Robert Pattinson"s return in Matt Reeves" upcoming The Batman 2 will avoid repeating Christopher Nolan"s The Dark Knight"s biggest mistake.
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The Batman - Part II is already confirmed lớn avoid The Dark Knight's biggest problem. 2022's The Batman brought khổng lồ life many aspects of the Batman comics that had not been touched to great extents in the character's live-action appearances. The movie focused on Batman's detective side, one of the character's most important traits. As that aspect had not really been explored in live-action, Reeves was terrified of the reception khổng lồ The Batman's detective story.
In the end, The Batman's detective storyline proved itself one of the movie's highlights. The Batman was released to lớn overwhelming praise, with the film's success allowing Reeves khổng lồ expand his pocket DC universe. The Batman's universe will now exist under DC's Elseworlds label, as revealed by James Gunn. That means Reeves can continue to lớn develop projects in The Batman universe without affecting the new DC Universe's canon. Those projects include The Penguin series, as well as The Batman 2. The Batman 2's story does not have many details revealed yet; however, the film is confirmed to lớn avoid The Dark Knight's biggest problem.
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The Batman 2 Is Avoiding A Dark Knight Problem
Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight is highly regarded as one of the best superhero movies of all time — if not the best — and receives a lot of praise for Heath Ledger's generational performance as the Joker. While Ledger's scene-stealing performance as the Joker elevates the movie, it also takes the spotlight away from Christian Bale's Batman. Bale's portrayal of the character is one of the best in live-action, with the actor perfectly balancing Batman's broodier side và Bruce Wayne's playboy persona.
Still, the actor played second fiddle to Ledger's acting masterclass in The Dark Knight. The movie's biggest problem is its focus being the Joker rather than Batman. Reeves has confirmed that The Batman 2 will not face that same problem. Speaking with Collider, the director revealed that his goal continues to be having Pattinson's Batman as the story's emotional center. Reeves confirmed he is against villains coming in và taking over the movie, "and then Batman takes a backseat sort of character-wise." Based on the director's words, The Batman 2 will avoid The Dark Knight's biggest problem.
Reeves is doing the right thing by keeping The Batman 2's focus on Pattinson's Dark Knight. The Batman featured a version of the anh hùng that was consumed by vengeance, with Bruce Wayne being lost amid his superhero persona. With the movie's ending allowing Batman to become a symbol of hope, The Batman 2 can explore a new side of the character by featuring Pattinson's Bruce more prominently. The actor gave a memorable Batman performances in The Batman. If the sequel allows Pattinson to lớn explore more of the character, then The Batman - Part II has a chance of cementing the actor as the best portrayal of the character in live-action. Will director Matt Reeves reunite with cinematographer Greig Fraser for the highly anticipated sequel to The Batman?
Fans of Matt Reeves’ The Batman can rejoice that the filmmaker’s follow-up, The Batman 2, has escaped Warner Bros. Discovery’s recent controversial cancelations of Batgirl and several other DC projects at various stages of development. Warner Bros. Discovery struck a multi-year khuyến mãi with Matt Reeves, securing the future of The Batman films. This includes a Penguin spinoff show for Colin Farrell. The studio has also announced that Robert Pattinson will return to reprise his lead role as Batman, guaranteeing fans at least a little more screen time of Bruce Wayne without the cowl. Also announced is Reeves’ intention to pen the script again with fellow The Batman screenwriter Mattson Tomlin.
Still, there are many players from the impressive cast of The Batman whose return is yet to be announced, among them; Zoë Kravitz, Jeffrey Wright, Colin Farrell, Paul Dano, Andy Serkis, Peter Sarsgaard, và Barry Keoghan. Then there are the players from the equally impressive crew of The Batman that we are likewise still in the dark about.
