Director Matt Reeves, of the highly-anticipated movie “The Batman,” gave fans an update on the status of the film after production was halted due to the coronavirus.
“We’re not officially editing right now” Reeves shared with Deadline in a piece published Thursday. “We’ve actually shot a quarter of the movie and I have been pouring through dailies, looking at takes, and what’s to come.” (RELATED: Christian Bale Gets Robbed Of Best Actor Award At The Oscars For ‘Vice’)
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The director, who is currently self-isolating in London, said filming was about to conclude in London and move to Liverpool when filming stopped. But now said they will most likely remain in the town, noting that the “situation is fluid.” (RELATED: Miranda Lambert Opens Up About Her Love Life And Breaking Hearts)
“It’s way too early to say,” Reeves explained. “I can’t imagine we wouldn’t finish in London. The situation is fluid.”
The director of the next DC Comics film said the downtime hasn’t lead him to rewrite anything, because it took him “two years to work on that story, and it’s a very specific mystery noir that’s been really thought-out by me and my partners.”
However, it has allowed him to reconsider “the tone of things.”
“It happens any time you shoot anything,” he added. “The unexpected — happy accidents and things you didn’t quite expect: That is the lightning in a bottle for something that is alive.”
Reeves continued, “I would say that the changes really have to do with ‘Oh, seeing the tone of this’ with these scenes we haven’t done which connect to that part of the storyline. It feels like there might be an opportunity to explore some of that unexpected tone that we found. With these movies, you never have enough prep time, because they’re so complex and so enormous in so many ways. It also gives me a moment to think about the larger sequences that have yet to come up and how I want to realize those.”
As previously reported, Robert Pattinson shocked the world when news surfaced that he was picked to play the caped crusader/Bruce Wayne. In addition to Pattinson, Colin Farrell will star as the Penguin, Paul Dano as the Riddler and Zoe Kravitz scored the role of Catwoman.
Warner Bros. was previously set to open “The Batman” on June 25, 2021. There has been no other information about if it will still hit theaters on that day after production was halted mid-March due to the pandemic.