DC Studios THREAD - GunnVerse Begins - Chapter ONE: Gods & Monsters

[MajinZuub]

if we including animated movies, got a whole lot more that NEED to be added

A decent a moment of em above anything Snyder

Everything is above Snyder. Schumacher movies everyone hates but I'd rather watch those again that the Snyder movies. I can look at the Schumacher ones in the vein of the Adam West series and that makes them a lot more enjoyable

 

[MajinZuub]

Also I seriously do not want to see Joker on screen for a long time. Barry Keoghhan casting I do find intriguing though.

 

[x Buddha Bless x]

Oh yeah, I guess things make a bit more sense about this depiction of the Riddler if he is in fact a mix between the Riddler and Hush.

Hush was a straight up serial killer.

 

[Mark Antony]

I feel like Reeves should still do a BatFleck based on the same character.

 

[Armada]

Just got back from seeing it.

Loved it that full on detective Batman feel needed that

 

[mastamind033]

Riddler was Joaquin Joker plus riddles. That cry baby stuff at the end was weak. I wish they actually tied him to the corruption instead of just making him a downtrodden nobody that figured it all out cuz he happened to be a forensic accountant. The overall mystery wasn’t really a big mystery and having Riddler intertwined directly in some way could have given it a much-needed added wrinkle.

Spoiler

I thought they were gonna go with Riddler’s dad being the journalist that Falcone killed.

 

[MajinZuub]

Riddler was Joaquin Joker plus riddles. That cry baby stuff at the end was weak. I wish they actually tied him to the corruption instead of just making him a downtrodden nobody that figured it all out cuz he happened to be a forensic accountant. The overall mystery wasn’t really a big mystery and having Riddler intertwined directly in some way could have given it a much-needed added wrinkle.

I was cool with how all that went. Riddler using Batman as a tool and thinking that they were partners, especially being inspired by Batman then finding out otherwise and crushing him after all the work he put in, it checked out to me. He wanted to fight corruption alongside Batman.

Having Riddler tied to political corruption doesn't really match with his character at all

 

[MajinZuub]

Matt Reeves Explains ‘The Batman’ Ending: Do Not Expect to See (SPOILER) in Another Movie[​

By Adam B. Vary
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Warner Bros. / Courtesy Everett Collection
SPOILER WARNING: Do not read if you have not seen “The Batman,” currently playing in theaters. This story discusses a major spoiler at the end of the movie.
When director Matt Reeves sat down to conceive his vision for “The Batman,” he wanted to embrace the idea from the comics that as Bruce Wayne (Robert Pattinson) found his footing as a costumed vigilante, he would inspire his eventual rogues gallery to take on their equally larger-than-life personas. Over the course of the film, that transformation commences for both villains — Paul Dano’s Riddler and Colin Farrell’s Penguin — as well as Batman’s quasi-partner in crimefighting, Selina Kyle (Zoë Kravitz), as she becomes Catwoman.


While Dano’s Riddler especially takes center stage in driving the story, Reeves also wanted to give audiences the feeling that other possible Batman villains could be lurking in the periphery, just out of the camera’s gaze.

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“I thought it’d be really neat if so much of the fabric of Gotham just already existed,” Reeves tells Variety. “And it was like an old Warner Bros. gangster movie and if you took a certain turn, you might see a character in his origins.”
That feeling is no better demonstrated than in the penultimate scene of the movie, after Dano’s Riddler has been locked up in Arkham Asylum, struck by despair that his grand plan to destroy Gotham has been foiled by Batman. As he wails in anguish, a voice from the cell next to his whispers from the door.
“What is it they say?” the inmate says. “One day you’re on top. The next, you’re a clown.” As the camera pulls back, Riddler and the inmate dissolve into laughter and a new, wicked friendship is born.
The character, played by Barry Keoghan (“Eternals,” “The Killing of a Sacred Deer”), is credited as “Unseen Arkham Inmate.” But any astute Batman fan — or, for that matter, Batman neophyte — will know who this inmate is meant to be.
“You’re right,” Reeves says. “It is the Joker.”
While it may seem obvious that Reeves placed this scene at the end of “The Batman” to set up Keoghan as the lead villain for the inevitable sequel, the director was quick to explain that not only was that not his intention, he is in no way convinced that Keoghan’s Joker will appear in any more “Batman” movies.
“It’s not an Easter egg scene,” he says. “It’s not one of those end credits Marvel or DC scenes where it’s going, like, ‘Hey, here’s the next movie!’ In fact, I have no idea when or if we would return to that character in the movies.”
It turns out that Reeves’ had initially planned for Keoghan’s Joker to take a (slightly) bigger role in his film — only to almost cut Keoghan out of the movie entirely. Here’s everything the filmmaker had to say about the character and what his future could be within his “Batman” universe, including a possible HBO Max series about Arkham Asylum.

