The Batman Director Matt Reeves on the Problem With Bat-Sequels - Gizmodo

We’re a agelong mode from seeing Matt Reeves’ 2nd installment of his Batman trilogy, but the manager is already reasoning astir however to debar a occupation that’s plagued Bat-sequel movies for years: they ever look to absorption connected the villains alternatively of Batman himself.

Reeves identified the contented (without naming immoderate names) during an interrogation with Collider: “To me, the happening that I truly consciousness is that I besides judge that Rob [Pattinson] is truthful peculiar successful the role. My extremity has ever been to bash these point-of-view stories that let the quality to ever beryllium the affectional halfway of the story. Because a batch of times what happens is, aft you bash the archetypal one, past abruptly different Rogues Gallery characters travel in, and they benignant of instrumentality over, and past Batman takes a backseat benignant of character-wise, oregon emotionally.”

It sounds a small foolish if you deliberation of it arsenic “The Batman sequel volition absorption connected Batman,” but Reeves has a point. When you retrieve the sequels successful Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy, you retrieve the villains Joker and Bane acold much than the relation Batman plays successful the films. At the precise least, they drove the movie guardant alternatively of the titular hero, dissimilar successful Batman Begins and The Batman, which featured Bruce Wayne honing his skills earlier returning to Gotham City and actively pursuing a serial killer, respectively.

There’s nary crushed to deliberation Reeves can’t propulsion this off; helium directed some of the sequels to Rise of the Planet of the Apes, which continued to absorption connected Caesar and his travel and were some rather excellent.

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