WITH the much-anticipated The Batman film receiving rave opinions from critics and followers since hitting theatres late final week, one may suppose this is able to be an excellent signal for the upcoming HBO MAX Batman series that had been deliberate to start manufacturing after the film.
However, throughout an interview on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, The Batman director Matt Reeves confirmed that the spin-off tv series had been put on hold indefinitely.
Reeves had been requested by the podcast about his plans following the movie’s success. He defined: “One thing that we’re not doing that I was gonna do … So, there’s the Gotham police show, which, that one actually is put on hold. We’re not really doing that.”
The series was introduced by HBO MAX in July 2020. Reeves and Boardwalk Empire creator Terence Winter have been imagined to work collectively on the undertaking, however the latter was changed by Joe Borton after Winter left in November 2020 as a result of inventive variations.
Reeves defined this is able to have been a prequel to The Batman.
“The series was going to be kind of like [1981 crime drama] Prince of the City, where it was going to be year one because the movie is year two, and I wanted it to be the first appearance,“ he explained. “But it wasn’t going to be a Batman story. It was going about this corrupt cop, and it was going to be about how the worst gang in Gotham were the GCPD. And Bruce would have touched paths with Gordon. It would have been someone to measure him against, but it would be a battle for his soul.”
Reeves talked about the concept of Gotham City P.D was “super cool, but they didn’t not like the idea, they just wanted to center a show on a character who was more – I get it,” a corrupted cop as a important character is not what they needed. “So I was like, okay. So maybe someday we’ll do that show.”
Despite the announcement of the present on hold, The Batman managed to prime the US field workplace with US$128 million (RM534.7 million) over the weekend.