Paul Dano in “The Batman.”Warner Bros. / Courtesy Everett Collection

“It’s Almost Our Anniversary, Isn’t It?”​

In an early cut of “The Batman,” Keoghan actually showed up much earlier, in a scene following the revelation that the Riddler has killed the Gotham City police commissioner (before Jeffrey Wright’s Jim Gordon gets the job) and left behind yet another note addressed to the Batman. Between the Riddler’s notes casting an uncomfortable spotlight on Batman and the discovery that the Riddler is killing city leaders neck-deep in corruption, Batman finds himself unnerved over what to make of what the Riddler is doing.


“I thought he would be really insecure about this and he’d probably want to find some way to get into the [Riddler’s] mindset, like in ‘Manhunter’ or ‘Mindhunter’ — this idea of profiling somebody, so you can predict his next move,” says Reeves.
So Reeves shot a scene in which Batman snuck inside Arkham, arriving at the door of a specific inmate.
“And this guy says, ‘It’s almost our anniversary, isn’t it?'” says Reeves. “You realize that they have a relationship, and that this guy obviously did something, and Batman somehow got him into Arkham.”
As they talk, Batman tells Joker he wants to know how Riddler thinks. Joker’s reply, as relayed by Reeves: “What do you mean, you want to know how he thinks? You guys think the same.”
Reeves smiles. “What he’s really doing is getting into Batman’s head,” he says. “And [Batman] is resisting this idea violently. And so that’s what that scene was. It was a scene to unsettle him.”
Ultimately, however, Reeves felt that the scene hit the same beat accomplished elsewhere in the movie. So he cut it. “It wasn’t necessary,” he says. “It was one of those scenes where, given how complex the narrative was, by taking it out, it kept the story moving in a way it needed to.”

Matt Reeves directs Robert Pattinson on the set of “The Batman.”Courtesy of Jonathan Olley/Warner Bros.

“This Place Is Never Going to Change”​

Cutting the first Joker scene was so heartbreaking that Reeves intends to release it once enough people have seen “The Batman.”
“It’s a really creepy, cool scene,” he says. “That was the scene that was meant to introduce this guy and just to tease the audience to go like, ‘Oh my god, he’s here too? And he’s not yet the Joker — what’s this going to be?’ And then it seems so delicious in the story, since we’d already set him up, to have the end of the story, the completion of the Riddler arc, be that he was in a cell next to this guy.”
But when Reeves cut the first scene, he thought the second scene with the Riddler would need to go as well — cutting Keoghan out of the movie entirely. When he tested the movie, however, he realized that losing the Joker and Riddler’s meet creep (to tweak a common phrase) affected the final scene of the film — in which Selina implores Batman to leave Gotham with her, knowing he’s fated to stay and fight for his city.
“Because when Selena is saying to him, ‘This place is never going to change,’ you hadn’t seen that, in fact, trouble was already brewing,” Reeves says. “You kind of felt like, well, Couldn’t you just go with her? Go with her! What’s the problem? What’s wrong with you?! It changed the emotional stakes. It didn’t feel the same.” Reeves also didn’t like losing the final beat of the Riddler’s arc, in which, after a lifetime of neglect and isolation, he finally finds a compatriot — albeit a murderous psychopath.
So he put the Joker-Riddler scene back in. “I initially tested it without it; when I put it back in, the scores for the ending went back up,” he says. “And I think it wasn’t just that people enjoyed seeing that character. It changed people’s response to the very ending of the movie, to see that Gotham was still Gotham, and that Batman really didn’t have a choice. He has to keep doing what he’s gonna do.”
Reeves knows that introducing the Joker so close to the end of the movie will invariably lead audiences to expect to see more of him in the next film. But that was not anywhere close to his goal. “I never was trying to say like, ‘Hey, guess what, here’s the Joker. Next movie!'” he says. “The idea was more to say, ‘Hey, look, if you think that trouble is going to go away in Gotham, you can forget it. It’s already here. And it’s already delicious.'”

