Matt Reeves Discusses ‘The Penguin’ Season 2 And Scrapped Batman Cameo
Will there be a season 2 of The Penguin? Matt Reeves provides his ideas on what the longer term holds for The Batman universe.
It’s no secret that The Penguin has been a large success critically and viewership-wise. This has left all eyes on Matt Reeves to see if the present will come again for a season 2, or if he plans to depart it behind as The Batman universe continues to develop. When requested about if followers will ever get a follow-up to Oz Cobb’s story, Reeves admitted that there have been some discussions in regards to the thought.
“We’re, in a really preliminary manner — me, Lauren, [Reeves’ producing partner] Dylan [Clark], and Colin — beginning to discuss what can be the way in which,” Reeves defined to Leisure Weekly. “For me, what’s actually vital is that we earn it. The thought of revisiting signifies that we’ve to maintain that very same bar. I do know that none of us desires to return and simply do extra. We wish to return and do one thing nice.”
“We’re leaving Oz and [Gotham] in a state the place the town remains to be making an attempt to heal itself from what occurred. It’s additionally a time, as you see [with] what goes on with Vic and Crown Level, the place the town’s deeply wounded. As we’re coming into the film, all of that stuff remains to be broiling. The repercussions of what occurred on account of the final film and what’s occurred throughout this gang battle are very a lot the desk setter for the way in which we enter into [The Batman Part II].”
In a world the place sequels upon sequels get greenlit earlier than the preliminary outing even proves to be successful, it’s good to listen to that Matt Reeves is tempering expectations with regards to a possible season 2 of The Penguin. It’s clear he’s placing an excessive amount of love into constructing The Batman universe, even when it means slicing a cameo that many followers would have misplaced their minds over.
Batman’s Reduce Cameo In The Penguin
The one grievance that some followers have with The Penguin is that, even regardless of all of the madness going down in Gotham, at no level does Batman himself ever present up. Nevertheless, Matt Reeves admits that there have been early plans for Robert Pattinson to make a cameo within the present. But identical to the potential of a season 2, he didn’t wish to do it if it wasn’t earned.
“Over the course of writing the season, we mentioned many occasions whether or not or not there could be some cross-through that might really feel earned. We tried just a few completely different concepts conceptually, nothing that was ever written finally, however nothing appeared to fairly gel in a manner that felt earned.”
Given how grounded The Penguin was, it does make some sense to not have an emo billionaire in a leather-based swimsuit come to beat down mobsters. Though followers know Matt Reeves was proper to tug the plug on the cameo, there’s doubtless an element in all followers who wished to have seen Batman at the very least communicate to Oz Cobb in less-than-life-threatening circumstances. Although with a possible season 2 on the horizon, the dream is probably not useless but!
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