{"id":98890,"date":"2017-08-25T09:34:53","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T08:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=98890"},"modified":"2017-08-25T09:36:19","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T08:36:19","slug":"matt-reeves-batman-is-in-the-dc-movie-universe-everybody-calm-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/matt-reeves-batman-is-in-the-dc-movie-universe-everybody-calm-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Reeves&#8217; The Batman is in the DC movie universe, everybody calm down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the news that Warner Bros and DC were working on a Joker origin movie that would be independent of the wider DC cinematic universe,\u00a0people rediscovered a Matt Reeves quote from a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcrw.com\/news-culture\/shows\/the-business\/director-matt-reeves-on-war-for-the-planet-of-the-apes\">KCRW<\/a>\u00a0interview back in July that made it sound like his new <strong><em>Batman<\/em><\/strong> film would be taking a similar route. He used phrases like &#8220;standalone&#8221; and &#8220;not part of the extended universe&#8221; and everyone started looking very hard at Ben Affleck again.<\/p>\n<p>However, Reeves has now taken to Twitter to clarify what he meant last month and the message seems to be that his words have been misinterpreted. Here we go&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Jeez, what&#8217;d I miss, guys&#8230;? ????<\/p>\n<p>Just to be clear: Of COURSE Batman will be part of the D.C. Universe. Batman will be BATMAN&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matt Reeves (@mattreevesLA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattreevesLA\/status\/900784577802678272\">August 24, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">In my comments from a while back about not being part of the DCEU, I was talking about The Batman being a story specifically about Batman&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matt Reeves (@mattreevesLA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattreevesLA\/status\/900784804886568960\">August 24, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8230;not about the others in the Universe. That it wouldn&#8217;t be filled with cameos servicing other stories &#8212; that it would be a BATMAN story.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matt Reeves (@mattreevesLA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattreevesLA\/status\/900784948025503745\">August 24, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"und\">????<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matt Reeves (@mattreevesLA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattreevesLA\/status\/900785061926010880\">August 24, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>That last tweet is our favourite.<\/p>\n<p>This chimes with what Affleck was saying at Comic-Con about being &#8220;so thrilled to do it. It&#8217;s fucking amazing&#8230;I\u00a0\u00a0would be an ape on the ground for Matt Reeves!&#8221; Reeves has also said that the plan is indeed to have Affleck don the cape and cowl for this film. It&#8217;s just the latest chapter in the\u00a0seemingly never-ending saga of <strong><em>The Batman<\/em><\/strong>&#8216;s complicated pre-production. It feels like the only thing left to do at this point is for someone to start hinting that it&#8217;s a secret Cloverfield movie or something.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Justice League<\/em>\u00a0is in cinemas from 17 November 2017. Get all the latest superhero movie news\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imagineshop.co.uk\/index.php\/catalog\/product\/view\/id\/4741\/s\/scifinow-issue-127\/?utm_source=SciFiNow&amp;utm_medium=cover&amp;utm_campaign=Product-Widget\">with every issue of SciFiNow.<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Batman director Matt Reeves asks &#8220;What&#8217;d I miss, guys?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":98891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,3],"tags":[2145,5414],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/justice-league-batman-poster.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98890"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}