Left: Conrad Veidt in “The Man Who Laughs”; right: Barry Keoghan.Courtesy Everett Collection; Provider: Evan Agostini/Invision/AP

“So a Joke Was Played on Me”​

To keep an air of mystery, and reinforce the idea that this Joker hasn’t fully become the Joker, Reeves decided to shoot both of Keoghan’s scenes with the actor’s face obscured and partially out of focus. But he still worked with prosthetic makeup artist Michael Marino (“Coming 2 America”) to develop this Joker’s full look.
“I said, ‘The shape of his hair, the shape of his mouth, it’s all going to read, but it’s going to be soft,'” Reeves says of his conversation with Marino. “So he knew that was the canvas he had to deal with.”
With so many Jokers in cinema history, the trick was figuring out how to differentiate Keoghan’s look as the character from his predecessors. So Reeves and Marino turned to the original inspiration for the Joker: Conrad Veidt’s performance in the 1928 silent film “The Man Who Laughs,” based on a novel by Victor Hugo.
“It’s like ‘Phantom of the Opera,'” Reeves says. “He has a congenital disease where he can’t stop smiling and it’s horrific. His face is half-covered through most of the film.” While it’s barely perceptible in the movie, Marino’s makeup evoked Veidt’s, giving Keoghan an unceasing rictus grin.
Even for a character who has just minutes of screen time, Reeves wanted to ensure that his film’s Joker was imbued with a clear psychological motivation, so he also extrapolated what it would be like for a kid to be born with a condition in which he never stopped smiling.


“It’s not about some version where he falls into a vat of chemicals and his face is distorted, or what [Christopher] Nolan did, where there’s some mystery to how he got these scars carved into his face,” he says. “What if this guy from birth had this disease and he was cursed? He had this smile that people stared at that was grotesque and terrifying. Even as a child, people looked at him with horror, and his response was to say, ‘Okay, so a joke was played on me,’ and this was his nihilistic take on the world.”

Left: Heath Ledger in “The Dark Knight”; right: Joaquin Phoenix in “Joker.”

“I Was Looking for Somebody Who Was Fearless”​

When Keoghan’s casting was announced, his character was presented as a Gotham City cop named Stanley Merkel who works with Jim Gordon.
“I didn’t want to call him the Joker,” Reeves says. “I wanted him to be this kind of lean forward thing for people who were fans to go like, ‘Oh my god, I think that’s the Joker. I think they’re doing the Joker.'” But Reeves also knew that if he announced Keoghan’s actual screen credit — “Unseen Arkham Inmate” — it wouldn’t take very long for fans to guess what he was up to.
“I didn’t want to create all this speculation that we were doing the Joker by naming what he was, so we thought, well, let’s make him be a cop, and then people won’t really think too hard about it,” he says. Alas, between leaks from test screenings and a cryptic Instagram post, the internet thought plenty hard about who Keoghan was playing well before “The Batman” debuted, and sleuthed out that he was, indeed, playing the Joker.
Whether Keoghan will keep playing the Joker remains an open question.
“There might be places,” Reeves says. “There’s stuff I’m very interested in doing in an Arkham space, potentially for HBO Max. There are things we’ve talked about there. So it’s very possible. It also isn’t impossible, that there is some story that comes back where Joker comes into our world.”
By the same token, Reeves is acutely aware of the many memorable performances actors have given as the Joker, including by Jack Nicholson, Mark Hamill, Jared Leto, and — earning them both Oscars — Heath Ledger and Joaquin Phoenix.
“We made a really concerted effort to make this different from the other ‘Batman’ movies, because we needed to,” he says. “It’s something to think about with the Joker. It’s been done well, a number of times.”
When Reeves met with Keoghan about playing the Joker, he says he told the actor about his concerns. “I said to Barry, right from the beginning, ‘Look, I don’t know where this is going to go. I can’t promise that it’ll even ever come back. I don’t know.’ And I still feel that way now. I’m not sure exactly.”
For that reason, Reeves wanted someone eager to take on the “high-wire act” of playing the Joker, even if the performance only ever ended up lasting a few scant minutes. “I was looking not only for somebody who was a good actor, but somebody who was fearless,” he says. “Joaquin, as we were making the movie, had just won the Oscar. They already thought you can’t do the Joker again after Heath Ledger. And then Joaquin comes in. So I can imagine an actor going like, ‘There’s nowhere to go but down!'”
Reeves chuckles. “Barry was full in. That, along with the fact that I loved him as an actor, was the deciding factor. And we did it.”
Whether they’ll ever do it again will have to remain a tantalizing riddle for now.









