Bad news for ‘The Batman’ fans: as Matt Reeves announced at CinemaCon last April, the sequel hasn’t gotten the green light to Warner Bros. yet, much less now with the mess they’re making. According to Variety, the director is undoubtedly working, not only on this continuation, but also on the many spin-offs he wants to do, but the project is still ongoing. “developing” and it is in any case “years away”.
When CinemaCon took place, the company was headed by Toby Emmerich, who resigned shortly after. At that moment Emmerich announced it to the present public “Opaque [Reeves] took one of our most iconic and beloved superheroes and provided a new vision that clearly resonated with the audience and with their incredible support, broke box office records around the world, This is one of the reasons I’m excited to break the news that Matt, Robert Pattinson and the entire team will be bringing audiences back to Gotham with “The Batman 2”. “. But that was then and now is now. It is estimated that “The Batman”, which has 85% positive reviews from critics on Rotten Tomatoes and 87% from fans, it cost about $ 200 million and grossed more than $ 770 million worldwide. That’s why, while it doesn’t come close to collections of some Marvel Studios films reaching 1,000 million, the only reason not to continue with this franchise would be that it doesn’t fit in with the new plans for the DC universe that David has Zaslav, current. Warner CEO.
“We will focus on a team dedicated exclusively to DC and a ten-year plan”Zaslav said, “It’s very similar to the structure that Alan Horn and Bob Iger put together very efficiently with Kevin Feige at Disney. […] We believe we can build a much stronger long-term business with sustainable growth from DC. ” And where does “The Batman” fit into all of this? Well, it’s complicated because it definitely doesn’t take place in the same universe as “Aquaman”, “Wonder Woman” and the rest of “Zack Snyder’s Justice League”, where Bruce Wayne is officially Ben Affleck; but it doesn’t even share a universe with “Joker”, the sequel of which is the only production that has been officially confirmed by the company after meeting with investors. In any case, Reeves is still working on the Penguin series with Colin Farrell. And he watches what happens.
Other projects in an unknown state
But the confusion with Warner Bros. plans goes far beyond that. We know that ‘Batgirl’ has been permanently canceled in principle because it was shot in film quality for television and not for a commercial release, and Warner has completely eliminated any streaming strategy. However, there are other DC Extended Universe productions that should have been released in theaters and that nothing has been said about, so in principle they would have moved on. This is the case of ‘Blue Beetle’, with the first Mexican-American superhero; and ‘Black Canary’, the solo film of the character played by Jurnee Smollett-Bell in ‘Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of Harley Quinn)’ probably needs to be reinvented, because it was originally meant for HBO Max but is not been canceled for now.
As they recall in Variety, other projects that have been in development for years and of which we know nothing include the third episode of “Wonder Woman” with Patty Jenkins, the “Superman” written by Ta-Nehisi Coates, the “Zatanna” by Emerald Fennell and one about “Static Shock” that Michael B. Jordan would produce.
Source: E Cartelera
