way they're changing the universe about the idea of them
doing a world's greatest detective Batman franchise in the vein of mask of
the phantasm when we get more updates I will do more videos about that but
obviously we have crisis on Infinite Earths
happening on the TV shows I'll do a teaser trailer video for that this
weekend so just look out for that while you wait for everything click here for
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