So there was a cut scene with Joker earlier in the movie. Probably the right choice. Glad to see no more Joker plans either. Seems like Court of Owls has being going around a lot and I guess Reeves said he has an idea to make Mr. Freeze more grounded and work in his world so curious about that.
Also him being excited for the potential he has with this world on HBO Max is

 

[tay1]

I don’t want to see a grounded Mr. Freeze . I am getting tired of people trying to take all of the colorful characters out of Batman’s world.

 

[rfx45]

it can work, just switch the red lights to blue

with a little stretch of imagination, they can go the arkham games route





but if reeves gon stick to the crime thriller genre then something too supernatural wont work, bats has enough in his rogues gallery to make a trilogy even without touching the joker til the third film or later

court of owls/talon
bane
hush
hugo strange
calendar man
deathstroke
2face
ra’s/loa
black mask
mad hatter
clock king

i think all of those can be pulled of and still being real grounded

poison ivy, mr freeze, killer croc, clayface, etc… are a bit too out there/supernatural for reevesverse but one villain id really, really love him to give us is phantasm, its nearly impossible but if they can keep that a big secret and make that huge reveal then it would be amazing

 

[tay1]

I’m sure whatever Reaves goes with will work.

I just think Batman should stop being depicted as a hero void of supernatural elements. I feel like WB believes the grounded element is a big selling point to those not too interested in superhero movies.

 

[rfx45]

rataalada website got updated with a countdown currently at 36%

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then gives us this which says it snot over yet: https://www.rataalada.com/opo/Its_Not_Over_Yet.jpg

which translates to:

 

[MarvelSux]

 

[rfx45]

I’m sure whatever Reaves goes with will work.

I just think Batman should stop being depicted as a hero void of supernatural elements. I feel like WB believes the grounded element is a big selling point to those not too interested in superhero movies.

i know studios are dumb but when cbm’s are making billi’s left and right, i dont know why you wanna cater to the ”other” type of audience

its really all reeves idea to go the route he did, he said WB only told him that the only thing they want is a PG13 film and gave him little to no restrictions

WB got the DCEU to go nuts on the crazy stuff

 

[CP1708]

Cake and I were discussin "next" today, we talked about Court of Owls where they try to beat on bats while recruiting Bruce at the same time. Penguin could still be involved, maybe even bring in Harley Quinn/Birds of Prey. (Either Margot or recasted) With all the Gotham elite assassins, give kind of a John Wick vibe.

Then the 3rd film could be a Joker/Riddler/Arkham smashup.

 

[WASPS ANDD ASPS]

This ****** British too??

Did not know that

 

[IATT]

This ****** British too??

Did not know that

i got 3 questions

you know he’s in couple Harry Potter movies, right?

how you think that happened?

and where do you think Christian bale is from?

 

[MajinZuub]

 

[vegetaray123]

rataalada should be at 100% right around the time the move hits HBO Max…

 

[WASPS ANDD ASPS]

i got 3 questions

you know he’s in couple Harry Potter movies, right?

how you think that happened?

and where do you think Christian bale is from?

Aint seen Goblet in YEARS. Forgt that was him. Thats the only movie i seen him in.

I knew Bale was British.

 

[x Buddha Bless x]

I also loved the meta commentary of Riddler getting online followers to join in on being mass murderers just cuz the ppl of Gotham have been lied to.

Finally addressing that Batman begat/caused/inspired a lot of his crazy villains was also great. They usually go back and forth on that idea since Gotham was already riddled with crime and corruption with unique personalities.

 

[jaypesoz]

Was there another Batman movie, live-action or animated, where he fails this bad? Riddler pretty much won here and Batman is only half good at Riddles, apparently. I get it, only year 2

 

[rfx45]

crazy to think but we are getting 4 different batmans this year…

 

[tay1]

Cake and I were discussin "next" today, we talked about Court of Owls where they try to beat on bats while recruiting Bruce at the same time. Penguin could still be involved, maybe even bring in Harley Quinn/Birds of Prey. (Either Margot or recasted) With all the Gotham elite assassins, give kind of a John Wick vibe.

Then the 3rd film could be a Joker/Riddler/Arkham smashup.

We need a break from Harley. Like we do from Joker.

 

[kvsm23vs24]

Me Freeze would be awesome. If anyone Can take imagination and make it look real/ believable in a dope way it’s Reeves.

Dude had monkeys interacting and living in a realistic way in that world.
With that sad, i don’t think they are crossing that world of creatures and stuff like that