Most notably absent from recent Warner Bros. Announcements on The Batman 2 is whether Reeves will reunite with cinematographer Greig Fraser, whose collaboration on The Batman resulted in the Dark Knight’s visually darkest film yet, let alone one of the visually darkest commercial successes Hollywood has ever produced. While Fraser’s low-key lighting on The Batman was applauded by many who compared the look to that of film noirs & darker Batman comics, it also drew frustration from a minority of viewers who could not make out enough detail in the frame, even in darkened cinemas. God help any HBO Max viewers attempting to lớn stream The Batman during the day.
Will Greig Fraser Return for The Batman 2?
So will Fraser join Reeves in bringing moviegoers everywhere back khổng lồ a Gotham thành phố dimmer than David Fincher’s rain-drenched Los Angeles in Seven? It appears likely but not certain since Fraser, having gained traction for his work back in 2016 on Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, has kept busy with some of Hollywood’s hottest Covid-era franchises from The Mandalorian lớn his Oscar-winning work on Dune; the follow-up to lớn which Fraser is currently filming with Denis Villeneuve, Dune: Part Two. This should không tính tiền him up by the time Reeves và Tomlin can realistically deliver their finished script for The Batman 2.
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Fraser’s recent work demonstrates an eagerness lớn return to lớn immersive worlds with successful collaborators. So while it is unlikely that Fraser would miss out on the opportunity to leave audiences everywhere squinting up at the Caped Crusader’s next chapter if Denis Villeneuve makes good on his stated desire to lớn direct a third Dune film based on Frank Herbert’s 1969 sequel to his original novel, Dune Messiah, it seems more likely that Fraser would choose the French-Canadian director over Reeves. Even if Fraser were lớn be replaced, his low lighting from The Batman would most likely be replicated, if not turned down even more (somehow), as the trend of Batman getting darker và darker is much larger than just Reeves và Fraser.
Over the decades, film & television adaptations of Batman have become progressively darker both thematically & visually; the latter of which can be seen from the director/cinematographer collaborations of William Dozier/Howard Schwartz Batman television series of the 1960s to lớn Tim Burton/Roger Pratt films in the late 1980s/early 1990s khổng lồ the acclaimed Christopher Nolan/Wally Pfister film trilogy of the oughts và 2010s and, finally, to lớn the Matt Reeves/Greig Fraser film released earlier this year.
Let's look at how the cinematography in Batman film & television adaptations got progressively darker over the decades.
“Holy Smog, Batman!” The William Dozier-created television series Batman, which ran from 1966 khổng lồ 1968, made no attempt to lớn conceal the bright Los Angeles sunshine, sharing more in common visually with Beach Boys album covers than the Gotham thành phố of the Batman comic books. Cinematographer Howard Schwartz shot a whopping 58 episodes for the classic Batman show. The bulk of the series.
Tim Burton and Roger Pratt clouded the large Pinewood studio sets và dark street locations of Southern England with fog machines in their 1989 film Batman. It resulted in a Gotham whose visual difference lớn the sunny California locations from the Dozier television series twenty years earlier was literally night and day.
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However, Roger Pratt was replaced by Stefan Czapsky for the 1992 sequel Batman Returns.
Christopher Nolan and Wally Pfister ditched Burton’s fog machines, creating a naturalistically dark sequence with their high-speed tunnel chase on the night streets of Chicago in their 2008 film, The Dark Knight. The film notably features Heath Ledger’s Joker pulling out a bazooka from his bag of tricks.
Somehow, Matt Reeves và Greig Fraser managed khổng lồ go a shade darker than Nolan và Pfister’s naturalistic Chicago tunnel chase with a Batmobile chase so dark that many shots appeared flipped in rain-splattered rearview mirrors, plunging audiences into a visual labyrinth of rainstorms và explosions.
So even if Fraser does not return for The Batman 2, it seems unlikely that Reeves will turn up the lights on the sequel lớn the only superhero film that makes cinematographer Gordon Willis’ work on The Godfather look like a sitcom.
