The Batman may not be scheduled for release until March 2022, but actor Robert Pattinson is already thinking ahead to potential sequels.
In an interview with Empire, Pattinson revealed that he has ideas for his Bruce Wayne spanning two sequels. Although The Batman is being planned as a "standalone" film, it appears Pattinson has thought a lot about where the story could go next. "I've made a kind of map for where Bruce's psychology would grow over two more movies," he said. "I would love to do it."
In the same interview, The Batman producer Dylan Clarke addressed his hopes for the movie. “As the first standalone Batman in ten years, the hope is we can lay a foundation that you can build stories upon,” Clarke explained.
Director and co-writer of The Batman, Matt Reeves, has also made it clear that the movie had to be a standalone project. The last time Batman appeared on the big screen was in the DC Extended Universe with Ben Affleck in the batsuit, and Affleck will reprise the role in the yet to be released The Flash. However, Reeves said that he "emphasized to Affleck and Warner Bros. that he would 'need to be able to create an iteration with a personal aspect to [The Batman],' which wasn't obliged to 'connect with all these other things' in the DCEU."
Reeves explained the process he used to create that personal aspect and bring something new to the character of Batman. "When I write, I listen to music, and as I was writing the first act, I put on Nirvana's 'Something In The Way,'" Reeves said. "That's when it came to me that, rather than make Bruce Wayne the playboy version we've seen before, there's another version who had gone through a great tragedy and become a recluse. So I started making this connection to Gus Van Sant's Last Days, and the idea of this fictionalised version of Kurt Cobain being in this kind of decaying manor."
Zoë Kravitz also looked to other sources as she prepared for her role as Catwoman. "We watched cats and lions and how they fight," Kravitz said, "and talked about what is actually possible when you’re my size, and Batman’s so much stronger than me. What is my skill? It’s being fast and tricky. So we did some really interesting floor work that incorporated different kinds of martial arts and capoeira and a kind of feline, dance-like movement."
The Batman releases in theaters on March 4, 2022.
Source: Empire