Matt Reeves Confirms that Warner Bros. is Giving Him Free Range with The Batman

The Batman director Matt Reeves in a recent interview with Uproxx, confirmed that Warner Bros. is giving him free range when it comes to making The Batman.

Reeves confirming this information doesn’t come with much of a surprise, due to his earlier statements in other interviews and more so after he confirmation that he’ll be rewriting the script that was previously helmed by Ben Affleck and Geoff Johns, stating that it’s a new story, that he’ll be starting again with the script. 

So you are telling them, “Here’s what I want to do with Batman”?

Reeves: Yeah. When I come in, what I say is, “Look. First of all, you’re asking me if I’m interested in this franchise. I am. I love this franchise. I’ve loved it since I was a kid. But here’s the way in which I’m interested in it. And if you’re not interested in it in that way, then that’s totally fine.” And the good news was, they said, “Yeah, we’re really interested in that way.” And I remember this on Dawn, too. There would be moments where I came in for a pitch that was a certain version of the movie, and somewhere along the way, because they didn’t know me or whatever it was, they’d say, “Why don’t we do this?” And I would just simply say, “But that’s not the movie that we talked about. That’s not the movie I want to do.” And I have to say that they always backed down when it came down to that. And it’s kind of the way that I’ve always done it. And here’s the thing: I’m always happy not to do something. I’m usually looking for the reason to say no.

Source: Uproxx.com