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Matt Reeves will reportedly turn in his rewrite of The Batman before the New Year

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Since signing on to the project last summer as a replacement for Ben Affleck in the director’s chair, Matt Reeves has been hard at work shaping his vision for Warner Bros. and DC Films’ long-planned The Batman solo movie. Official updates on the film have been hard to come by – instead we’ve mainly just […]

J.K. Simmons says there is “no opportunity” for him to play Commissioner Gordon again soon

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J.K. Simmons, who played Commissioner Gordon in Justice League, has said that he doesn’t know when he will get to play the character again. While not many people were in love with 2017’s Justice League, no one seems to have much of a problem with J.K. Simmons as Commissioner Gordon. But will we ever get […]

Rumour: Matt Reeves and Ben Affleck reportedly have different visions for The Batman

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Having boarded the project last year after Ben Affleck chose to exit the director’s chair, Matt Reeves (War for the Planet of the Apes) recently completed work on the first draft of the script for Warner Bros. and DC Films’ The Batman, and has expressed his hope that cameras could get rolling on the Dark […]

Exclusive: BlacKkKlansman actor Paul Walter Hauser on campaigning to play the Penguin for DC, thinks he can do what “Heath Ledger did with the Joker”

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During an interview for the home video release of Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman, Flickering Myth questioned actor Paul Walter Hauser about his campaign to play the Penguin/Oswald Cobblepot in the DC Universe (especially Matt Reeves’ upcoming The Batman, in which the character is rumored to appear); while he didn’t divulge any details about whether or not he’s heard of any interest […]

Titans star Ryan Potter tried out for Tim Drake role in Ben Affleck’s The Batman

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Ryan Potter (Big Hero 6) is set to take on the role of Garfield Logan, a.k.a. Beast Boy, in DC Universe’s upcoming live-action Titans show, and at the New York Comic Con, executive producer Geoff Johns has revealed this wasn’t the actor’s first brush with the world of DC. Speaking at the Titans panel, Johns […]

Rumour: Warner Bros. “loves” The Batman script, aiming to shoot Summer 2019

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After more than a year of working on the screenplay, it was reported last week that Matt Reeves had completed his first draft of the script for The Batman and delivered this to Warner Bros. and DC Films. Well, if a new rumour from El Mayimbe is to be believed, Warner executives are said to […]

Matt Reeves has reportedly finished The Batman script

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Having signed on to the project early last summer following Ben Affleck’s exit from the director’s chair, Matt Reeves has spent the best part of the last year working on the script for The Batman, Warner Bros. and DC Films’ planned Dark Knight solo movie. Well, it is now being reported that the War for […]

UPDATE: Warner Bros. reportedly wants Kit Harington for The Batman role?

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If reports are to be believed, the DC Extended Universe has just lost its Superman, with Henry Cavill said to be exiting his role as the Man of Steel. Assuming said reports are true, Cavill being first out the door is certainly a surprise, given that there’s been constant rumours over the past year or […]