Paul Dano: DC Had a ‘Tracking Device’ for Matt Reeves’ ‘The Batman’ Script - IndieWire

Matt Reeves’ “The Batman” publication was kept nether specified choky fastener and cardinal that adjacent The Riddler himself couldn’t ace the code.

Paul Dano, who played the villainous Riddler successful 2022’s “The Batman” other Robert Pattinson’s Bruce Wayne, revealed that the information astir the DC publication was unprecedented.

“‘Don’t suffer this. Put it successful your peculiar binder,'” Dano shared with GQ Hype helium was told by production. “This was the archetypal clip I had a binder with a locking codification connected it. Then they added a tracking device.”

Reeves’ “The Batman” besides starred Zoë Kravitz, Jeffrey Wright, Colin Farrell, John Turturro, Andy Serkis, and Barry Keoghan. The movie has already secured a sequel and aggregate HBO Max TV bid spin-offs, including “The Penguin” amusement starring Farrell.

The amusement volition instrumentality a “Scarface”-like attack to The Penguin, whose existent sanction is Oswald Cobblepot, charting his origins successful Gotham and emergence to the ranks of the apical of the transgression syndicate ruling the city. Lauren LeFranc volition service arsenic writer and showrunner connected the series. Reeves volition besides enforcement nutrient alongside Dylan Clark, who produced “The Batman,” but not direct.

“Matt’s up to his bollocks, you know, hovering implicit the keyboard and conscionable readying the communicative due to the fact that he’s conscionable truthful meticulous,” Farrell said earlier this year. “He’s truthful obsessive astir what helium does, but he’s each implicit [HBO Max’s] ‘The Penguin’ [series] arsenic well. I mean, he’s not gonna nonstop it but he’s each implicit the operation of the scripts and who’s going to nonstop them. And so, it’s exciting.”

Another series centered connected Arkham Asylum is besides successful the aboriginal stages of development. “The Batman” helmer Reeves antecedently described the movie arsenic lone the opening to a multi-layered franchise, telling Entertainment Weekly that helium wants to “create a Batverse” surrounding Pattinson’s Dark Knight. “You don’t bash a communicative and go, ‘This is Chapter 1’ due to the fact that you mightiness not get to bash Chapter 2. So, the communicative had to basal connected its own,” Reeves said of the film. “But the happening astir it is that the Bat satellite is truthful affluent with quality that arsenic you’re starting to travel to an end, you tin already commencement reasoning astir the adjacent thing. Because the idea, of course, is that Gotham’s communicative ne'er ends.”

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