Last week it was rumoured that Warner Bros. DC Films and director Matt Reeves will be rebooting the Dark Knight with a new actor under the cape and cowl, and that The Batman may potentially exist within the same universe as Todd Phillips’ Joker origin movie as opposed to the DC Extended Universe.
Well, another day, another rumour, with Mario-Francisco Robles of Revenge of the Fans now claiming The Batman is indeed a reboot, albeit one that could still exist within the wider DCEU.
“Essentially, they want to develop this Batman movie as if it is a reboot,” said Robles. “But they’re not gonna make any overt statements about it. They’re just gonna make a movie about a younger Batman. I believe it takes place in the past, which will create a backdoor for if they ever do want to cross-pollinate him with the other DC characters again.”
“They’re going to make Batman as his own standalone franchise, they’re gonna basically start him over again to a degree,” he continues. “But they’re going to leave a back door open so that, depending on how the next few DC movies do, from there, they can decide which continuity he’s a part of and whether or not they’re gonna push forward on the shared concept and do more crossover movies.”
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The rumour mill has churned out pretty much every possible permutation for The Batman by this point, save for Ben Affleck continuing in the role for a movie that takes place post-Justice League. With that in mind, it seems pretty clear that none of these scoopers really have the faintest idea what’s going on with the movie at the moment.
Let’s hope Warner Bros. does, and we get an answer once and for all at next month’s Comic-Con.
